Stephen Andenmatten
ARCH-4980.2 | Julia Watson, Assistant Professor ECOAGRICULTURE ZOOFARI STEPHEN ANDENMATTEN How can assisted wildlife migration be implemented into a fragmented landscape to protect and sustain biodiversity, and promote biocultural diversity through the adaptation to climate change? By protecting and expanding preservation areas pole-ward across latitudes, cooler zones such as high elevation corridors and southern slopes […]
Shima Miabadi
ARCH-4980.4 | Ted Ngai, Lecturer REGENERATIVE TOURISM Reinventing Social Order with Mobile Networks SHIMA MIABADI Urban metabolism is the conservation and expansion process of a specific system through the evaluation of energy intake and the waste generated within an environment. The analysis that is derived from this evaluation will demonstrate and suggest methods in which […]
Pauline Barkin
ARCH-4980.1 | Chris Perry, Assistant Professor APPLIANCE ARCHITECTURE Transformation and Technological Advancement PAULINE BARKIN Challenging the post war notions of disposability, appliNserts render a new typology of self-sufficient and portable architecture that rethinks the process of both restoration and economic renewal in Troy. During the post war period, appliances had a transformative effect on society. […]
Paula Rand
ARCH-4980.4 | Ted Ngai, Lecturer AQUATECTONICS Connecting Water and Dwelling in Informal Dhaka PAULA RAND Water is not a basic human right; water is a naturally occurring necessity, flowing through our earth connecting living and non-living things. At this moment in our history, 75% of the world lives in dense deltaic regions on coasts and […]
Michael Kehoe
ARCH-4980.4 | Ted Ngai, Lecturer [SLUM]SCAPE Redefining the Favela MICHAEL KEHOE As the megacity of Rio de Janeiro continues to grow at an astonishing rate, the lack of flat, developable land continues to be a pressing issue. Since the city’s colonization by the Portuguese in the 1500’s, the urban development of Rio de Janeiro has […]
Marissa Fabrizio
ARCH-4980.4 | Ted Ngai, Lecturer AERIAL CITY MARISSA FABRIZIO In the deltaic region of Shanghai, rapid urbanization has created “market” driven planning, forcing the relocation of the low and middle class to the outskirts of the city and causing the destruction of the natural elements that have mitigated annual flooding patterns. Each year the Huangpu […]
Kyle Baumgardner
ARCH-4980.1 | Chris Perry, Assistant Professor GRAYS FERRY A New Bio-Industrial Parkscape KYLE BAUMGARDNER Philadelphia is in the midst of an identity crisis. Over the last century, Philadelphia and its surrounding metropolitan area have been the leading refiners of petroleum products on the east coast; being home to half of the refineries in this region. […]
Kieran Martin
ARCH-4980.1 | Chris Perry, Assistant Professor SOFT MEGASTRUCTURE Stitching Detroit’s Urban Voids KIERAN MARTIN This research uses the post-war avant-garde trend of Megastructure as a lens into the coupling of science and design that informed the performance and aesthetics of sixties paper architecture. Though easy to discount as a fashion, Megastructure contained innovative and technically […]
Katheryn Czub
ARCH-4980.1 | Chris Perry, Assistant Professor THE ARCHITECT IS A CAVE MAN KATHERYN CZUB “Man started with two basic ways of controlling environment: one by avoiding the issue and hiding under a rock, tree, tent or roof (this led ultimately to architecture as we know it) and the other by actually interfering with the local […]
Jillian Crandall
ARCH-4980.3 | Carla Leitao, Adjunct Professor THE SENTIENT EVENT Establishing a Reflexive Ecology JILLIAN CRANDAL For decades, the Olympic games have been used as leverage in cities to generate tourism and to fund infrastructural developments. In actuality, the event more often leaves a disproportionate amount of damage in its wake – environmentally, financially, and infrastructurally. […]