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Sacred Turn: Investing in architecture’s unstable, yet persistent, notion of the sacred
Text, Textile, and Social Texture - Reimagining Malcolm Shabazz Harlem Market
Facilitating the communal reorganization of Malcolm Shabazz Harlem Market and its surrounding blo…
The People’s Bathhouse and Plumbers’ Liberation School
The People’s Bathhouse and Plumbers’ Liberation School transforms the historic IRT Powerhouse int…
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New Programs, New Technologies + Topologies
Capturing Light, Liberating Lives: New Façade System Using New Material for Energy and Housing Equity
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How to live in Paris in 2100
Domestic Atmospheres
This architectural project addresses Paris’s climate challenges in 2100 by focusing on thermal em…
Cool Greens: A Growing Culinary School
In 2100 Paris, where temperatures are projected to rise by 4°C, this cooling culinary house offer…
Free Cooling Hammock Tower
Inspired by vertically stacked hammocks, the building scaffolds (rather than encloses) discretize…
Climatic recomposition of a building in Paris
In near future, new techniques of heat protection, dispersal and cooling will have to be implemen…
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Unsettling Architecture and the Instabilities of Modernity
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Scaled: Carbon Removal Architecture
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Animist Algorithm: Harlem After Property
Housing After Property
Housing is a human right. What does it take socially, economically, and architecturally to make t…
(IN)BETWEEN ARCHITECTURE
After its closure in 1979, Harlem’s Renaissance Ballroom remained abandoned for over 30 years. Le…
Memory & Matter: Harlem African Burial Grounds
In 2016, archaeological excavations at the 126th Street MTA Bus Depot uncovered over 100 fragment…
The Record
Lenox Lounge is a refuge, a space that people return to repeatedly for its comforting familiarity…
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Building on Buildings: Archive for Architecture on Governors Island
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Superconducting Super Collider: A Thought Experiment
Sown with the Wind, Live as a Rock
This project reimagines living in the existing Shaft Area ‘N40’ of the Superconducting Super Coll…
Superconducting Super Collider
Our general strategy is to take advantage of all shafts and the underground tunnel to create a co…
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Enacting our Material Entanglements: Venice’s Galeazze dell’Arsenale as a Site of Production / Site of Exchange
Il Pescario di Venezia: The Fishing Aquarium of Venice
To honor the historical significance of fishing in the Venetian Lagoon, I developed a museum and …
VENICE CENTER FOR NAUTICAL ARCHEOLOGY | CENTRO DI ARCHEOLOGIA NAUTICA DI VENEZIA
The history of Venice is rooted in the maritime. How do we know about this history when few if an…
Dual Fissure
The Arsenale is the earliest large-scale industrial area in history. Galeazze, as the shipyard in…
“Deep Eye” - Venice Boat Museum
Intensifying the conflict between the new and the old, the new design both repels and intertwines…
Tales on Puppet Truss
Tales on Puppet Truss explores the entanglement of history and modernity, chaos and control. Thro…
Unearthing the Galeazze
The proposal aims to preserve the Galeazze at the Venetian Arsenale by unveiling the wooden piles…
Experimental Preservation of the Galeazze at the Arsenale di Venezia
This experimental preservation project aims to preserve and revitalize the vacant Galeazze—a monu…
Understanding Through Preserving, Study on Materials: Cocciopesto & Marmorino
The aging of materials and the evocation of nature’s effect on the masonry is prevalent at the Ga…
Workshop/Museum for Traditional Venetian Building Craft
The workshop and museum are dedicated to preserving the traditional crafts of Venetian architectu…
The World (Still) Needs Water
Set within the historic Galeazze in Venice’s Arsenale complex, this experimental preservation pro…
Venice Center for Maritime Training
The Venice Center for Maritime Training pays homage to the history of the Arsenale and the rich h…
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Melting Archives: Preserving, Registering and Reimagining the Arctic’s Future
Coral Bank in the Artic: Cold-Water Corals as Architects of Marine Biodiversity
Cold-water corals are important ecosystem engineers, creating biodiversity hotspots in the deep s…
Arctic Plastic Archive: Severity and Potential
This project aims to design a plastic research and archive center in Ny-Ålesund, Svalbard, to doc…
The Distant Past
Erratics are rocks transported and deposited by glaciers, distinct from their surrounding bedrock…
Arctic is not silent
This project explores the changing soundscape of the Arctic. Unlike visual materials, sound offer…
Botanical Archive in the Arctic: Tundra Plants and Pollinators, from Temporal Outposts to Botanical Corridors
Project by Mario Paula Rico
A Small Element with Profound Impact
Salt, often seen as a modest material, plays a pivotal role in shaping ecosystems, cultures, and …
Tracking Dust
This project focuses on designing a research facility in Greenland that archives atmospheric dus…
Archiving Tundra Landscape: From the Small Leaves to Horizon
This is a tundra landscape archiving project. Ten researchers gather during the summer, under twe…
Archiving the Invisible
“Archiving the Invisible” is a multistep architectural project that reflects on the impact of glo…
Words are Slipping through the Cracks
The Inuit of Igloolik have an intimate knowledge of the territory that surrounds them. Moving saf…
A Thawing Landscape
As climate change is becoming increasingly harmful, the Arctic is facing drastic changes. The pe…
The Live Archive of the Arctic
Experiment 1.0: From the microalgae to the bowhead whale.
