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Submission #322 | Valeria Mazzilli: ORGANIstation — “Each year 350.000 to 500.000 people die for liver diseases. Microgravity has advanced the field of tissue engineering, including liver tissue faster growth and regeneration, the three dimensional cultivation of hepatocytes cells enhancing their aggregation. OrganiStation orbits on LEO, its design facilitates the flow of incoming patients and those who are ready to depart.”
Submission #321 | Justin Heu: Prototype II: Kinetic Facade — “This project is a kinetic shading device that can drastically reduce interior heat automatically. Using Grasshopper, and Arduino.”
Submission #290 | Justin Heu: Density n Void — “A brief focus into designing a new urban mixed use building... residential, commercial, office space. Redesigning what we formally know about a building and warping it inside out. Residential units are encapsulated into tunnel like voids that face each other and can hide away with privacy smart glass.”
Submission #224 | Amer Habib: The New (in)Formal: Vertical Village Habitat — "a conceptual supposition addressing the issues of urban density and pollution. Conceived as a high-rise microcosm of the city, the habitat is located in Dhaka, Bangladesh, one of the most densely populated cities in the world, with over 17 million people."
Submission #219 | Peter Hsi: Inner Skyline — "Gentrification in Brooklyn have transformed the cultural representation by inviting and enriching the thinking of a better life. Carrying on with that new development in Brooklyn, I believe these changes needs to happen in a much smaller scale."
Submission #115 | Greg Sheward: RISE — New York City’s population has continuously been on the rise, expected to reach 9 million people over the next 23 years. The need for affordable housing is playing a predominant roll in this growth. This increasing need for housing provides an opportunity for housing to play a prevailing role in the advancement of architecture. Housing has fallen victim to the standardization of the New York City building code.
Andres Roncal: Grand Hall Freshman Dormitory — "The proposed program is meant to burst the bubble in which Pratt students are forced to live in and give public space back to the landscape of the city. By mapping the public parks around the area it became evident that there were only two public parks available to the immediate community. Fort Green Public Park and Pratt Institute's Sculpture Park; the latter gated and limited to no public access. This segregation was reflected in the lack of understanding for the students to their surroundings which then increased the naive self exposure to crime in the area."
Yeshu Tan: Kindergarten — The central concept of this project is the “performance” of kindergarten. I explored new spatial conditions in the sloping site where kids can walk from the inside classroom to the roof by stairs in order to appreciate the beautiful sea and the skyline of Manhattan.“One of the most fundamental issues a society faces is how to best educate it’s children.
Sawinya Chavanich: Iridescent Light — Iridescent Light is the project that is trying to explore the relationship between hybrid objects and lighting conditions. Each piece of small object is deliberately selected, transformed and adjusted to create the harmony and iridescent phenomena effect.
Graham Rose: Shifting Spirals — Essentially we had to create a folly that was semi habitable for people or any creature depending on your design. We had to utilize two design approaches that we had been working with all semester. The project was initially limited to an 18’x18’x18’ cube but we were allowed to break the barrier if it was necessary and made sense.
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.
Edward Radev: Homi(num)reditus — The gallery spaces from the original proposal and new proposal will intertwine to create a transition between two worlds. The academy itself is set in the near future where extraterrestrial life is being explored. The academy being a center for research of extraterrestrial plant species and how they can be used to create architecture that can be grown.
Peter Hsi: History of Syncopation — The project is a design for Columbia University Boathouse at the edge of Manhattan island, Spuyten Duyvil Creek. The architecture is constantly under the influence of the natural environment, and the development of the buildings of Columbia sports department.
Aikaterini Paitazoglou and Cameron Reid: All This Space! — “All This Space!” is a critique on the housing system today. It is a unique take on zoning as a technique of growth. R1 zoning will be reinvented promoting varied architecture, density, use of all that space in the in between zone. It is a technique that the redefined zoning will promote a slow pace of development and a comment on the housing system today.
