Tag: Environmental Justice
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Floating House Design – Submarine Planter
Napeague Harbor is a coastal lagoon on Long Island, New York, containing salt marshes and mudflats that support fish, shellfish, and birds. However, it is threatened by pollution, habitat loss, and overfishing, and efforts are underway to protect and restore its ecosystem. The client needed to build a home that would be moved on the…
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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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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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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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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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Oyster House: Reclaiming Pre-colonial Landscape Narratives
Oyster House critiques the history of colonialism and land appropriation which occurred during Dutch Colonial expansion in 17th-18th century Brooklyn by bringing forward pre-colonial narratives and asserting indigenous presence often obscured in mainstream historical discourse. By unearthing historical landscapes tied to indigenous narratives and presence, a kinetic midden is exhumed and activated within a Dutch…
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Around the Clock
School of Design | Graduate Interior DesignStudent: Zhen Li The project converts idle parking garages into affordable housing, thereby solving the housing crisis in big cities. Redefining the temporal boundaries and contingencies of interior space can transform machine-centric civil infrastructure from an instrument of class stratification to a humane environment of socioeconomic inclusion. The project…