Finding Our Way Home: Establishing Community, Enhancing Belonging

Hadiya Bynoe-Seabron // Adviser: Helen Joo

Finding Our Way Home: Establishing Community, Enhancing Belonging

Through understanding and defining the multifaceted idea of home, this thesis explores designing living spaces that connect people to place.  In this case, connection to place is established through two methods – enhancing a sense of community and allowing for user autonomy.  Focusing on a group of nineteenth-century rowhouses in Philadelphia’s Sharswood neighborhood, this project aims to emphasize the importance of home, community, and belonging in an area where there has been a history of displacement.