2023
DESIGN STUDIO REVIEWS
F A L L’ 2 3 REVIEW SCHEDULE AND OVERVIEW OF STUDIOS
REVIEW SCHEDULE
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1 Synthesis Studio 1:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
ARCH 4520
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 6
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MONDAY, DECEMBER 4 Basic Design I 10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
LARC 1510
Architecture Foundations I 1:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. (8 Sections)
ARCH 2510
Fluid Studio: Kleiss 1:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
ARCH 3510 ARCH 8570
Regional Design and Ecology 1:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
LARC 3510
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 8
Studio U 1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
ARCH 3520 ARCH 8570
Fluid Studio: Ersoy 10:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
ARCH 3510 ARCH 8570
Fluid Studio: Savory 1:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
ARCH 3510
Fluid Studio: Albright 1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
ARCH 3510 ARCH 8570
Introduction to Urban Contexts 1:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. (6 Sections)
ARCH 3500
Studio V 1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
ARCH 8570
Landscape Architecture Design Fundamentals 1:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. (2 Sections)
LARC 2510
Studio U 1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
ARCH 3520 ARCH 8570
Fluid Studio: del Monte 1:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
ARCH 3510 ARCH 8570
Urban Design Studio 1:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
LARC 4540
Introduction to Urban Contexts 1:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
ARCH 3500
Community Design / Fluid Campus 1:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
LARC 8230
Interdisciplinary Design and Research 9:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. 1:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
LARC 8430 ARCH 8510 ARCH 3510
Landscape Architecture Exit Project 1:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
LARC 4550
REVIEW SCHEDULE
MONDAY, DECEMBER 11 Design Studio III 9:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. 1:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
ARCH 8510
Landscape Architecture Design Fundamentals 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
LARC 2510 LARC 8010
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 13 Design Studio III 9:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. 1:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
ARCH 8410
Fluid Studio: Genoa All Day
ARCH 3530 ARCH 8570 LARC 3550
Fluid Studio: Barcelona All Day
ARCH 3540 ARCH 8570 LARC 3550
TUESDAY, MONDAY, DECEMBER DECEMBER 124 DesignDesign Basic StudioI III 10:30 9:00 a.m. a.m.- 12:30 - 12:30p.m. p.m.
ARCH LARC 1510 8510
Architecture + Foundations Health Studio I 1:30 p.m. - 6:00 1:00 5:30 p.m.
ARCH 8970 2510 ARCH 8950
Fluid Studio: to Kleiss Introduction Architecture 1:30 p.m. 5:30 3:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. p.m.
ARCH ARCH 3510 1010
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 14 Fluid Studio: Barcelona All Day
ARCH 3540 ARCH 8570 LARC 3550
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A R C H 4 5 2 0 | SY NT HES IS ST UDIO Reimaging Cities Towards Carbon Neutrality & Initiative 99
Faculty:
G u e s t C r itic s : Lisa Lanni, Principal Greenville Office Director (MPS), Leigh Pfei Sustainability Leader, LS3P, and her husband, a structural engineer, J.T. Pennington, MPS Architect S t u di o D e s c r ip ti on: This course aims to synthesize knowledge and skills developed in previous architectural studios, classes, and seminars within a collaborative studio context, and in particular, aims to leverage the diversity of competencies, experiences, and ideas encountered in Clemson's Fluid Campus for an International Design Competition in groups of (2) that features an institutional building within the urban fabric of Vung Tau, Vietnam. The competition hosted by UEH - Institute of Smart City and Management (ISCM), focuses on an urban design challenge with the topic of carbon neutrality. "Initiative 99", is the second competition the students will enter independently to design a "house" using 3D printed technologies that will cost less than $99,000 dollars in an effort to combat the housing crisis our American cities are now facing.
