CHAPTER 01
Introduction
Statement Shifting models of living, values, and digital information in recent years have created space for new ownership possibilities in domestic collectives. Through the development of a model of shared infrastructure, this thesis explores collective living with digital information. The project expands a definition of consolidation and distribution by critically repositioning existing modernist models of domesticity in favor of shared ownership between the ground, individual, and built environment. Context 2.5 Quintillion bytes of information are created every day. There are 4.66 billion internet users whose individual information is stored across numerous data centers. There are 2,506 housing cooperatives in Manhattan New York, which does not account for the number of buildings or number of residents. $1,640 is the estimated value of Seward Park Cooperatives collective information with no incentive. With incentive that number is infinitely higher. These statistics seemingly random characterize an age, place, and value which together construct a context and an architecture. This context and architecture are as undefined as possible where each take on new sites to intervene. The over arching theme of these statistics and our context is media and information and how they exchange with and change the ways in which we live and the built environment. New models of living are no stranger to architecture. Namely the modernists and post WWII economics developers and city officials. Modern values clashed with capitalist pressures to consume,
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