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Assemble the Revolution

Part 2 Project 2025
Samuel Pierce
Sheffield Hallam University | UK
ASSEMBLE functions as a site-specific case study emerging from broader inquiries into replicable programmatic and spatial strategies for co-housing interventions that respond to social and spatial inequalities.

Rooted in the framework of participatory design, ASSEMBLE translates defined categories—Living, Rehabilitation, Education, Integration, and Support—into built interventions aimed at addressing the systemic challenges of homelessness. The proposal seeks to ensure access to the rights of both material and immaterial resources to reframe housing beyond shelter towards a foundational platform of autonomy, dignity, and personal development.

The project’s design embodies a layered approach to social infrastructure and individual agency. At its base, a community plinth provides a robust and inclusive programme of shared resources and social interaction. Above this, community-developed housing modules are individually designed by users to reflect their specific moment-in-time needs, enabling architecture to evolve organically through self-authorship over time.

If demonstrated to be effective, the model seeks to extend beyond its initial site, operating as a prototype for a broader network of satellite locations across Lille and the wider Nord region of France. In doing so, it would establish interconnected infrastructures of care and support for marginalised communities.

Crucially, the design is intentionally conceived as an adaptive and iterative system, responsive to shifting needs and socio-political pressures. As such, the current proposal represents only one temporal iteration—an evolving strategy that remains in a continual process of becoming.


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