L AR C 1 5 1 0 | BA S IC DE SIG N I Reinterpreting the Lee 3 Courtyard S t u di o D e s c r ip t i on: LARC 1510 introduces the underlying principles of design, focusing on the theory and practice of design within landscape architecture. The studio addresses two - and three-dimensional design fundamentals and strongly emphasizes design as an ongoing, iterative process. Students explore the design principles underlying the creation of form and space in the landscape and practice using these elements in a series of exercises and projects. In project four, students selected a leader in the field of landscape architecture and studied how they used design elements and principles through a series of diagrams. For the final project, students are asked to create a design for the Lee 3 courtyard that reinterprets the landscape based on the principles they discovered in project four. Final products will include: • • • • • •
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User study Concept statementDesigner statement Illustrative master plan 2 perspectives 1 section
Edgar Mozo, AIA Lecturer
Faculty:
Lara Browning
Director of Undergraduate Programs in Landscape Architecture
TA:
Jiaying Dong
Design Coaches:
Isabel Baghdady
Sam Bost
Haley Carpenter
Shelbie Hyland
Melissa Morales
Kay Rumsey
A R C H 2 5 1 0 | A RC HITE CTUR E FOUNDATI O N S I Bath House on an Imaginary Site
Faculty:
G u e s t C r itic s : Danny Adams (LS3P)| Catherine Pucci (AM King) | Joel Overstrom (MPS) | Shannon Calloway (Moseley) | John Butch (Batson) | Sam Herrin (SMHa) | Aaron Greene | Nicole Coker (Studio 511)| JD Gutermuth (Basic Workshop) S t u di o D e s c r ip t i on: The semester is structured around various means of making, which serves as the basis for conceptualizing a Bath House project on an imaginary site. The studio aims to have students conceive the earth as a physical material to design with, and to create architectural forms integrated into the landscape. P1 — Glueless and Cluless studio consists of many steps of drawing, making, and building in which students are expected to learn various techniques of fabrication. Initially, students develop an abstract site using their fingerprints, sections of tree trunks, or other inspirational images, resulting in significant slopes with peak and/or valley conditions. On this foundation, they sculpt indoor, outdoor, and in-between spaces, both above grade, on grade and below grade while examining accessibility between each. This 3dimensional collage evolves through a weekly sequence, incorporating 1D elements (sticks) – 2D elements (complex surfaces created via 3d printing) – 3D elements (mass produced using laser cutting). The project is referred to as ‘Glueless’ because students are not allowed to use glue between these elements, and ‘Clueless’ in the sense that it’s not guided by a pre-conceived idea, but rather by various steps of making. P2 — Think Positive consists of various casting studies, where students explore space making.
Asa Pellor
Chloe Voltaire
Byron Jefferies
Harrison Floyd
Shan Sutherland
Bryan Beerman
Lecturer
Lecturer
Lecturer
Berrin Terim
Studio Level Coordinator & Assistant Professor
Lecturer
Lecturer
Lecturer
Swati Goel
Graduate Assistant
P3 — Bath House, students individually interpret these conceptual studies and transform them into a bath-house design. They assign views and orientations to their imaginary site, and develop their existing structures to accommodate open program spaces (one indoor and one outdoor pool) and fixed program spaces (bathrooms, showers, locker rooms, etc.) for a Bath House. A R C H 3 5 1 0 /8 5 2 0 | FLUID ST UDIO: KLEIS S
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G u e s t C r itic s : Brandon Ross | Grace Fulmer S t u di o D e s c r ip ti on: Our studio explored relationships between cultures and design through 2 Embassy projects. First was the US Embassy in Dili, East Timor, a new project that started this year. The second project is the extension to Kuwait embassy in Washington DC. Our studio will present their findings in Clemson and will travel to present the final project in Washington DC. This was done in collaboration with the Bureau of Overseas Building Operations, US State Department, and architects from KCCT. Also done in collaboration with the Precast Concrete Institute Foundation and the Pennell Center.
Michael Carlos Kleiss, Ph.D. Associate Professor
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L AR C 3 5 1 0 | R E GIONA L DE SIG N A ND E CO LO GY Designing a Landscape Narrative for the Clemson Black Heritage Trail
Faculty:
G u e s t C r itic s : Dan Harding | Clemson CR+DC + Lynn Abdouni | UGA S t u di o D e s c r ip t i on: Black Heritage Trails celebrate the contributions of Black Americans and encourage a deeper understanding of the significance of the region’s cultural heritage to build more inclusive communities. These trails seek to connect cultural destinations through a single narrative and provide visitors will an interactive experience. A recent grant award from the Mellon Foundation will enable Clemson University to lead the creation of a Black Heritage Trail on campus and in the cities of Clemson and Seneca. The trail will feature walking paths that connect the heritage sites with interactive signage and artwork that document the stories of local Black history at significant historic sites in the City of Clemson, Clemson University campus, and the City of Seneca. And trying to figure out its what makes this place a place.
