Some progress... -thx Moley :)

A. HOUSING FOR NOMADS
-new "concept of home"
-people stay in a place for 4 years max... move...
-make new proposals for lifestyle, context, architecture for new character of use

B. HOUSING SERVICES: FRANCHISE / BRANDED HOUSING:
-how do you architecturalize a service, how does the architecture of housing change with the transition to service industry rather than commodity?
-speculate and develop models for recent developments towards nomadism in housing, in which there is a blurring between the real estate markets and hospitality industry. as opposed to traditional models of hotels and real estate we are now seeing the emergence (perhaps resulting from a globalized workforce) of globally franchised serviced apartments and portfolios of partial-ownership properties
-architecturalize this new condition / function for housing.

C. THE AMERICAN DREAM: (sub)URBAN
-examine the cultural forces behind the consumer preference for detached suburban housing.
-"values": more socially focused on "values housing"
-ultimate goal is some architectural proposal (probably housing)
-developing cost-effective housing that attempts to replicate the suburban lifestyle in more dense ways in urban contexts. = INFILL
-or giving a more urban character to suburbs = OUTFILL (in this case, proposal could be civic function, etc.)

D. INFRASTRUCTURE AS ARCHITECTURE, ARCHITECTURE AS INFRASTRUCTURE
-examine the links (conceptual, urbanistic-planning, architectural/physical) between infrastructure and architecture
-new possibilities for integrating infrastructure and architecture (conceptual, urbanistic, architectural/physical)
-reading the opportunities embedded in the city: task: map these spaces in ONE CITY (not a shitload…)
-architecturalizing the left behind spaces
-must look at planning / history issue, but need not be primary interest
-ideas:

• -hong-kong private infrastructure made public (philipino campsites, throughways through malls, skybridges, junkspace) (PRIVATIZED PUBLIC SPACE)
• -like the proposals for repairing Belgrade by exaggerating the condition rather than fixing it
• -naivete of hiding infrastructure
• -oriental city: infrastructure comes as leftover space (or the architecture is the infrastructure), as opposed to European city in which infrastructure defines architectural space (figure-ground reversed)
• -Context 1: MORTGAGE/ENERGY CRISIS -> INFILL / ultra-densification
  
• -INFILL / ultra-densification / infrastructure-oriented strategies (lessons from Hong Kong)
• -Context 2: constructional / modulal / prefab solutions…

E. MASS CUSTOMIZED MANUFACTURED HOUSING
-don't just tack this on to another idea, gotta START with this as part of one of the above ideas