Human Being Design Information

Human Being Design is a transdisciplinary practice at the intersection between individual and environ. We engage in both self-initiated and commissioned projects, including: housing, installations, everyday items, and memorial artifacts. Human Being Design straddles two concurrent domains of concern: (X) We are subject to the economic realities inherent to a service-based practice oriented towards a working class clientele. Our architectural practice centers on modest, thoughtful housing and communal spaces for both the masses and the marginalized, with an emphasis on material and spatial sensitivity, clean construction, and above all, meaningful habitation for the occupant — our foremost constituent. (Y) We have an interest in speculative, internally discursive, and sometimes esoteric subject matter that falls outside of the zone of the conventional profit motive. Our design research is focused on novel means of anthropomorphic form-making, fabrication, and materiality, using fundamentally human tools, methods, and sources to explore, subvert, or dissolve the Enlightenment-era bifurcation between human and environment. (X+Y) Both avenues of inquiry investigate modes of contemporary cohabitation, identity expression, and material embodiment, and share the tenet that every human is deserving of both a private space and a public expression.