Tag: Reduce Reuse Recycle
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The Lighthouse Project
The Lighthouse Project is an ongoing ode to reusing and emotional attachment to garments through memories and experiences lived. A garment in particular is in permanent transformation with new embroideries that celebrate every visit to every lighthouse. The generations that have grown with fast fashion all around have lost that vision of long term value…
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Web of Water
The design initiative focuses on creating a nature-inspired water harvesting system to address the critical issue of water scarcity for children in remote areas. The system is designed to eliminate the arduous journeys of Ethiopian children to distant water sources and to provide children with a reliable and accessible water supply all year round, regardless…
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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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In Flux | Tension
In response to rising sea levels, this floating housing project considers the user’s position in a site vulnerable to flooding due to climate change. The design emphasizes supplying clean water and incorporates elements mindful of life underwater. Without tension in the ecosystem, the sole existence of a species is impossible due to the interdependent relationship…
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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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Designing for Twilight Years: Sustainable Senior Living
My design proposal seeks to create harmonious, integrated spaces for elderly communities that promote intergenerational interaction through elements of social sustainability and material sustainability. School of Architecture | Sustainable Environmental Systems, SES Student: Nia Starr Faculty: Tetsu Ohara This image features a design proposal for senior living with a public campus, renewable energy resources, and…
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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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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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Ebb and Flow – Noguchi Showroom
This interior design project for the new Akari light showroom at the Noguchi museum proposes a sustainable cycle for an environmentally conscious retail future. Through selections of bio-materials, including mycelium panels, and the redesign of the use of space, we not only emphasize sustainable practice in the design process, but extend it to the retail…
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A Cultural Urban Instrument – Performative Scapes and Historical Setting: An Indigenous Dialogue
This thesis investigates the intervention of Performative Scapes into historical settings. It aims to initiate a poetic dialogue between the old-new, and the local-global, which imagines, transforms, and re-cultivates places of cultural significance. School of Design | Graduate Interior DesignStudent: Kavya GargFaculty: Neena Freedman The thesis is structured around the exploration of the many different…