Photograph by Michael Trummerkind
Mall Living
Artist Michael Townsend and his wife, Adriana Yoto, lived in a 750-square-foot space, rent-free, for four years. The Providence, R.I., couple managed to build an apartment inside the parking garage of a mall, all the while evading mall personnel and security.
Thirty-six-year-old Michael Townsend and Adriana Yoto, 29, unofficially (and illegally) established a residence within Providence Place, a behemoth shopping and entertainment complex. In 2003, they took over an empty 750-square-foot storage room, which was walled off on three sides, in the mall’s parking garage.
With the help of ...
Get Make: Technology on Your Time Volume 14 now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