Hannah Slyce Lecturer
The objective of this studio is to understand the history of the land from a regional perspective and find ways to connect each of these sites both physically and through a shared history and narrative. The studio conducted extensive historical and regional analysis to understand the land use and story of the region in order to inform their regional planning exercise and site design. After developing a regional master plan with teams, each student was to select one of the historically significant sites and fully design and program the space to reflect a responsive narrative. A R C H 3 5 2 0 /8 5 7 0 | STUDIO U What is required for us to sustainably inhabit the Peninsula of Charleston? S t u di o D e s c r ip t i on: “Human activity has become such a dominant, disruptive source of change on a planetary scale that the biologist Eugene Stoermer coined the term Anthropocene to describe our current planetary epoch. Trends in climate change, a loss of biodiversity, and dissolution of social fabrics can seem already beyond our control or influence. We are at a critical juncture. What does it mean to practice design in the Anthropocene Age? How should we modify our methods, techniques, and strategies when every process and cycle is acceleration along an unknowable trajectory? What is the agency of the urban designer? How do we not just make landscapes, buildings and public spaces, but make change?” - Kate Orff, Toward an Urban Ecology (2016) This studio starts with the following questions: What is required for us to sustainably inhabit the Peninsula of Charleston? As our anthropocentric actions have a global impact, can we move beyond site net zero towards a new model where our built environment is carbon negative? How do we provide housing and support for those without housing who do not have the financial means to afford housing in the rapidly growing Historic Charleston? The goal of this studio is to critically examine how we build, live and work in a way that is holistically sustainable. Projects should seek to leverage opportunities within existing systems to propose an architecture of triple bottom line sustainability. The project is located in the East Side neighborhood of Charleston. The studio will address the critical needs of affordable housing and workforce housing through density that builds on the community and culture of the East Side and responds to the ever-increasing impacts of climate change. 6
Faculty:
Bradford Watson
Director of the Clemson Architecture Center Charleston
A R C H 3 5 1 0 /8 5 2 0 | FLUID STUDIO: SAVO RY The Freedom to Read: A Community Library S t u di o D e s c r ip t i on: In 1953, the American Library Association published the “Freedom to Read Statement,” proclaiming that free, open access to literature is essential to democracy and a free, robust society – and is fragile. On June 25, 2023, the ALA reaffirmed this landmark statement on its 70th anniversary. And while the holdings and programs in many public libraries are currently under scrutiny, as they were 70 years ago, technology has radically transformed the flow of information. Yet, under these pressures, with information available everywhere, always, potentially challenging the very relevance of public libraries, demand has only grown. Community libraries, the neighborhood presence of public library systems, are more popular than ever.
Faculty:
Tom Savory, FAIA Lecturer
This studio will explore the community library’s place in contemporary culture, the ongoing transformation of the library concept, and the unique characteristics of a place where resources are shared, responsibly curated, and always available to all. This exploration will be placed in the context of Columbia and Richland County SC’s historic Granby and Olympia Mills district, originally a small textile workers’ community that, today, is home to a broad spectrum of constituents, often at odds, from the working poor to university students, young families to the elderly. It is a community with several churches, a thriving center for contemporary art, and a massive granite quarry in its midst. Students will use the community library as a model for introducing architecture as an active participant in addressing the diverse, periodically conflicting needs of this somewhat isolated, distinctive neighborhood. Using the AIA Framework for Design Excellence (https://www.aia.org/resources/6077668-framework-for-design-excellence) students will seek opportunities to incorporate sustainable principles in ways that reinforce the urban community library experience. A R C H 3 5 0 0 | I N T RODUCTION TO UR BA N CO N T EXTS Architectural problems related to urban contexts. S t u di o D e s c r ip t i on: ARCH 3500 Addresses architectural problems related to urban contexts, and studies architectural resolutions that explore the interface between buildings and the public realm for sites. Introduces urban design fundamentals, building egress codes, and zoning, and promotes the continued development of architectural, graphic, and oral communications skills. Thematically the semester focuses on the American workplace. Many Americans spend approximately 1/3 of their lives at work so the benefits of a well-designed workplace are profound. Students will be researching and examining the theme of "work” for the entire semester starting with research into workplace issues related to health, programming, socialization, etc… An important goal of the studio is for students to research and understand both the contemporary city and the contemporary workplace to better design spaces for workers and at the same time design buildings that have a positive impact on the urban context in which they are placed. The site the semester-long project is in Manhattan, NY on 10th Ave. between 26th St. and 27th St. directly adjacent to The Highline.