Ice algae and snow algae are playing…
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Homing Studio Brief
PermaNest
Chelsea is one of the most dynamically evolving neighborhoods in New York City, located at the he…
Folium & Familia
The confrontation between the Fulton community tenants and NYCHA’s demolition plan has reached an…
Anchoring Chelsea
Anchoring Chelsea dives into the socio-political ties and motivations of developers, politicians,…
A Place Called Home - Community Identity and Sense of Belonging through Placefulness
As the tides of gentrification sweep through Chelsea, the long-standing residents of NYCHA housin…
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Wet Land
NYC as a Vernal Pool: Re-thinking Nuisance Flooding
“NYC as a Vernal Pool: Re-thinking Nuisance Flooding” explores the potential of nuisance flooding…
Entangled Shorelines: Braiding Found Materials to Protect the Saltmarsh
Entangled Shorelines: Braiding Found Materials to Protect the Saltmarsh proposes a living shoreli…
The Mussel at the End of the World
Although designated a Superfund site in 2010 and restricted as a site of contamination, the Gowan…
Terrapin Bay
This project reimagines the lands through the perspective of the diamondback terrapin, a keystone…
Little Wetland
Our project is a re-imagination of Little Island, which examines the existence of urban ecology a…
In the Wet-like: NYC’s Nightlife Ecstasy Reimagined after Floods
Since the rise of New York’s concrete jungles, embodying mainstream masculinity with their rigid …
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Migrating Climates in the Immigrant City
Migrating Books and Bodies
In architecture, typology traditionally organizes spaces into distinct categories—residential, co…
Transformations of Row Houses
Situated within the residential grid blocks of Sunset Park, the project spans across five sites f…
Part-time Farmers
In response to severe overcrowding and inadequate living spaces in Sunset Park, a densely populat…
Farming the Fragmented
“Farming the Fragmented” envisions new agro-ecological imaginaries that empower alternative food-…
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Food-First Typology: Biologycal Cycle in the City
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Reverse Logistics: Dealing with the Unwanted Stuff of our Digital World
ACID TRACKS
In the electronic music scene, DIY events have long found their home in unconventional spaces – f…
Urban Energy Hub
Reverse logistics has unintentionally harmed the environment and land in modern society. While te…
ATLANTIC ARCADE
Level 1: What Is Reverse Logistics?
Imagine buying something online, realizing it’s not your j…
Regenerative Center
The low recycling rates for clothing and electronic products can be attributed to the following r…
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Oral (Infra)structures
Loopholes of Power: Reclaiming the Contracted City
In a city dominated by skyscrapers, hidden deals, and corridors of power, public land is too ofte…
Cutie-o’s as Spaces of Conversation
Cutie-o is a gesture of care that directly engages people by creating a space that gathers and fa…
Override (Park for App-Based Couriers)
Most people would like to be recognized for the work that they do, and rightfully so because it v…
DARK_UNDERBELLY
DARK_UNDERBELLY speculates four possible cultural uses for the underbelly of the BQE in Brooklyn,…
Beyond Non-Places, Reimagining Healthcare waiting areas
This project began as a deeply personal journey, rooted in the memories of my grandfather, Abujee…
Pleasure
In response to a critical analysis of Manhattan’s nightlife, “Pleasure” provides an alternative p…
Skyscraper of Stories
The Skyscraper of Stories is an architectural rebellion, rising in stark contrast to the hollow m…