Sabotaging Suburbia

The contemporary suburban house does not facilitate social interaction or communal relationships, instead aiming to isolate its occupants and exclude those who do not conform to the pretense of ownership, privacy, and consumption. As suburbia keeps encapsulating and privatizing communal typologies within its manicured boundaries it further persuades homeowners to maintain and fill their houses with hyper specific technologies of convenience. When each new space is grafted onto the house, an additional barrier of separation is introduced to the pile of excess and economic burdens. Within the Capitalist market, the house has evolved into an investment with complete disregard for the evolving needs of contemporary society thus severing the connection to its occupants, creating a self-sustaining hyperreality enshrined by imagery and media resulting in stagnant means of dwelling unyielding to any alternative. Through evaluating suburbia’s mechanisms of sustaining its hyperreality, an alternative architecture can be introduced that sabotages the illusion.