Faculty:
Doug Hecker
Tim Brown
Associate Professor
Associate Professor
Rayshad Dorsey
Kyle Kiser
Clarissa Mendez
Kendall Roberts
Lecturer
Senior Lecturer
Lecturer
Lecturer
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L AR C 2 5 1 0 | LA NDSCA P E A R CHITE CTURE D ESIGN FU N D AMEN TAL S S t u di o D e s c r ip t i on: Through design projects, readings, and discussions, students derive and apply design principles to place, study the processes and styles of design, and develop an understanding of design types. Our mixed-use development project aims to honor the deep-rooted African-American history in Greenville's predominantly black neighborhood by creating an affordable housing-centered space connected to downtown, integrating various design typologies, leveraging the site's topography, and accommodating public transportation accessibility, in response to the evolving urban landscape and community needs. L AR C 2 5 1 0 | LA NDSCA P E A R CHITE CTURE D ESIGN FU N D AMEN TAL S Biophilic Design & Sustainable Landscapes
Faculty:
Zahra Ghazanfari Instructor
Faculty:
G u e s t C r itic s : Julie Ibrahim, property owner | Eric Bosman, Kimley-Horn | Jay Martin, Arbor Land Design | Brad Turcotte, Bolton-Menk
S t u di o D e s c r ip t i on: Through research, design assignments, field trips, readings, lectures and discussions, students derive and apply design principles to “place”, study the processes of design and develop an understanding of how design principles, plant materials and structures are used in the landscape. This semester’s studio investigation will explore biophilic design through the interrogation of a 70 acre property in Anderson, SC, containing a 15 acre lake, mature mixed evergreen canopy, mid-century modern residence and ancillary buildings. This third semester of the BLA eight-semester educational journey continues to build “landscape literacy”, particularly the through the development of critical thinking, the design process, design language and design vocabulary through multiple scale investigations that focus on “site” and the cultivation of a place while learning the basic pillars of sustainable landscapes and biophilic design and well-being. The studio emphasizes the spirit of collaboration, within the context of a respectful, cooperative design studio learning environment.
L AR C 4 5 4 0 | U RBA N DE SIG N STUDIO Main Street Downtown Revitalization S t u di o D e s c r ip t i on: What does it mean to be a Great Main Street? How can design contribute to reimagining the future of downtown and transforming main street into a new identity for recreation, health, growth, and social and cultural vibrancy?
