ROBERT FERGUSON

I'm a dual-degree MARCLA student studying architecture and landscape architecture at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. I currently hold a SSHRC Canada Graduate Scholarship, and a MARCLA Major Entrance Award.

I have 3+ years professional experience as a computational designer with IBI/Arcadis, where I developed advanced parametric models for equitable, sustainable urban systems.

While at school, I work as a graduate teaching and research assistant. Ongoing projects include an AI-integrated site-analysis teaching tool, and a study of spatial justice in urban parks.

I am currently investigating resource circularity and building-integrated agriculture as part of an applied research project led by Perkins&Will.

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robertiainferguson@gmail.com

604-213-9233
SUPERCOMMON!

FALL 2023

ARCH 520: Against Alienation Studio

INSTRUCTOR: Matthew Soules

COLLABORATOR: Victor Sarzynski
SUPERCOMMON is a bold reimagining of collective living that rejects the social isolation, financialization, and unaffordability of conventional housing. Instead, SUPERCOMMON proposes a new relationship between private and shared, where residents enjoy spaces of common luxury for most domestic activities, while retaining options for personal refuge and ultimate privacy.

Individual private space is minimized within compact, beautiful, and highly personal ‘Solars’, themselves set within a dense matrix of ‘Commons’, each a large living room shared between familiar neighbours. All other domestic activities occur in the ‘SuperCommon’, a large, contiguous series of shared luxury spaces, each with spatial and architectural qualities tailoured to its particular programmatic needs.

SUPERCOMMON is not as radical as it seems. The project in fact draws on the social and architectural dynamics of several well-documented typologies, from the ancient to the contemporary. Among them are the Longhouse (a house for a village, shared across cultures), the medieval Solar (a luxury bedchamber for European nobility), the Minimum Dwelling (Hannes Meyer’s Co-op Room, Le Corbusier’s La Tourette), and the Micro-Private (capsule hotels, SROs, micro-apartments, tiny-homes).




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