Tag: Biodiversity Conservation
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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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Mobile Homes
This project reveals the intertwined lives of humans and hermit crabs, prompting reflection on our impact: What happens to hermit crabs’ homes and nature as we construct our dream houses? The smaller square book showcases 70+ hermit crab houses. The larger book is a comprehensive guide, delving into hermit crab research, nomadic lifestyles, and sustainable…
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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…
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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…