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Three Acts: A Sonoric Experiment





Codes and standardization have historically ensured the efficiency and safety of building systems. For architects to take those codes and standards at face value without questioning the fundamentals of how they are designed, aggregated, camouflaged and facilitated is a lost opportunity for architecture to inflect the basic elements of the built environment, and to allow us to dream about untethered opportunities for bodies in space.

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Act 1- Water is The Enemy

water, standardization, plumbing system, resource, and how it inspires the thesis to the direction of thinking standardized plumbing pipes becomes an instrumental performing tool









Act 2- The Tyranny of Hygiene

on site waste management system (medium density and dirty experience), reimaging triple decker housing as a set for on site waste management





Act 3- Poop Travels

aggregating the experiment at an urban scale.





Chun-Li (Julie) Chen, 
University of Michigan Taubman College and Urban Planning | Architecture
Adam Chase,
University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance |  Ccomposition & Opera Performance