Mary G. Padua PhD, RLA (CA HK SC) Professor
Faculty:
Hyejung Chang
The project: 1. envision and imagine future downtown Seneca with a hand-drawn elevation of the main street (in color) 2. layout a site improvement plan to preserve/repurpose lot/building uses, to reconfigure parking spaces, and to refurbish street features 3. develop a full site plan with detailed designs for a new community/central/city park that replaces the existing North Thompson Park at the heart of the downtown, Seneca. The objectives: • to address the future image of downtown Seneca as a cultural landmark. • to foster the small town feel to pedestrians/tourists/visitors focusing on accessibility, walkability, and identity. • to create activities strategically to tap the economic potential and opportunities for healthier life choices and everyday social interaction. 8
Associate Professor
A R C H 3 5 1 0 /8 5 2 0 | FLUID STUDIO: DE L M O N T E
Faculty:
G u e s t C r itic s : Michael Kaiser, national design director with The Beck Group, Dallas | Ryan Woods, Assoc Principal, Beck Atlanta | Lisa Lanni, Studio Director, MacMillan Pazdan Smith S t u di o D e s c r ip t i on: This studio explores sustainability and community engagement at the urban and building scales. The project site encompasses four blocks in downtown Greenville. The class will explore ways to apply the Framework for Design Excellence at first the urban scale, then the building scale. The first part of the project is the creation of a four block urban plan that includes office, residential and retail uses. Teams will then work on an individual block within their urban plan to develop an architectural solution for their site that will offer the flexibility to adapt to social, environmental and market changes.” A R C H 3 5 1 0 /8 5 2 0 | FLUID STUDIO: A LB RIGH T Poe Mill Thriving: Resilient Neighborhood Development within Greenville’s Textile Crescent G u e s t C r itic s : Augsburg Studio and Faculty S t u di o D e s c r ip t i on: The Upstate of South Carolina was once the center of the nation’s textile industry. In 1930, Greenville was home to 16 cotton mills and two bleacheries, all within three miles of the town’s center. This string of sites came to be known as the “Textile Crescent”. The majority of these plants closed their doors during the last fifty years, leaving behind a network of mill villages without their economic engines. More recently, several of the sites have been redeveloped into popular residential, retail and entertainment centers. Currently, the Poe Mill neighborhood stands as an exception to this trend, but profiteering development, gentrification and displacement are threats which require careful and creative planning.
Rick del Monte Lecturer
Betsy del Monte Lecturer
Faculty:
Dustin Albright Assistant Director
This studio examined alternative forms of redevelopment and reinvestment within former textile communities through the lens of Poe Mill. The studio began by researching five former mill neighborhoods from across Greenville’s textile crescent before applying these tools of analysis and interpretation to Poe Mill. Drawing from contemporary readings and case-studies relating to anti-displacement strategies, as well as site visits and conversations with neighborhood leaders and stakeholders, students worked in teams to develop phased master plans and programming concepts to address overarching themes of: Identity; Community Health and Well-being; Social Equity; Education; Economic Opportunity; Affordable and Sustainable Housing; Community Resilience; and more. Working from the master plans, students divided up to design specific buildings and sites across the range of proposed programs and locations within the Poe Mill neighborhood. Additionally, throughout the semester, the studio has formed a unique collaboration with architecture students and faculty in the “international studio” at the Augsburg Technical University of Applied Sciences in Augsburg, Germany, which is, itself, a former textile capital in Europe.
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A R C H 3 5 1 0 /8 5 2 0 | FLUID STUDIO: E R SOY FORBIDDEN BOOKS LIBRARY S t u di o D e s c r ip t i on: This studio will work on an alternative library prototype, a library to challenge existing taxonomic systems used to categorize books and knowledge. The project will start by putting into question the accepted library typology in architecture in view of how current libraries promise to serve as ‘detention centers’ and mechanisms to control the spread of knowledge. Put differently, we will critically question what a library is in terms of its role as a public space. The interrogation will evolve by discussing what “a book” and “the act of reading” mean or imply in the age of digital media and AI. Students will build two Wunderkammers – cabinets of curiosities (3D collages) that represent their critical standpoints. For the third and longest exercise, they will convert the Greenlink Transit Center (approximately 360 ft x160 ft) at Greenville downtown into an urban scenery serving as both a transit facility and the Forbidden Books Library. Two experts will meet with students as hypothetical clients and help them develop the building program. Throughout the semester, while students will be experimenting with the notion of ‘transient space’ and the technique of ‘cross-programming,’ they will be introduced to various examples of resistant design—anarchitecture. L AR C 8 4 3 0 /A RC H 3510 | INTE R DISCIP L IN ARY D ESIGN AN D RESEARCH Wind River Trust Historic Arboretum Master Plan and Site Design
Faculty:
Ufuk Ersoy
Co-Director of Ph.D. program in Planning, Design and the Built Environment; Associate Professor
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G u e s t C r itic s : Jeff DeBell | Brendan Gardes S t u di o D e s c r ip t i on: Krishnan and Novy wrote, ‘In the twenty-first century, botanic gardens are challenged to address issues that extend beyond the garden walls by placing social and environmental responsibility as key mission drivers. Gardens will play a critical role in addressing global issues such as climate change, food security, biodiversity conservation, environmental education, sustainability, and human well-being.’ In addition, Colleen Dilenschneider found that cultural institutions are highly regarded and trusted organizations by visitors and non-visitors alike. To take full advantage of these opportunities and maintain a high level of public trust, cultural/ mission-based institutions must be able to engage, educate, and inspire users of their sites. Experiences at the pedestrian scale can influence positive change from the individual to the global scale. In this studio, students will work in interdisciplinary teams to research, master plan, and design mission-driven concepts for the Wind River Trust Historic Arboretum site in the Columbia River Gorge region of Washington State. Students will engage stakeholders, research precedents, and analyze ecological, physical, and cultural systems to inform defensible designs that promote environmental, social, and economic health for the project site and region. Students will work from the master plan to site scale, focusing on mission-driven concepts expressed through programs, site organization, materials, and design details.
