Tag: Circular Design/Economy
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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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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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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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Adaptive Reuse: 1800s Barn | Contemporary Marketplace
Located in a town where historic colonial homes about contemporary tech offices, an underutilized barn in the center of town offers a unique opportunity for the collaboration of old meets new in the town of Westford, MA. Through circular design strategies, a proposal for a bi-weekly market for local rotating vendors suggests a merging of…
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Circularity: Fostering Opportunities Through a Circular Economy in a Live-Work Space
School of Design | Graduate Interior DesignStudent: Pravallika Thirumalasetty Collage of the proposed site with the water and water systems depicted to show the circular nature and distribution of systems vertically through the building. Using watercolor paint, the subtlety of the flow of water waste is depicted through the floors which people populate the building…