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Siteless Typologies

The Biotic Diffuser, a teaching and innovation farm lab and student residence in the town of Allensworth, California, draws extensively from the local siteless typologies of Sears home, farm shed, and mobile home, while also expanding upon the ideas put forth by these objects to create sited typologies. The main road of Allensworth runs straight into the site – it is in this sense a collector. Emphasizing this notion by providing a space that faces Allensworth and is open to its residents creates a project that embraces the community, draws people in to stay a while, and diffuses them back out into Allensworth with strengthened bonds to neighbor, town, history, and future.