HOUSE 05

Year: 2021
Location: 3921 - 3925 S. MLK Jr. Drive, Chicago
Status: Completed, for “Architecture of Reparations”
Contributor: Rekha Auguste-Nelson

House 05 presents as a typical set of triple-deckers: aesthetically linked but ultimately siloed.But past the façade, the party walls diverge from the lot lines.

Presumingly standard-issue, stacked units are abruptly unknown upon entry, as each internally negotiates a singular and dramatic spatial give-and-take with its neighbors.

Ultimately these apartments offer a welcome assurance in their camaraderie, a conspiratorial comfort in their secret spatial exchange. They are not readily mappable, nor, furthermore, may the whole be inferred from any part.

Rather, they are totally known only in the collective mind of their owners.