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Sustainability
Environment Ecology
Infrastructure Materiality
Integration
Future Renovation
Network
Community Structure
Robotics
Intervention
Fabrication
Housing Identity
Furniture
Social
Demographic Translation
Recycling
Education
Interaction
Link Domain
Juxtaposition
Circulation
Landscape Immigration
Imagination
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Infrastructure Materiality
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Housing Identity
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The Central + Wolfe Campus Grand Paris: Envisioning the First-Post Kyoto Metropolis A Student’s Guide to Environmental Justice and Landscape Architecture The City in the City: A Green Archipelago
Ecology Eddy
Traces of Making Tubular Knitting 8 10 12 14
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Infrastructure Inhabitable Infrastructures: Mississippi Delta Territorial Flux and Deltaic Urbanity
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Maturing Connections Buffalo AR Image-Scape: Nature as a New Monument Nomad Land: Metacities for a Trans-Territorial Civilization Chongqing • ish
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Regenerative Fold In Pursuit of Great Form TODD: A Companion in the Fluff Prismatic
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Social
Fruit Pad: A Fresh Look at Affordable Housing in Fruitvale, California Agency and Empowerment in Public Housing NOLA Shares: An Integrated and Equitable Sharing Economy for the Iberville Neighborhood
Circulation
The UID Cube: Amsterdam [PARA]cHURCH
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Landscape Ambiguous Topographies Reciprocative Nature: Constructed Landscape with Site Specific Intervention Imprint
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Structure
The Phoenix Keepers: An Anthropology of Futurity in Detroit City Hall 96 102 Project Eddy Gate Montage 106 Ithaca Change Factory 110
Earthen Delight Imprisoned Beauties: Artscape Hotel Palazzo dei Diamanti Restoration
Cultural Center of Female Entrepreneurs in Ahmedabad New Engineering University The Encore
Topography
Renovation
Intervention
Education
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Hull Rust and Hibbing Taconite Mine View Overlook and Park, Phase I 156 160 Paraíso
Housing
Structural Analysis Model of Keenan Tower House
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Link
Echo Acceleration vs. Deliberation
Bookends MADMI: Museo de Arte y Diseño de Miramar Tower of Broken Memory
Imagination
Cities of the Celestial Sovereigns
Subconcious Land Fall Series Heavyheart
Understanding
Frame of Reference Arrivals and Departures
Data
Architectural Chimerism House in a Castle The Library of Illusions
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Identity
Interaction K Hip-Hop Hotel No-Stop Chongqing
Juxtaposition
#stillwandering Triangular Desire Vagaries of Life Chawans: Iterating on Traditional Forms The Constructed Ruin
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Domain 176 178 186 188
Culturally Rich Asians 242 Other Carpets: Unsolicited Majlis for Dubai 244
Immigration
Coalition Perception Tool One Family
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Environment Sustainability
The Central + Wolfe Campus Grand Paris: Envisioning the First-Post Kyoto Metropolis A Student’s Guide to Environmental Justice and Landscape Architecture The City in the City: A Green Archipelago
Ecology Eddy
Traces of Making Tubular Knitting 8 10 12 14
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Infrastructure Inhabitable Infrastructures: Mississippi Delta Territorial Flux and Deltaic Urbanity
Integration
By the Light of the Chimney The Router
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Future Pipe Dreams Reverse Turing Test
Network
Maturing Connections Buffalo AR Image-Scape: Nature as a New Monument Nomad Land: Metacities for a Trans-Territorial Civilization Chongqing • ish
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Fabrication Robotics
TESSILE: Tension Enabled Shading Systems Log Knot 6
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Recycling CUPS Evitim
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Community
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Fruit Pad: A Fresh Look at Affordable Housing in Fruitvale, California Agency and Empowerment in Public Housing NOLA Shares: An Integrated and Equitable Sharing Economy for the Iberville Neighborhood
Circulation
The UID Cube: Amsterdam [PARA]cHURCH
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Landscape Ambiguous Topographies Reciprocative Nature: Constructed Landscape with Site Specific Intervention Imprint
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Structure
The Phoenix Keepers: An Anthropology of Futurity in Detroit City Hall 96 102 Project Eddy Gate Montage 106 Ithaca Change Factory 110
