COLLECTIVE HOUSING IN SAN FRANCISCO'S SHARING ECONOMY

Clockwork collective is about cohabitation. It looks to explore, challenge, and mitigate San Francisco’s housing crisis by offering a radical proposal for the shared living environment. Utilizing nurses as its local constituency, the design uproots the expectations of private and shared space, inversing their relationship. Within this constituency, two unique schedules exist: day shift workers and night shift workers. Clockwork Collective provides a dwelling where the most intimate space, the bedroom, becomes the shared space between the two inhabitants, yet maintains anonymity of the individual. Clockwork then becomes about larger questions of identity, both in the private and public realm, and the agency of expressing this identity is found in the transition spaces between the bedroom and supporting spaces. The proposed design operates on the premise that “shared” opportunities can be had without ever interacting with the other. Through a mat typology, the residential dwellings support the needs of the individual's privacy, allowing for expression of identity while maintaining a contingent relationship with the other. The design allows for gradual transition spaces to and from the public city realm, a crucial requirement for nurses facing long hours and challenging work environments. Clockwork collective allows for individual anonymity and disengagement in what is typically the most engaging and intimate space. It re-imagines the space in which identity is constructed, both exploring the individual scale and collective realm.