Category: Spring 2023
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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…
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Bringing New Life To An Old House
Existing buildings are given new life through adaptive reuse interventions that are transformative. The greenest building is the one that already exists, and adaptive reuse provides opportunities for design leadership: being able to make imaginative proposals in existing structures means fewer buildings on greenfields. A rain pit pools water away from trees to ameliorate flooding.…
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ICWC_Bring the Light In
Using sustainable materials, maximizing the natural daylighting by opening the skylight. Also, take the airflow and acoustic control into consideration, providing a comfortable space to meet the clients’ mental health and wellness. School of Design | Graduate Interior Design Student: Yirou Hong Faculty: Tetsu Ohara Analysis of the site daylighting, acoustics control, airflow quality, sustainable…
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Expedition to the Far North & Findings
Expedition to the Far North & Findings is a pair of acrylic paintings responding to the works of naturalist illustrator John James Audubon. The paintings reinterpret one of his popular images, Common Buzzard, through a critical lens. Audubon is recognized as an American symbol for wildlife conservation. Over 500 wildlife organizations in North America are…
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Polaris: A Community VR
The night sky, the backdrop to which humans have always set their gaze in search of meaning and guidance, is reimagined as an interactive virtual reality platform designed to connect people with their communities, values, and ideas. Users can seek out opportunities to serve, education on ideas and initiatives for change, and can also find…
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Ghost in the Machine
The intrinsic phenomenal aspects of Historic Industrial buildings can be developed and incorporated into interiors with a unique capacity to express the values of our present society, ameliorate harm done, and support the human quest for meaning and well-being. School of Design | Graduate Interior Design Student: Junjiao Zhao Faculty: Edwin Zawadski By converting the…
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Modular Living Wall
This is a modular living wall system that challenges the idea of how engaging one can to a building as to how one engage with a film camera as opposed to a detached iPhone. School of Architecture | Graduate Architecture Student: Albert Philip Liu Faculty: Carlos Araniz Diagram that explains how the project wants to…
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Wait…What Does Frenetic Mean?
Coming to a city near you, a social amenity which reimagines the streetscape to accommodate personal electric vehicles and RoboBins–trash collecting robots which will take the trash to a waste-energy plant. Electricity from the plant is used to power work-cafes which double as EV and RoboBin charging hubs. Through a system of power hubs and…
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Sea Shepherd – Repurposing an Abandoned Cargo Vessel
Sea Shepherd is a self-sufficient center and energy hub for maritime research and rehabilitation with educational and recreational spaces and labs, while being a first-response ship for natural disasters as a moving farm, energy and supplies center. The ship travels around the polluted harbors and sea ways of East Coast, to draw attention to the…
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The Wading City
The Wading City comes out of the indeterminacy prevalent in the 2020s, particularly the idea of the city and the building not only as a changing entity but as an adaptable entity addressing rising sea levels, food insecurity, ecological degradation, and local economic downtrends around postindustrial waterfronts. Thus generating an architecture which could respond to…