Earthen Delight Imprisoned Beauties: Artscape Hotel Palazzo dei Diamanti Restoration
Cultural Center of Female Entrepreneurs in Ahmedabad New Engineering University The Encore
Topography
Renovation
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Hull Rust and Hibbing Taconite Mine View Overlook and Park, Phase I 156 160 Paraíso
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Structural Analysis Model of Keenan Tower House
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Echo Acceleration vs. Deliberation
Bookends MADMI: Museo de Arte y Diseño de Miramar Tower of Broken Memory
Imagination
Cities of the Celestial Sovereigns
Subconcious Land Fall Series Heavyheart
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Domain 176 178 186 188
Culturally Rich Asians 242 Other Carpets: Unsolicited Majlis for Dubai 244
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Alberto de Salvatierra B.Arch. 2014 Samantha Solano
Metacities for a Trans-Territorial Civilization
Nomad Land
This project proposes traveling caravans that slowly coalesce into informal settlements around key destinations of a borderfree planet. Radically democratic, these organically-grown roving cities are entirely built by the citizens who join this continuous procession facilitated by a transcontinental 46
transportation network. Using modular steel and timber elements that are easily assembled and disassembled, citizens constantly add-on, modify, and re-configure habitable structures in open spaces or by inhabiting existing infrastructures along the way. Building on a rich genealogy of
communal travel, these urban swarms are built, designed and joined together to promote alimentary self-sufficiency, sustaining the traveling populations with photo-voltaic powered greenhouses and rainwater collectors. Subsequently, these cities grow and shrink in a constant state of
flux. As climates and resource allocations shift, the adoption of nomadic policies— where sharing, collaboration and innovation are inserted into the global framework—will shape how societies can ensure permanence and flexible adaptation in both the near and distant future. 47
Alberto de Salvatierra B.Arch. 2014 Samantha Solano
Metacities for a Trans-Territorial Civilization
Nomad Land
This project proposes traveling caravans that slowly coalesce into informal settlements around key destinations of a borderfree planet. Radically democratic, these organically-grown roving cities are entirely built by the citizens who join this continuous procession facilitated by a transcontinental 46
transportation network. Using modular steel and timber elements that are easily assembled and disassembled, citizens constantly add-on, modify, and re-configure habitable structures in open spaces or by inhabiting existing infrastructures along the way. Building on a rich genealogy of
communal travel, these urban swarms are built, designed and joined together to promote alimentary self-sufficiency, sustaining the traveling populations with photo-voltaic powered greenhouses and rainwater collectors. Subsequently, these cities grow and shrink in a constant state of
flux. As climates and resource allocations shift, the adoption of nomadic policies— where sharing, collaboration and innovation are inserted into the global framework—will shape how societies can ensure permanence and flexible adaptation in both the near and distant future. 47
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Montage
Montage is a transformational mixeduse development at the junction of Toronto’s Downtown and East End neighborhoods. The project is an environmentally sustainable cultural hub that integrates cinema, creative industries, and Toronto’s park system to create a unique and lively 24/7 neighborhood. Akin to clipping together film scenes, Montage fuses surrounding communities and creative thinkers through spaces for the public and venues for theatre and music. Sunlight park reclaims over five acres of waterfront park space adjoining Corktown Common and provides panoramic views of Downtown Toronto. Underneath the park is an engineered flood mitigation and water recycling system that uses storm water overflow to create dynamic seasonal landscapes. At the centre of the development, the Nell Shipman Cinema Centre and Broadview Plaza integrate the 106
recreational, cultural, and professional elements of the district. Montage is the catalyst for the East End’s renaissance. Its design fills the gap for “missing middle” (mid-rise) development and provides a transition in scale from Toronto’s low-rise neighborhoods to highrise buildings. It softens the edges of East Harbour’s towers, inviting residents from the neighboring Leslieville, East Chinatown, and Regent Park to spend the day shopping, and working, and the evenings dining, socializing, and watching the Toronto International Film Festival’s “Best Picture” movie.
