1+1+ Architects

New website is up! 💅✨ link in bio ~ Shout out to @morgan_mcpeak for the fresh look 🥝 ✨+ @duaduran for the process & content management 🤓📐

Our Dreamtroit project is featured @rocalondongallery in an exhibition called “Meanwhile Space: What happens when design activates disused buildings?” The exhibition is up until September 27 - so if you are in London, checkit! Co-curators Clare Dowdy and Helen Parton explore how impactful Meanwhile Spaces are through showcasing how different communities from around the globe are turning unused spaces into vibrant places during periods of uncertainty or transition. Visitors are able to browse the history of meanwhile space, pick up a step-by-step guide on how to set up their own and checkout exemplar projects - including Dreamtroit right here in Detroit. A ‘Meanwhile Space’ is the temporary activation of an otherwise vacant place. Ahead of Dreamtroit being developed to what it is today, and under Matt Naimi’s ownership/direction, Dreamtroit was a space for artists, musicians, non-profits and weirdos to play, experiment and build community. Matt even opened @recycleheredetroit out of this space years ahead of thinking about developing the 3.8 acre property. What’s unique to Dreamtroit, is that instead of Matt just selling the buildings and the property when the funds ran out to maintain the property, he looked to coming up with an innovative development model that could keep the art/maker/non-profit community around. Today, it has now become affordable artists’ housing and creative workspaces (including 1+1+’s office), and is partly due to the envisioning, concept design, masterplan and programming we did as the Design Architects for Dreamtroit. The curators collaborated with exhibition designers @stevejensendesign and @skooby31 who used reclaimed materials to build the show’s exhibition framework in a very meanwhile, reuse aesthetic. Very cool exhibition, Thank you all for including @oneplusoneplusoneplusoneplus and celebrating this awesome project! Photography by: Event Photographer London

House+, 1+1+ Architects / Library Street Collective A couple hours of fading north light on this beautiful addition to Little Village. A sign of cooler and shorter days ahead, but a reminder of all that 2026 will bring for this neighborhood on the other end.

Wandering House in @archpaper ! Read more about the project and former partner De Peter Yi’s current research at the link in our profile. Project Team: Design Architect: 1+1+ Architects, Rebuild Collective Architect of Record: Gabriel Armendariz Architecture Team: @mcrilley , Laura Marie Peterson, Peter Yi Structural Engineer: @hdstructural , JKL Structural Landscape Consultant: Sarah Peterson Civil Engineer: Stewart Design and Engineering Geotechnical: Terradyne General Contractor: MZ Construction

Host Theater is the adaptive reuse of an existing church in Southwest Detroit into a theater as community hub comprising a 5,000 SF theater, a fabrication workshop, blackbox theater, artist residence and community gathering and theater support spaces. A Host of People (@ahostofpeople ), a Detroit-based contemporary theater group creating art that is welcoming to all, aims to share the space with artists of all identities, races, cultures, and backgrounds who have a desire to share their art and stories with a diverse audience. Reflecting the org’s mission, multi-colored glass block windows incorporate cross-cultural motifs that reflect different groups of people that call Detroit home are incorporated into the facade, including symbols from the Underground Railroad as well as from Mexican, Palestinian and Middle Eastern cultures. The building’s cornerstone was laid in 1949, and it was once home to the New Light Baptist Church and Burnette Baptist Church. In 1970, Stevie Wonder married singer Syreeta Wright here. The building’s prior owner had been trying to redevelop it for a Mexican dance hall. The building in its current state does not have heating, cooling, plumbing or electric - and much of the design is bringing that up to speed, while also updating the building per new energy codes and making it more universally accessible. AHOP purchased the existing church in late 2024 with the aims of creating space for independent theater companies, small arts organizations and individual performing artists and filmmakers in Detroit. By being an anti-institution institution providing a community theater and neighborhood hub run by artists for artists, the theater will support original art and performances in the city, while also hosting select performances from outside of Detroit to keep that artist community in conversation with our peers nationally and internationally. A Host of People Founders, Boardmembers: Sherrine Azab, Jake Hooker, Dorothy Melander-Dayton Architecture & Design: 1+1+ Architects Theater Design Consultant: Chantel and Charlie Gaidica @ahostofpeople @duaduran @dorothy505 @sherrinea