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Matt Nicolette Assistant Professor
A R C H 3 5 0 0 | I N T RODUCTION TO UR BA N CO N T EXTS Architectural problems related to urban contexts. S t u di o D e s c r ip t i on: ARCH 3500 Addresses architectural problems related to urban contexts, and studies architectural resolutions that explore the interface between buildings and the public realm for sites. Introduces urban design fundamentals, building egress codes, and zoning, and promotes the continued development of architectural, graphic, and oral communications skills.
Faculty:
Julie Wilkerson Senior Lecturer
Thematically the semester focuses on the American workplace. Many Americans spend approximately 1/3 of their lives at work so the benefits of a well-designed workplace are profound. Students will be researching and examining the theme of "work” for the entire semester starting with research into workplace issues related to health, programming, socialization, etc… An important goal of the studio is for students to research and understand both the contemporary city and the contemporary workplace to better design spaces for workers and at the same time design buildings that have a positive impact on the urban context in which they are placed. The site the semester-long project is in Manhattan, NY on 10th Ave. between 26th St. and 27th St. directly adjacent to The Highline.
A R C H 3 5 2 0 /8 5 7 0 | STUDIO U What is required for us to sustainably inhabit the Peninsula of Charleston? S t u di o D e s c r ip t i on: “Human activity has become such a dominant, disruptive source of change on a planetary scale that the biologist Eugene Stoermer coined the term Anthropocene to describe our current planetary epoch. Trends in climate change, a loss of biodiversity, and dissolution of social fabrics can seem already beyond our control or influence. We are at a critical juncture. What does it mean to practice design in the Anthropocene Age? How should we modify our methods, techniques, and strategies when every process and cycle is acceleration along an unknowable trajectory? What is the agency of the urban designer? How do we not just make landscapes, buildings and public spaces, but make change?” - Kate Orff, Toward an Urban Ecology (2016)
Faculty:
Bradford Watson
Director of the Clemson Architecture Center Charleston
This studio starts with the following questions: What is required for us to sustainably inhabit the Peninsula of Charleston? As our anthropocentric actions have a global impact, can we move beyond site net zero towards a new model where our built environment is carbon negative? How do we provide housing and support for those without housing who do not have the financial means to afford housing in the rapidly growing Historic Charleston? The goal of this studio is to critically examine how we build, live and work in a way that is holistically sustainable. Projects should seek to leverage opportunities within existing systems to propose an architecture of triple bottom line sustainability. The project is located in the East Side neighborhood of Charleston. The studio will address the critical needs of affordable housing and workforce housing through density that builds on the community and culture of the East Side and responds to the ever-increasing impacts of climate change.
