ANIMAL HOUSES
Theoretical Project
Credits: Michael Sorkin, Kent Hikida
Part of a group of houses dedicated to an investigation
of variations in bilateral morphology, these projects also
embodied a then current interest in zoomorphic shapes.
The series – dog, frog, and aardvark - also includes the
sheep, a more elaborate loft building for designed for a
site in Manhattan. Sheep is one of a number of projects
undertaken by the studio to explore the idea of “resistant”
loft spaces. That is, instead of the paradigm of undifferentiated
space to be sub-divided in use, these projects
examine the greater flexibility inherent in spaces that must
be aggregated to form useful wholes.
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