May 28

May 28 381 / Andreas Tsenis: Split

Submission #381 | Andreas Tsenis: Split — “The proposed St. Clair Nature Center explores the concept of a cellular architectural form, primarily exploring the ideas “to Split”. The overall proposal features 7 buildings that are organized programmatically to remain distinct entities while sharing similar relationship together. The overall form was sequentially positioned to follow not only the solar and wind orientation of the site, but also defining the relationship between nature and occupiable spaces through the use of wall extensions and building gaps.”

May 19

May 19 375 / Jonathan Bonezzi and Ryan Lane: Collaged Collections

Maria Flores

students

Submission #375 | Jonathan Bonezzi and Ryan Lane: Collaged Collections — “145,000 sqft. the new art museum at 106-72 marginal street, Boston; culminates contemporary ideas in architecture about allure, collage, and collections as ideological drivers for the spatial and representational design process of the project. thinking about the irresolute and the misaligned and the unknown; the project looked towards contemporary ideas about allure and collage to produce deceptions and irregularities in the project to draw the user in. we pose to question in this post-digital age of architecture what it means to be simultaneously object and field.”

Jul 31

Jul 31 336 / Samira Chahine: Design Before Decline

Maria Flores

students

Submission #336 | Samira Chahine: Design Before Decline — “Throughout years, education has always been considered as one of the most crucial stages of human’s life cycle. Good schools and education environment would be the key to the social and economic development of a place through preparing the future human resources. In other words, how can we expand our society and improve it if we cannot dilate our own minds?”

Dec 27

Dec 27 262_Claudio Triassi: Recycling Past Architectural Ideas and Forms

Maria Flores

students

Submission #262 | Claudio Triassi: Recycling Past Architectural Ideas and Forms — “My illustrations reflect the contemporary architectural drawing tendency to look for its emotional strength in past iconography. They use past architectural ideas and forms to catch their charm offering an anachronistic spatial and temporal dimension and questioning at the same time their validity nowadays. As a result of it, they are in ruins sometimes.”

Mar 21

Mar 21 236_D.K. Wang & Bingxuan Liang: Urban Environmental Form and Feedback

Maria Flores

students

Submission #236 | D.K. Wang & Bingxuan Liang: Urban Environmental Form and Feedback — "in F16 studio, we approached the feedback of the urban environment on the creation of built space by working through a series of inter-connected projects. By using parametric modeling tools (primarily Grasshopper), we generated several formal and environmental strategies that are reflected in the final phase of the project- a residential building complex in Pittsburgh."

Mar 19

Mar 19 233_Madeline Nolan: Expanding Augmentation

Maria Flores

students

Submission #233 | Madeline Nolan: Expanding Augmentation — "Seattle Central Library redefines the library, no longer exclusively dedicated to the book, but as an information store where all potent forms of media are presented, creating a civic space for the circulation of knowledge in all media."

May 19

May 19 158_Joel Wong and Amanda Gunawan: 6 AM

Maria Flores

students

Submission #158 | Joel Wong and Amanda Gunawan: 6 AM — This thesis posits an Architecture in which two antithetical morphological systems are forced to dialogue in order to create a contemporary mixed-use development. It argues for the necessity of the amalgamation of both the top-down and bottom-up method for both assembly and design.

Jan 31

Jan 31 94_Alex Varvar, Advita Madan, Emily McKenna, Zakaria Boucetta: Forresta Vasta

Maria Flores

students

Alex Varvar, Advita Madan, Emily McKenna, Zakaria Boucetta: Forresta Vasta — "Urban redesign of the raildeck in Toronto. Implementing a "vast forrest" with new urban form typologies across the cities skyline. Letting the architecture be influenced by the typologies of the trees and its structural diversity. This project was a group urban design project of “super- studio”. The whole semester is dedicat- ed in urban scale design projects and quick projects where we intervene with a logical concept for sites around Toronto."

Dec 28

Dec 28 58_Adrian Ianetti: Extracted Pods

Maria Flores

students

Adrian Ianetti: Extracted Pods — This semester was focused on creating formal systems through the application of rules. We created our own rules and applied those rules to form space. The final project is a result of hybridizing two separate systems to create a proposal for an architectural folly.