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A R C H 8 5 1 0 | D E S IG N STUDIO III
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2080: AN ARCHITECTURAL ODYSSEY - HYPOTHETICAL COMMUNITIES BETWEEN THE APOCALYPTIC AND THE EDENIC
G u e s t C r itic s : George Schafer, RA, Ph.D., Architect at BOUDREAUX S t u di o D e s c r ip t i on: The main objective of the studio is to explore architectural strategies that respond to the conditions that climate change is projected to create in six distinctly sites—Kivalina, Alaska; Great Salt Lake, Utah; Elliot City, Maryland; Phoenix, Arizona; and—by 2080. With that aim, students will design a FUTURE COMMUNITY housing for 50 to 100 people responding to the projected climatic conditions of the site in 2080, fifty-seven years in the future. To do it, students will begin first by formulating a hypothesis on future societal and climatic conditions, using data about future climate widely available online, such as climatecentral.org or the EPAs climate projection data (https://www.epa.gov/crwu/climate-and-weather-data-maps); and data about underserved populations affected by climate change and environmental displacement such as migrationdataportal.org. This hypothesis will be developed by the class and shared by all the teams working on that specific site. These will effectively work as the ‘real conditions’ the projects will respond to. As important as the climate, the hypothesis will include an analysis of the social groups it serves. Cultural and Visual References, Between the Apocalyptic and the Edenic In order to formulate the more intangible aspects (cultural, esthetic, visual and others, ) of this Hypothesis 2080, students are encouraged to use references to two cultural tropes that have dominated the debate over environmentalism and climate change during the last 70 years: The environmental apocalypse on one hand, and the Edenic community fully integrated with its natural environment on the other. The image of the world collapsing around us appears in Islamic, Christian, and Buddhist literature, having been a powerful source of spatial imagery for millennia. Now, as climate change awareness grows, the trope of the environmental apocalypse with echoes of the mid-twentieth Nuclear Doomsday clock has become central in the discourse of environmental activism and climate science. Parallelly, we have witnessed a resurgence of apocalyptic narratives in contemporary culture in novels, and innumerable Zombie-based cultural products. In many of these, the downfall of human society and the destruction of the built environment was triggered by a global ecological collapse. On the opposite side, the trope of Eden, of a paradise in which humans are capable of living in perfect harmony with nature, has been part of the aspirational ethos of the environmentalist movement from David Thoreau’s Walden and John Ruskin’s utopian pastoralism to the hippy communes of the 1960 or the contemporary environmentalist resistance exerted by indigenous people across the world. These two narrative tropes—Eden and the apocalypse—cannot simply be turned into solutions or simple responses to the complexities of climate change. Therefore, they should not be embraced as direct design inspirations for our studio’s projects. Instead, they can be understood as two dialectical components that may—and probably should—coexist in tension within our discussions about climate change. In that sense, all studio projects should be simultaneously apocalyptic and paradisiacal.
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David Franco
Co-Director of Architecture Graduate Programs; Associate Professor
Andreea Mihalache
Co-Director of Architecture Graduate Programs; Associate Professor
Brandon Pass Lecturer
L AR C 2 5 1 0 /8 0 1 0 | LA NDSCA P E A R C HITECT U RE D ESIGN F UND A M E N TA LS
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Sustainability and Resilience for an Island Nation. Tarpum Bay Waterfront, Eleuthera, The Bahamas
G u e s t V is ito r s : One Eleuthera Foundation S t u di o D e s c r ip t i on: Coastal and island regions worldwide experience dramatic impacts due to climate change and global warming including increased erosion, changes to local marine habitats, and higher storm surges. Like many coastal and island regions, these adverse effects have impacted the Bahamian island of Eleuthera. The narrow 110 miles long archipelago lies between the Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean Sea and has a population of 11,165.
Hala Nassar
Director of Landscape Architecture and Graduate Programs
This design studio seeks to provide a masterplan and site-specific design solutions for Tarpum Bay Waterfront on Eleuthera. To delve into design, students will work in groups and individually to build a comprehensive understanding and knowledge of the nation of the Bahamas, the Island of Eleuthera, the One Eleuthera Foundation (a non-profit organization), and Tarpum Bay Waterfront and its adjacencies. In this studio we will learn about the challenges facing Eleuthera including environmental and ecological threats, the need for conservation, preservation and repurposing, food security and sustainable agriculture, community development, energy, and water resources, as well as education, technology, and communication needs. In this course we will research and examine case studies from around the world, discuss important landscape planning and design challenges and obstacles, talk about solutions implemented and their efficacy, and conclude with a masterplan and site-specific design for Tarpum Bay Waterfront, Eleuthera, that is well grounded in site conditions and community needs. Students enrolled in this studio course will have the opportunity to work, research, discuss, and design according to the different phases of the design process.
