Category: School of Architecture
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New York Botanic Garden Oasis
NYBG Oasis offers urban dwellers an eco-friendly gardening experience, fostering green spaces in the concrete environment of New York. The kit, crafted from recycled materials, includes biodegradable seed cards and compacted soil promoting plant growth and biodiversity. The wooden box, sourced from sustainable forests, doubles as a reusable planter, contributing to waste reduction and recycling,…
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The Nature’s Touch
The Nature’s Touch is a set of bathroom product. Inspired by nature, it is made of cork and utilizes various properties of this eco-friendly material, such as water resistance, friction, and flexibility. The Nature’s Touch includes an organizer, a bath mat, soap boxes, and a towel rack. While embracing the natural characteristics of cork, this…
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Designing for Twilight Years: Sustainable Senior Living
My design proposal seeks to create harmonious, integrated spaces for elderly communities that promote intergenerational interaction through elements of social sustainability and material sustainability. School of Architecture | Sustainable Environmental Systems, SES Student: Nia Starr Faculty: Tetsu Ohara This image features a design proposal for senior living with a public campus, renewable energy resources, and…
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Mapping Myself
For this project we were tasked with identifying and evaluating the various systems on a map of our daily lives. This portion looks at the Pratt campus and my life in the surrounding neighborhood. School of Architecture | Undergraduate Architecture Student: Vaughn Corson Faculty: Rafael De Balanzo Joue Systematic ThinkingSystems within the confines of the…