All tagged sustainability
Submission #379 | Maya Menashe and Adriane Magadia: Pocket Depot — “This is a Co-Living/ Co-work apartment complex that serves to house post-graduate students of the universities within The City of Newark, keeping young professionals in the city that is on the rise. This building also serves as a workshop, art exhibit, and marketplace that is open to the public and welcomes them. The pocket depot is calling all creators, artists, makers, inventors, as well as young professionals to come and take advantage of all this building has to offer them.”
Submission #326 | Zoe Russian Moreno: Ka' Poy Yepü — “Canaima National Park - Venezuela, is one of the largest natural reserves on the planet and possess definitive characters that differentiate it from other natural reservoirs. It’s soil dates back to the Precambrian period, between 1.5 million to 2 billion years old; which makes it one of the most ancient rock formations in the world's geochronology. These unique formations called “Tepuis” are a kind of table-top mountains with 90-degree vertical walls.”
Submission #169 | François-Luc Giraldeau: Contemporary Monuments, an Architecture of Frugality — "A bare-bones reclamation of three derelict International Style buildings, this project offers a timely architectural appendage which uses twenty-first-century thinking on urbanism, sustainability, and architecture’s social role to reinvigorate a failed utopia from the past."
Submission #112 | Mo Faul: Tale of Two Cities — This was a 10 week studio project based in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The first half of the studio focused on developing a schematic master plan for a specific area in San Juan that covers both entrances into the shantytown the site just outside of the old fortification wall. The challenge with this project was to honor both 'sides' of San Juan, the old colonial city (Old San Juan) and the shantytown (La Perla).
