While the individual competition entries focus on maximizing the possibilities for inhabiting a small space, the exhibition design provides a more general and abstract framework, focusing on the minimum constraints, and asking the question: How much space does it take to make a home? The exhibition compares a variety of living spaces: for instance, a New York City studio, a monk’s cell in France, a budget hotel room, and a suburban house. By reducing these spaces to numbers and volumes, the exhibition confronts visitors with a question of value: is it quantity or quality that makes a home? Visitors weave through the exhibition, experiencing with their bodies the parameters of each kind of living space. Information about the scale and contexts of these living spaces, Common Ground, the competition entries, as well as the history of the Bowery and low-income housing development, are woven into the display through a clear and simple graphic strategy. Designed in collaboration with Jolie Kerns.