Residential 1. McLaren Tower 6. 201 Old Eastern Ave 8. Legacy Road 11. 200 Old Eastern Ave 12. 100 Old Eastern Ave 13. Organic Grocery
Technology 2. 1 Sunlight Park 3. 2 Sunlight Park 4. Eaton Library 5. 3 Sunlight Park 7. 4 Sunlight Park 9. 5 Sunlight Park
Cultural 10. Stoneleigh Hotel 14. Warwick Hotel 15. Shipman Cinema Centre
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Peter Romano M.R.P. & M.P.S. in Real Estate 2019 Paul Heydweiller M.P.S. in Real Estate 2018 Rawinthira Narksusook M.P.S. in Real Estate 2018 Gary Esposito M.Arch. 2018 Jamie Mitchell M.Arch. 2018
Montage
Montage is a transformational mixeduse development at the junction of Toronto’s Downtown and East End neighborhoods. The project is an environmentally sustainable cultural hub that integrates cinema, creative industries, and Toronto’s park system to create a unique and lively 24/7 neighborhood. Akin to clipping together film scenes, Montage fuses surrounding communities and creative thinkers through spaces for the public and venues for theatre and music. Sunlight park reclaims over five acres of waterfront park space adjoining Corktown Common and provides panoramic views of Downtown Toronto. Underneath the park is an engineered flood mitigation and water recycling system that uses storm water overflow to create dynamic seasonal landscapes. At the centre of the development, the Nell Shipman Cinema Centre and Broadview Plaza integrate the 106
recreational, cultural, and professional elements of the district. Montage is the catalyst for the East End’s renaissance. Its design fills the gap for “missing middle” (mid-rise) development and provides a transition in scale from Toronto’s low-rise neighborhoods to highrise buildings. It softens the edges of East Harbour’s towers, inviting residents from the neighboring Leslieville, East Chinatown, and Regent Park to spend the day shopping, and working, and the evenings dining, socializing, and watching the Toronto International Film Festival’s “Best Picture” movie.
Residential 1. McLaren Tower 6. 201 Old Eastern Ave 8. Legacy Road 11. 200 Old Eastern Ave 12. 100 Old Eastern Ave 13. Organic Grocery
Technology 2. 1 Sunlight Park 3. 2 Sunlight Park 4. Eaton Library 5. 3 Sunlight Park 7. 4 Sunlight Park 9. 5 Sunlight Park
Cultural 10. Stoneleigh Hotel 14. Warwick Hotel 15. Shipman Cinema Centre
This project received first prize at the 16th ULI Hines Student Competition in Toronto in 2018. It was advised by Assistant Professor Suzanne Lanyi Charles and Visiting Critic Mitch Glass with Laura Curi de Mattos, M.P.S. in Real Estate 2018. 107
Madeleine Eggers B.Arch. 2019 Alireza Shojakhani M.Arch. 2018 Jeff Drexel B.Arch. 2018
Ithaca Change Factory
Medium: Architectural drawing and model hybrids on lasercut cardboard, chipboard.
DP 4.0 Studio took on the rehabilitation of Ithaca’s now-defunct Morse Chain Factory, a behemoth of a building that had been tacked on to and expanded continuously between 1900 and 1960. When the factory went out of business, the building was deemed too toxic and cumbersone to bulldoze, and was thus preserved by virtue of its own mass. The studio’s aim was to engage it in a different way from the usual top-down masterplan method, instead altering the existing fabric of the massive building with architectural interventions that leveraged the structural redundancies overlapping of time periods and building methods. These alterations were envisioned to be enacted in a grassroots, piecemeal fashion—in much the same way the factory came into being. 110
Our intervention took the form of an “adventure playground” as rehabilitation method: the idea that it might be therapeutic to swing a hammer and knock down some walls, or engage in a shared construction project with a bunch of strangers in pursuit of a common goal. The other component of the intervention was the opening of the factory roof via a massive system of drive wheels and pulleys, turning the space into a venue for concerts by night and a semi-outdoor cultural space by day, sensationalizing the once-overlooked factory. This project was completed in the Option Studio “Design Plan 4.0” taught by Assistant Professor Aleksandr Mergold.
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Madeleine Eggers B.Arch. 2019 Alireza Shojakhani M.Arch. 2018 Jeff Drexel B.Arch. 2018
Ithaca Change Factory
Medium: Architectural drawing and model hybrids on lasercut cardboard, chipboard.
