Category: Spring 2023
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TuneIn:52/17
To promote sustainability, it’s crucial to remember that there are no fully sustainable materials. As such, we should focus on developing solutions that align with users’ needs and values. This approach was exemplified in this project that replaced a physical object with a simple Spotify playlist, which encouraged healthy behaviors such as reducing eye strain.…
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Symbiosis with Interiors
This project develops a manifesto with four points of creating sustainable interior design, by evaluating the influence of design interventions on embodied carbon and carbon offset. The interior is designed in a manner that it is a living organism that can respond to its environment, therefore forms a symbiosis with plants and fungi. School of…
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Intertwining Waterfall
Implying environmental sustainability was the ultimate goal for this project. Targeting zero emissions in line with the New York City Mobilization Act, the design would decrease the temperature by at least 5 degrees and dampen noise reflection within the International Living Future Institute office. Exploring the solution by using the selection of yarn, canvas, and…
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Delta
DELTA is an intelligent campus street lamp that uses solar panels to provide clean energy and store it to cope with different weather conditions. It is also equipped with light and motion sensors that automatically adjust the lighting mode according to the surrounding brightness and pedestrian activity. These intelligent features help DELTA address issues such…
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City of the Post-Anthropocene
Industrial infrastructure once defined Red Hook–economically and visually–as the center of commercial shipping in New York City. However, the decline of that industry, as well as the looming climate crisis, has led to questions of how Red Hook can be revitalized and refortified in the 21st century. This project transforms an old cement carrier–the Loujaine–into…
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Visibility
The thesis research aims to design a cultural sustainable center for the undeserved section of the society : women and children focused primarily in India. The concept is an effort to provide them visibility by restoring an endangered site in the midst of a metropolitan city, Mumbai. It incorporates the reuse of earthly materials and…
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Sustainability on a Roof
This project is targeted towards areas of consumption on Pratt Institute’s campus that are currently linear but can become a circular metabolic system including electricity consumption, use of natural waste and water consumption and also provision of green space. The areas of implementation for this project would be Pratt Institute’s Main Campus specifically the Dining…
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Decomposition & Restoration (biomaterials, landscape, and construction waste)
Whereas traditional architecture is a negotiation between building and site, modular architecture fractures the site from factory-built modules. This relationship led us to focus on the impact of construction on the land, and how this one-directional flow of delivered material can fit in with architecture’s evolving role in supporting the environment. We designed biomaterial packaging…
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Stella McCartney – The Present and Future of Fashion
Connecting Stella’s past with her material explorations, visitors get a chance to see all the work come together in her designs through recent years. This space features environmentally friendly materials including benches made from recycled plastic and foam, biodegradable mannequins made from a bioplastic material composed of 72 per cent sugarcane derivatives, and curtains made…
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Urban Farmer Cohousing
Historically, Bedford-Stuyvesant has been considered a food desert. Typically, initiatives that aim to reduce food insecurity are led by outside groups without input from the community, this project proposes increasing quality food access through urban farming at a commercial scale run by and for residents of Bed-Stuy. Our design proposes a ground floor commercial farmer’s…