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359 / Dana Barale Burdman: The Net Blvd

359 / Dana Barale Burdman: The Net Blvd

Maria Flores
students

Submission #359 | Dana Barale Burdman: The Net Blvd — “The culture of the archive was produced by memory and destined to remain eternal. Currently, culture is based on a mutable process: the virtual is made up of representations and artificial simulations of the real, in real time. Everything is replicable, editable and expandable. The virtual derive-The new flâneur: The spaces are multiplied to be experienced online. Social networks redefine and restructure the physical space in which we move, our relationship with objects and with others.”

322_Valeria Mazzilli: ORGANIstation

322_Valeria Mazzilli: ORGANIstation

Maria Flores
students

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.”

317_Timothee Mercier and Ian Lee: Bronx Supportive Living & Farming

317_Timothee Mercier and Ian Lee: Bronx Supportive Living & Farming

Maria Flores
students

Submission #317 | Timothee Mercier and Ian Lee: Bronx Supportive Living & Farming — “The housing project is an attempt to bring farming back to the Bronx residents in its current urban context, assimilating urbanism and agriculture – providing a new, intimate proximity with food. Empowering residents with a self-sustaining nutritional and financial system. A form of supportive housing, a new age of housing.”

304_Andrea Cappiello: Monastic Archive

304_Andrea Cappiello: Monastic Archive

Maria Flores
students

Submission #304 | Andrea Cappiello: Monastic Archive — “The word ‘archive’ generally indicates a working system structured towards the efficient recall of items. This idea of a predominantly passive collection changes when buildings are involved because a work of architecture can be argued to be an existing archive. This understanding further shifts the perceptions concerning the manner in which archives are presented.”

293_Sergey Nadtochiy: Seductive Ecologies

293_Sergey Nadtochiy: Seductive Ecologies

Maria Flores
students

Submission #293 | Sergey Nadtochiy: Seductive Ecologies — “Because of large number of public buildings including universities, hotels and hospitals, Bloomsbury has one of highest wasted heat rates in London. Therefore this area has been chosen to test new ways of heat resources use and mediation proposed in this project of an art school. The site of the project takes space of former district heating system on Coram street next to Brunswick centre and is marked by 40m high concrete chimney, underground Piccadilly line which crosses the site is also used as one of heat resources.”

280_Moritz Spaeh: Urban Farming

280_Moritz Spaeh: Urban Farming

Maria Flores
students

Submission #280 | Moritz Spaeh: Urban Farming — “The newly emerging commercial and industrial district is based on the former industrial area. In order to give the building in the north a representative address, the existing halls were demolished and the market hall was pushed between the existing buildings. From the east, a long, narrow lane leads to the market hall.”

278_Settawut Leenavong: Prasiolite State

278_Settawut Leenavong: Prasiolite State

Maria Flores
students

Submission #278 | Settawut Leenavong: Prasiolite State — “Prasiolite State, or a "Green Crystals of Bangkok" is an experiential, experimental and ecological architecture project done by Chulalongkorn university undergraduate, Settawut Leenavong. The project explores the characteristic of crystal formation, polygons and various connection of molecular joints. Prasiolite takes the inspiration from the name of green crystals which form inside the gas cavity of lavas. The exterior hard shells were able to protect the enclosed interior from the intervention of physical environment.”

253_Stefan Burnett: MIT Interstitial Housing

253_Stefan Burnett: MIT Interstitial Housing

Maria Flores
students

Submission #253 | Stefan Burnett: MIT Interstitial Housing — “MIT Interstitial Housing looks to solve the harsh divide of academics and student living spaces through the use of interstitial open spaces, both housing and academics live off of one another. This new building typology aims to create a healthier balance between academics and student living.”

211_Celdin Fajardo: L-Nergy

211_Celdin Fajardo: L-Nergy

Maria Flores
students

Submission #211 | Celdin Fajardo: L-Nergy — "The aim of this project is to develop a material health monitoring system and demonstrate its capability to qualitatively and quantitatively assesses the performance of material in service. Light, Sound, and thermal that can detect and access the health of a user and improve life-threatening illnesses."

177_Marine De Carbonnieres: McGill Architecture

177_Marine De Carbonnieres: McGill Architecture

Maria Flores
students

Submission #177 | Marine De Carbonnieres: McGill Architecture — "She imagines "subversive encounters" in a project on the relationship between public and private realms. She envisions a series of bathhouses inserted into Montreal's subway system. She explores the notions of voyeurism and intimacy, carving out baths in the underground limestone.

158_Joel Wong and Amanda Gunawan: 6 AM

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.

135_Stanley Tan Hanjie: The Lot

135_Stanley Tan Hanjie: The Lot

Maria Flores

Submission #135 | Stanley Tan Hanjie: The Lot — "The Lot: Communal Social Housing Scheme for a Garden Community and Farmers’ Market. The project studies the theme of urban-suburbanisation, calculated efficiency of a self-sustainable urban infrastructure and the design of a rural retreat. Living units are integrated into a living canopy which is used to grow organic vegetables and also works as a rainwater harvester and irrigation system. A food market is also provided for the public."

128_Phillip Goodbread and James Jackson: IL NEXU

128_Phillip Goodbread and James Jackson: IL NEXU

Maria Flores
students

Submission #128 | Phillip Goodbread and James Jackson: IL NEXU — The proposed project is a result from the analyzation of the social and physical experience of Vicenza’s rivers. Relating the existing context, we unveiled a fractured pedestrian system with an inconsistent fabric of connectivity with the city periphery.

109_Jasper Gregory: Vanishing Indexicality

109_Jasper Gregory: Vanishing Indexicality

Maria Flores
students

Submission #109 | Jasper Gregory: Vanishing Indexicality — The task of this project was to choose an original floor plan of a house, index it via diagrams, then transgress the diagrams into a 3D model. The requirements also consisted of choosing a dress from the designer Issey Miyake, produce drawings and then create a 3D digital model.

101_Mary A. Alvarez: Architecture of Metanoia

101_Mary A. Alvarez: Architecture of Metanoia

Maria Flores
students

Submission #101 | Mary A. Alvarez: Architecture of Metanoia: A Study of Space and the Transformation of Consciousness — The current state of our collective consciousness creates in our surrounding the physical manifestation of a world prioritized and driven by economic forces. Our capitalist system encourages a culture of endless consumption, and disregards that our natural environment is the most essential resource for our continuing survival; we are facing an awareness crisis in addition to the environmental one.

45_Vlad Daraban: Island

45_Vlad Daraban: Island

Maria Flores
students

Vlad Daraban: Island — The project is situated in Paris, on a very thin artificial island -Ile aux Cygnes-, created in 1827 in order to protect the Port de Grenelle. The idea was to explore a dynamic realm, where nothing is actually installed...

2_Aikaterini Paitazoglou and Cameron Reid: All This Space!

2_Aikaterini Paitazoglou and Cameron Reid: All This Space!

Maria Flores
students

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.