DP 4.0 Studio took on the rehabilitation of Ithaca’s now-defunct Morse Chain Factory, a behemoth of a building that had been tacked on to and expanded continuously between 1900 and 1960. When the factory went out of business, the building was deemed too toxic and cumbersone to bulldoze, and was thus preserved by virtue of its own mass. The studio’s aim was to engage it in a different way from the usual top-down masterplan method, instead altering the existing fabric of the massive building with architectural interventions that leveraged the structural redundancies overlapping of time periods and building methods. These alterations were envisioned to be enacted in a grassroots, piecemeal fashion—in much the same way the factory came into being. 110
Our intervention took the form of an “adventure playground” as rehabilitation method: the idea that it might be therapeutic to swing a hammer and knock down some walls, or engage in a shared construction project with a bunch of strangers in pursuit of a common goal. The other component of the intervention was the opening of the factory roof via a massive system of drive wheels and pulleys, turning the space into a venue for concerts by night and a semi-outdoor cultural space by day, sensationalizing the once-overlooked factory. This project was completed in the Option Studio “Design Plan 4.0” taught by Assistant Professor Aleksandr Mergold.
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Alberto de Salvatierra B.Arch. 2014
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Selected as a finalist from entries from over 65 different countries in Blank Space’s 2018 Fairy Tales Competition, this project entailed the creation of an image and text-based fairy tale - a kind of harmony between the visual and conceptual. “Cities of the Celestial Sovereigns” reimagines creation mythologies through the syncretism of recognizable mythemes via coexisting “mother” civilizations. Below is a brief excerpt from the project. The Fifth, both the youngest and most exuberant, fashioned the sky—providing a breathable atmosphere and clouds to filter light. The Fourth, and most ambitious, created the oceans—vast reservoirs of water that
covered the majority of the planet. The Third, always the rebel, created the deserts—dry and hot to contrast the wet oceans and cool skies. The Second, and most pragmatic, created the mountains—seeking the strong and solid stability of stone to tower above both the oceans and deserts. The First, both the oldest and wisest, created the plains—a curiously ambiguous landscape that would occupy the liminal space between all other topographies. Decidedly solid like the mountains, yet sometimes dry like the deserts and sometimes wet like the oceans, the plains would even periodically reflect the heavens— blurring the horizon between the sky and the sea. Urantia was truly a sight to behold. 199
Alberto de Salvatierra B.Arch. 2014
Cities of the Celestial Sovereigns 198
Selected as a finalist from entries from over 65 different countries in Blank Space’s 2018 Fairy Tales Competition, this project entailed the creation of an image and text-based fairy tale - a kind of harmony between the visual and conceptual. “Cities of the Celestial Sovereigns” reimagines creation mythologies through the syncretism of recognizable mythemes via coexisting “mother” civilizations. Below is a brief excerpt from the project. The Fifth, both the youngest and most exuberant, fashioned the sky—providing a breathable atmosphere and clouds to filter light. The Fourth, and most ambitious, created the oceans—vast reservoirs of water that
covered the majority of the planet. The Third, always the rebel, created the deserts—dry and hot to contrast the wet oceans and cool skies. The Second, and most pragmatic, created the mountains—seeking the strong and solid stability of stone to tower above both the oceans and deserts. The First, both the oldest and wisest, created the plains—a curiously ambiguous landscape that would occupy the liminal space between all other topographies. Decidedly solid like the mountains, yet sometimes dry like the deserts and sometimes wet like the oceans, the plains would even periodically reflect the heavens— blurring the horizon between the sky and the sea. Urantia was truly a sight to behold. 199
Josh Owen B.F.A. 1994 Wendell Castle
Bookends
The Support for Knowledge Project began as a dream to help the internationally acclaimed Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) industrial design program grow into a new facility that would mirror its status in the world. Building on the collaborative nature of the industrial design field, and its cohort in and around RIT, we envisioned a project worthy of capturing such a spirit—distilled into a product that could be sold in a limited edition to act as an heirloom to memorialize our donor’s intentions. We leveraged the storied RIT Shop One as a conduit and our friends at Autodesk to explore production ideas. This platform enables students, alumni and faculty efforts to develop limited edition works of art/design to help our cause. Renowned designers Wendell Castle and Josh Owen collaborated on this special philanthropic project. These experienced 190
makers set out to apply their individual approaches to jointly create a pair of bookends. Their existing bodies of work show very different vocabularies. Each designed one half of the set. Their goal was to produce an object set where each side has its own distinct approach, but successfully interacts with the other side to create a holistic design conversation for the pair. The redesigned Industrial Design Studio will be the embodiment of good design to prospective students. The program has grown and matured over the years, consistently ranked in the top ten nationally. Providing students and faculty with facilities on par with the quality of the education offered will help cement the future efficacy of the department’s platform.
