Reconstructing a Sears Home (2026) by Julia Wennerholm is a project study of the wood framing from the Sears Catalog’s Hamilton model. Through a dissection of the Sears old growth lumber, the suburban typology of housing can be rebuilt to accommodate an overlooked demographic of people who are in large need of housing, roommates. The home was originally designed to serve the assembly line lifestyle of a nuclear family, splitting the house to encourage optimization. The house is designed using a “cut and paste” method, preserving the bones of the home, and then introducing new walls at a 45 degree angle. The result are spaces that bleed into one another and a blurring of traditional domestic programing.
