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MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS FOR VACANT BUILDINGS AND STRUCTURES As a way to study and understand the regulations for vacant buildings, an object was created that fulfills the minimum code requirements for vacant structures under Detroit property ordinances
BUILDING DEMOLITION If a home is vacant for five consecutive years and not maintained to code, the structure is considered a blighted property. The building has deteriorated to the point where restoration is unreasonable. Blighted properties are hi
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DUSTIFICATION PROCESS A new speculative demolition technique, demolition by dustification, was created to re-imagine the future of building materials in vacant structures using aspects of existing removal techniques. Demolition by dustification is
DUSTIFIED BUILDING COMPONENTS Each element of a 1,500 sq. ft. three-bedroom house was drawn and calculated for its volume as compacted particles. This allows for a spatial comparison of each building component as typically perceived and post-dustif
SPATIAL RECONFIGURATION The demolition by dustification process physically expands and compacts building materials as dust particles producing new spatial realities from an obsolete structure. The fantastical re-imaging of a vacant house from a sim
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