Spring 2026
CORE ARCHITECTURE STUDIO II
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CARBON REMOVAL ARCHITECTURE
Cooper Whalen: Factory Baths
My intervention puts normal people in touch with concrete reprocessing, leading them to become na…
Alexia Hernando: From Field to Form
“From Field to Form proposes a seasonal material hub that transforms agricultural residue into b…
Won Hwang: It takes a village to grow play
This project reimagines the city as a school where carbon cycles become legible through children’…
Moon Son: Terraeon: Architecture as Accumulated Time
Terraeon is not a building, but a time-based architectural system. Located on the Red Hook waterf…
Eric Ha: RE-Production
“ Re-Production addresses Beacon’s shift from a production-based city to one centered on cultural…
Yifan Lloyd Zhang: Remnant Lands
Remnant Lands examines the afterlife of coal mining landscapes in northern China. Thousands of mi…
Xinyi Zheng: Carbon Flow: From Waste to Architecture
Through Studio Core 2, this project developed across three phases to explore how biochar can scal…
John Jeongkuen Kim: Atmospheric Archiving
Atmospheric Archiving redefines Manhattan’s coastal defense by resolving the “Seawall Paradox” wh…
Eddie Button: Shells and Olivine
Shells and Olivine reimagines Manhattan’s west side by transforming a disused Marine Transfer Sta…
Anna-Maria Bolok: The Endless Experiment
This project envisions an ever-changing platform where new materials are tested, exhibited, and e…
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ROTATION RISOTTO | CONSTRUCTION COMPOSTE CONCRETE
JinYu Guu: Silica-Remix
“Silica-Remix is a strategy to scale up innovative material adoption, of low-or-no- carbon nature…
Shtile Shuaipaj: Shtesa: Retrofitting as Resistance
The development of socialist housing after WWII supplied Eastern Europe with a stubborn yet proli…
Jeewon Seo: The Returning Earth
“This project proposes a modular precast soil system that transforms urban infrastructure waste i…
Charlie Treadway, Sebastian Irizarry: Colibri District
A Sporting and Entertainment District for Puerto Rico and a Formula 1 track around it using the c…
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ARBOREAL
Brandon Israel: Rockaway Beach ADU
“The project aims to illustrate what Pine tar allows the occupant to do with the space that typic…
Theju (Kiran) Nimmagadda: ADU for an Introvert
The ADU is a unique typology. It exists in some forms as a detached structure in the backyard of …
Meryl Henderson: Blankie House
“From one man’s trash to another man’s treasure, this proposed “Blankie House” is designed to be …
Daniel Scanlon: Ligno-House: A Proposal for Rapidly Deployable Housing Using Paper Mill Waste
Lignin is the most abundant plant-derived molecule after cellulose. Through paper production, mor…
Catherine Tang: Latex House: Aging in Place
This project imagines residential space for 65-70 year-old elderly parents moving in with relativ…
Carolena Bastiaan Beatley: Greenhouse
This ADU was designed with the goal of creating a space where fruits and vegetables could be grow…
Tulsi Anna: Poplar House
“Poplar House is an ADU designed for a large multigenerational family in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn. R…
Drew Bennett: Shake House
“Shake house is named for its cladding, cedar shakes, which embody this project’s message: build …
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SMALL SCALE - BIG IMPACT
Emily Geldermann: Latent Lofts
“This project examines underutilized aspects of existing spaces and materials. Located atop lon…
Jiayan Li: Soft Grid ADU
“My ADU project proposes a panelized hempcrete housing system designed for small backyard sites …
Amy Ding: Reed Perimeter
Reed Perimeter investigates how reed can be used in small dwelling units designed around the scal…
Heloise de Walque: Aging in Place ADU
This ADU proposes aging in place through backyard downsizing, allowing residents to reduce costs …
Ashley Tam: The Living Infill
Staten Island’s low-density neighborhoods present an opportunity to address the housing shortage …
Jae Won Lee: tree house
“This project originated from a critical inquiry into the inefficiency of New York City’s Christm…
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FORMS OF REPAIR
Safi El-Gamal: Language as Form: A Zellige Archive
Immigrant Language Archive lives at the crossroads of various immigrant communities in Queens. Th…
Sebastian Sundheim: Repair Club
“A new society needs an spatial translation. This is the starting point for the new typology of t…
Julia Wennerholm: Reconstructing a Sears Home
Reconstructing a Sears Home (2026) by Julia Wennerholm is a project study of the wood framing fro…
Zachary Lawrence: Scaffolded Memory: A Healing Journey
Scaffolded Memory began with the framing of words that define the confrontation between ruin and …
Jonny Liboyi: Terminal Brick Works
Terminal Brick Works operates as a brick reclamation facility inserted into the existing shell of…
Ming Chen: Co-Habitation
This project reactivates North Brother Island through a shared landscape for humans and birds, co…
Isabella Nicole De Andrade: Collective for Attentive Repair [C.A.R.]
Collective for Attentive Repair C.A.R. by Isabella Nicole De Andrade is an anonymous gro…
Yutong Ni: eelgrass healing dunes
This project takes eelgrass as its core material to explore the integration of ecological repair …
Adeola Elizabeth Adebayo: Alchemy As Reparation of People and Place
“Bedford-Stuyvesant, commonly known as bed-stuy is a historically Black neighborhood in Brooklyn …
Cole Dollinger: Vertical Village
Vertical Village relates material reuse to structural and social repair – the project is a multig…
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VISIBLE INVISIBLE
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BUILDING BEYOND OIL
Emily LeCompte : The Biogenic Commons
The Biogenic Commons of Utica, New York situates a campus of reclaimed and biogenic materials thr…
Violet Moore: Pick Up House
Pick Up House is kit of parts made from dowel-laminated mass timber system for Oneida County ADUs…
James Haynes: The Bureau For Unconventional & Innovative Design
In response to the understanding that architecture is inherently extractive and carbon-intensive—…
Kylie Grimm: Bio Basilica
Bio Basilica is a grassroots community intervention that disrupts the linear “extract-waste” cycl…
Anastasia Hauser: STITCH
STITCH is a contemporary architectural intervention that bridges two existing buildings to physic…
Vivian Silva Freitas: Bowling Without Borders
Adaptive reuse of Utica’s former AMF Pin-O-Rama Bowling Alley creates a community-focused space. …