Fall 2025
CORE ARCHITECTURE STUDIO I
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Afterlight Path
Project by Moon Son and Vivian Silva Freitas
“Afterlight Path is an architectural exploration …
Reconstituting MacDougal: Protecting An Evolving History
Project by Ana Hauser, Jonny Liboyi, James Haynes
129 MacDougal Street operates as a container…
A Metabolic Machine
Project by Ana Hauser, James Haynes, Jonny Liboyi
How can we re-fertilize the urban landscape …
The Green Resonator
Project by Yue Han, Yuyang Cai, Jason Zhou
The research shows that plants that listen to music…
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Tidal Clocks
Project by Alexia Hernando Cracco
Tidal Clocks begins with a study of water’s capacity to reme…
Pier Kitchen
Project by Eric Ha
Pier Kitchen reconsider thermal comfort as a continuous gradient shaped by …
Christopher Street Watchtower
Project by Yifan Lloyd Zhang
“Christopher Street Watchtower sits on the lawn of Christopher St…
WIP
Project by John Jeongkuen Kim
WIP (Wave In Progress) is a pavilion project located at Christop…
Cruising the Tide: The Room Below the River
Project by Zachary Lawrence
The project delineates a space for queer nightlife and intimacy. I…
Bittersweet Waters
Project by Emily Geldermann
This intervention examines the effect of a single motion and how i…
Tears of the Anthropocene
Project by Tingyu Cao
Tears of the Anthropocene stages the body as witness and participant in …
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The Hudson Battery
Project by Brandon Israel, Riley Jackes
Our design reimagines Pier 40 as a battery of food, fl…
Varkenvoort at the Whitney
Project by Harisma Andikagumi
In a utopian future when pigs are roaming freely in Manhattan, t…
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Circles in Motion: Recipes for Gathering
Project by Ashley Tam
This project reimagines Sara D. Roosevelt Park as a public space where i…
Sara D. Roosevelt Walkway
Project by Cooper Whalen
Sara D. Roosevelt Park in the Lower East Side of New York City has hi…
THIS SITE SAVES LIVES: A Novel Harm Reduction Model in Sara D. Roosevelt Park
Project by Daniel Scanlon
Harm reduction proposes interventions that minimizes the risks assoc…
Parks and Education
Project by Eddie Button
Sara D. Roosevelt Park becomes an active educational landscape that ex…
Petals of Rain
Project by Heloise de Walque
“This project investigates water access in Sara D. Roosevelt Park…
Re-Framing the Third Space
Project by Meryl Henderson
Third spaces are considered anywhere outside of work or home that p…
Intersecting Communities
Project by Angela Hunga
Sara D. Roosevelt Park in the Lower East Side of New York City is situ…
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مقاومة/Maqawamah: Environmental Identities of Resistance
Project by Safi El-Gamal
The keffiyeh’s patterns simultaneously symbolizes three aspects of id…
المعرفة والقوة/Al-Marifah wal-Quah: The Knowledge and Power of Columbia University’s Archives
Project by Safi El-Gamal
This drawing represents the microcosm/inherent components (blue) and …
Reflection (2025)
Swallow before reading. Inhabit the system. Reflection of one - bears full weight and span of th…
Melted into Thin Air : From Earth to Cloud
MATERIAL: SS Spoon, SS Nuts, SS Washers, SS Threaded Rods, Aluminum Sheets, Aluminum Foil, Wood B…
BIO-SHAFT
Project by Taiga Amano
BIO-SHAFT reimagines Manhattan’s post-1901 new-law tenement houses by r…
Rock Pools in NYC
Project by Carolena Bastiaan Beatley
This project, inspired by rock pools in Australia, aims t…
Wearable Birdhouse
Project by Carolena Bastiaan Beatley
In order to protect the environment and successfully figh…
Plastic Bloom, Geothermal Energy Extraction, Symbiotic HexaHive, Synthetic Climates
Project by Xinyi Zheng
“Plastic Bloom explores the impact of plastic pollution on nature throu…
Lilac Isle
Project by Cole Dollinger
Lilac Isle is a physical manifestation of the Utopian paradise priso…
The Vibrancy of Cloth
Project by Sarah Salins
As one of the world’s leading exporters of textiles, the Indian textil…
Symbiosis; From Flush to Farm: The Journey of Wastewater Recycling; Symbiotic HexaHive; Oyster to Reef
Project by Ming Chen
Across four projects, my work this semester explored architecture and des…
Degrow or Regrow?
Project by Sarah Salins
Degrowth entails the downscaling of material and energy throughput of …
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1 bloom through cracks; 2 symphony of bamboo; 3 volcanic ecological lung
Project by Yutong Ni
1 This work uses broken porcelain and vegetation to explore fragility and…
Chilibration
Project by Sebastian Irizarry
Chilibration celebrates the bond between people and plants throu…
Sutured Dew
Project by Won Hwang, Napat (Beam) Leephanuwong
The Nevada Test Site remains an environment de…
The Practice of Presence: Learning to Give and to Receive
Project by Won Hwang, Napat (Beam) Leephanuwong
We give, and we also receive. We give to the e…
The Sound of Return
Project by Michael K Chan
For thousands of years, the vault of frost beneath the Alaskan land …
Drop City
Project by Sebastian Sundheim
Drop City is an attempt to respond to the climate risks of the H…
City Hall Garden
Project by Sebastian Sundheim
Observations at the City Hall Park. A rectangle, planted with co…
The Grafted Vejigante
Project by Sebastian Irizarry
“Aunque siembren las raíces como les dé la gana, los palos de gu…
The Scratcher
Project by Sebastian Irizarry
After an eruption, a volcano leaves behind a field of black rock…
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Designing Perplexity: Pattern, Play, and the Manufacture of Belief
Project by Haniqa Rahardjo
The project’s final phase expanded outward to study precedent envir…
JXY-25-12 CHI GENERATOR
Project by Amy Ding
The character Chi (气) in Chinese stands for air, gas, and atmosphere, emph…
Shared Territory
Project by Jeewon Seo
I explore human–animal relationships and become inspired by the concept …
Wasteland Park
Project by Charlie Treadway
A gamified version of the Christopher Pier that brings attention t…
Gothic UX: Architectures of Interpretation and the Infrastructure of Habit
Project by Alexa Dannis
Everyday online gestures— scrolling, reacting, pausing— are captured a…
The Bio Arena
Project by Jiayan Li
How a body is reshaped by external systems. The idea of othering is inves…