Host Theater is the adaptive reuse of an existing church in Southwest Detroit into a community theater as community hub comprising a 5,000 SF theater, fabrication workshop, blackbox theater, artist residence and community gathering and theater support spaces. A Host of People (AHOP), a Detroit-based contemporary theater group creating art that is welcoming to all, aims to share the space with artists of all identities, races, cultures, and backgrounds who have a desire to share their art and stories with a diverse audience. Reflecting the org’s mission, multi-colored glass block windows incorporate cross-cultural motifs that reflect different groups of people that call Detroit home are incorporated into the facade, including symbols from the Underground Railroad as well as from Mexican and Arab cultures. The building’s cornerstone was laid in 1949, and it was once home to the New Light Baptist Church and Burnette Baptist Church. In 1970, Stevie Wonder married singer Syreeta Wright here. The building’s prior owner had been trying to redevelop it for a Mexican dance hall. The building in its current state does not have heating, cooling, plumbing or electric - and much of the design is bringing that up to speed, while also updating the building per new energy codes and making it more universally accessible. AHOP purchased the existing church in late 2024 with the aims of creating space for independent theater companies, small arts organizations and individual performing artists and filmmakers in Detroit. By being an anti-institution institution providing a community theater and neighborhood hub run by artists for artists, the theater will support original art and performances in the city, while also hosting select performances from outside of Detroit to keep that artist community in conversation with our peers nationally and internationally. A Host of People Founders, Boardmembers: Sherrine Azab, Jake Hooker, Dorothy Melander-Dayton Architecture & Design: 1+1+ Architects Theater Design Consultant: Chantel and Charlie Gaidica @ahostofpeople @sherrinea @duaduran @dorothy505

Host Theater is the adaptive reuse of an existing church in Southwest Detroit into a community theater as community hub comprising a 5,000 SF theater, fabrication workshop, blackbox theater, artist residence, community gathering and theater support spaces. A Host of People (AHOP), a Detroit-based contemporary theater group creating art that is welcoming to all, aims to share the space with artists of all identities, races, cultures, and backgrounds who have a desire to share their art and stories with a diverse audience. Reflecting the org’s mission, multi-colored glass block windows incorporate cross-cultural motifs that reflect different groups of people that call Detroit home are incorporated into the facade, including symbols from the Underground Railroad as well as from Mexican and Arab cultures. The building’s cornerstone was laid in 1949, and it was once home to the New Light Baptist Church and Burnette Baptist Church. In 1970, Stevie Wonder married singer Syreeta Wright here. The building in its current state does not have heating, cooling, plumbing or electric - and much of the design is bringing that up to speed, while also updating the building per new energy codes and making it more universally accessible. AHOP purchased the existing church in late 2024 with the aims of creating space for independent theater companies, small arts organizations, individual performing artists and filmmakers in Detroit. By being an anti-institution institution providing a community theater and neighborhood hub run by artists for artists, the theater will support original art and performances in the city, while also hosting select performances from outside of Detroit to keep that artist community in conversation with our peers nationally and internationally. A Host of People Founders, Boardmembers: Sherrine Azab, Jake Hooker, Dorothy Melander-Dayton Architecture & Design: 1+1+ Architects Theater Design Consultant: Chantel and Charlie Gaidica @ahostofpeople @dorothy505 @sherrinea @duaduran

Last year, Design Principal Laura teamed up with New School Detroit, a collective of women-led design practice, to collectively present their work @creativemorningsdetroit 🌈💕 Check out the full video at the link in our bio!

💐Celebrating 2025!💐 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ We are blessed to be a part of the Detroit community! In 2025 we connected with community organizations, small business owners, and cultural institutions to envision spaces where people come together around belonging, creative reuse and regenerative landscapes. Our vision for 2026 is to continue fostering community through architectural delight, environmental stewardship, and being beacon of support and trust for our clients. ✨✨✨2025 Highlights✨✨✨ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ (1) Peace Tree Parks Ribbon Cutting Ribbon Cutting (2) Wandering Courtyard House in the @latimes (3) New Website! (4) @metropolismag on The New School! (5) @ahostofpeople in @metrotimes ! (6) House+ and Pocket Park with @anthonycuris and photoshoot with @jasonkeenco (7) On The Metro with the lovely @itstiatime00 and @laurazambora (8) @creativemorningsdetroit with The New School! (9-11) Earthy Details 🌱

Hey! We are excited to be offering free consultation meetings for Detroit start-ups, small businesses, and non-profits through October 3rd! Feel free to share and reach out to us at [email protected]

One of 1+1+’s first projects, Wandering Courtyard House, is featured in the @latimes this week! Co-designed with architect De Peter Yi, structural engineer Halle Doenitz, and artist Yi Kai, the project explores the intersection of architecture and art through a cross-cultural design lens. A conversation between the American backyard and the Asian courtyard, the half-circle wraparound deck creates in-between spaces hovering between indoors and out, looking inward and outward. While the street-facing facade maintains a veiled presence, referencing its typological roots, the backyard opens wide to expansive views of downtown LA. The design subverts residential zoning setbacks—not as limitations, but as opportunities—playfully transforming regulatory constraints into sources of spatial possibility. Throughout, the house reimagines typical residential framing into material assemblies as sculptural elements: an outdoor spiral stair and a half-moon porch balustrade become occupiable sculptures - a spatial choreography that invites all to wander… Thank you @latimes @lisaboone99 for featuring the project! All Photography By: Luke Johnson for the LA Times

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