Set in the year 2100, this speculative project reimagines Detroit’s historic Buhl Building as a hybrid of architecture and living geology. Once a monument to early 20th-century industry, the building is transformed into a fully inhabited Lithogrowth habitat—a new architectural system grown rather than built.

Using programmable bio-mineral materials, walls and partitions are cultivated from a central rock formation that expands organically to shape apartment units and communal spaces. The resulting interior defies traditional floor plates and symmetry, instead forming around pockets of activity and flow.

This adaptive reuse preserves the Buhl’s historic exterior while radically reinterpreting its interior life—blurring the line between structure, nature, and occupant. The project explores what domesticity, materiality, and shared space might look like in a future shaped by both ecological pressure and technological evolution.