Infilling the Missing Middle: Leveraging Scripting Tools to Identify Small-Scale Odd Lots

Exploring the infill housing capacity of small-scale oddly shaped lots to address cities’ demand for the “missing middle,” this paper documents the methods and results of a Spring 2023 second-year Master of Architecture studio. The studio leveraged small-scale odd lots to provide innovative housing solutions for downtown urban areas. The investigation frames the development of digital cartographic tools as a way to disrupt the lack of housing options in many cities today. Students in this course developed custom mapping tools that analyzed GIS data and shape metrics to locate a set of parcels for testing and applying architectural strategies at an urban scale.

https://doi.org/10.35483/ACSA.AM.112.63

Volume Editors
Germane Barnes & Blair Satterfield

ISBN
978-1-944214-45-6