Opposite Page: Both bookends together. This Page: Top: Bookend by Wendell Castle. Bottom: Bookend by Josh Owen. Images: Lamark Photography.
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Josh Owen B.F.A. 1994 Wendell Castle
Bookends
The Support for Knowledge Project began as a dream to help the internationally acclaimed Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) industrial design program grow into a new facility that would mirror its status in the world. Building on the collaborative nature of the industrial design field, and its cohort in and around RIT, we envisioned a project worthy of capturing such a spirit—distilled into a product that could be sold in a limited edition to act as an heirloom to memorialize our donor’s intentions. We leveraged the storied RIT Shop One as a conduit and our friends at Autodesk to explore production ideas. This platform enables students, alumni and faculty efforts to develop limited edition works of art/design to help our cause. Renowned designers Wendell Castle and Josh Owen collaborated on this special philanthropic project. These experienced 190
makers set out to apply their individual approaches to jointly create a pair of bookends. Their existing bodies of work show very different vocabularies. Each designed one half of the set. Their goal was to produce an object set where each side has its own distinct approach, but successfully interacts with the other side to create a holistic design conversation for the pair. The redesigned Industrial Design Studio will be the embodiment of good design to prospective students. The program has grown and matured over the years, consistently ranked in the top ten nationally. Providing students and faculty with facilities on par with the quality of the education offered will help cement the future efficacy of the department’s platform.
Opposite Page: Both bookends together. This Page: Top: Bookend by Wendell Castle. Bottom: Bookend by Josh Owen. Images: Lamark Photography.
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Sam Price B.F.A. 2021
Frame of Reference
This concentration of work is inspired by our innate desire for connection, which I look to accomplish with visual representations of perception guided by components that we all share: the body and the mind. Our species understands drawing to be an act which involves making marks to express entities or ideas. I view the universe to be a physical extension of this principle, whereby all phenomena are inherently drawings conducted by the ebbs and flows of mass from energy. The body is one of these drawing tools; but it is the tool by which we fathom all that is observable. When I paint, I seek to express the highly visceral and psychological underpinnings behind one’s grasp of reality. Whether it be the molecular 212
structures that influence how we feel, the day-to-day momentary glimpses that become embedded in our subconsciouses, or our interpretations of entities based on our memories, the content of my art is driven by a philosophy that humanity is running on the same software, but under vastly different conditions from person to person. It is with this mindset that I hope to unite observers of my work in realizing that they are more similar than they think.
Opposite Page: Connection. Medium: Acrylic paint. Dimensions: 48" x 60". This Page: Top: Genetic Memory. Medium: Acrylic paint. Dimensions: 16" x 20". Bottom: Context. Medium: Acrylic Paint Dimensions: 16" x 20".
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Sam Price B.F.A. 2021
Frame of Reference
This concentration of work is inspired by our innate desire for connection, which I look to accomplish with visual representations of perception guided by components that we all share: the body and the mind. Our species understands drawing to be an act which involves making marks to express entities or ideas. I view the universe to be a physical extension of this principle, whereby all phenomena are inherently drawings conducted by the ebbs and flows of mass from energy. The body is one of these drawing tools; but it is the tool by which we fathom all that is observable. When I paint, I seek to express the highly visceral and psychological underpinnings behind one’s grasp of reality. Whether it be the molecular 212
structures that influence how we feel, the day-to-day momentary glimpses that become embedded in our subconsciouses, or our interpretations of entities based on our memories, the content of my art is driven by a philosophy that humanity is running on the same software, but under vastly different conditions from person to person. It is with this mindset that I hope to unite observers of my work in realizing that they are more similar than they think.
Opposite Page: Connection. Medium: Acrylic paint. Dimensions: 48" x 60". This Page: Top: Genetic Memory. Medium: Acrylic paint. Dimensions: 16" x 20". Bottom: Context. Medium: Acrylic Paint Dimensions: 16" x 20".
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