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A R C H 8 5 1 0 | A RC HITE CTUR E + HE A LTH ST U D IO MUSC Indian Lands Health Campus and Hospital G u e s t C r itic s : George Schafer, RA, Ph.D., Architect at BOUDREAUX
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S t u di o D e s c r ip t i on: This semester the Architecture + Health vertical studio has been examining relationships between healthy, sustainable, and resilient healthcare campus design David Allison within a rapidly growing ex-urban context of metro Charlotte, and the design of a community Director of Graduate Studies in Architecture + Health and Alumni hospital to serve the evolving healthcare and health promoting needs of current and future Distinguished Professor of Architecture populations. The overall site is situated in Lancaster County, South Carolina approximately 25 miles south of downtown Charlotte just across the North Carolina border. The entire region south of Charlotte represents an area of rapidly growing suburban sprawl, home to a growing number of people who have migrated from outside of the Carolinas and commute to work by car in the Charlotte metro area. The overall objective of the semester has been to envision a health center campus that promotes healthy living and is accessible, vibrant, resilient, and integrated as a civic anchor for its community. The Indian Land campus should be planned and designed to serve as a model for resilient, equitable, sustainable, and healthy community planning and design focused on protecting, promoting, and restoring health at the scale of the individuals who receive care while considering family and community health needs. The studio has been engaged in site master planning and hospital design proposals for ultimate submission to the ACSA/AIA COTE 10 Student Design Competition and the AIA Design for Excellence Criteria. The initial community hospital program includes approximately 100 inpatient beds and associated diagnostic, treatment, support and community spaces totaling 280,000 GSF. Proposals for the hospital and live-work campus are expected to consider the health and healthcare needs of the surrounding community as it exists today and as it will grow and evolve into the future while minimizing its environmental impact and carbon footprint. Six 2-3 person teams have worked collectively throughout the semester consisting of at least one upper-level student and one first year A+H student. The intent is that each team will benefit from the respective knowledge of research, building systems and/or health facilities planning and design in their other courses that they can use toward developing their projects this semester.
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Lyndsey Deaton Assistant Professor
A R C H 1 0 1 0 | I N T RODUCTION TO A R CHITECT U RE Word’s the Bird(house): Design Languages and Bird Watching Places in Trustee Park
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S t u di o D e s c r ip t i on: The ARCH 1010 studio is structured around a series of exercises that introduce students to design thinking, the iterative process, and other fundamental skills required of designers for success in and beyond architecture school. The students began with an abstract cube design project whose sole purpose was to explore ways a design language could be developed as a three-dimensional form and a series of two-dimensional diagrams. Three design languages were assigned to students from a list of ten: soma cubes, crumpled paper, string, packing, soap bubbles, puff pastry, aggregation, viscous fluid, rhizome, and subtractive. The skills introduced were model building, model photography, hand sketching, digitization and documentation, Photoshop editing, Illustrator diagramming, InDesign layouts, and AutoCad drawing. Throughout the process, students were challenged to think creatively and abstractly and then to represent that output in ways that are both beautiful and technically correct. These skills were practiced during the second half of the semester as well. The last half of the semester was spent designing a birdhouse inspired by one of the earlier design languages. Before the design, students researched birds in SC and chose a bird as an inhabitant. Then, students completed a site analysis of Trustee Park. Finally, students developed a design for the birdhouse and its surrounding area on the site catering to both sets of clients: birds and bird watchers.
Sallie Hambright-Belue Director of Undergraduate Architecture
Harrison Floyd Lecturer
Graduate Assistants: • • • • • • • •
Paige Kooyenga Jennifer Layer Anna Rowell Mina Keshavarzi Marina Ataalla Natalie Wade Kayla Pratt Griffin Naddy
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A R C H 3 5 3 0 /8 5 7 0 | LA R C 3550 | FLUID ST U D IO : GEN OA S t u di o D e s c r ip t i on: In her 2012 book, Toward a Minor Architecture, Jill Stoner proposes a more politicized practice of architecture, one that aims to de-couple architecture from topdown systems of control and forge new interpretations of spatial relationships. In contrast to architectures whose agenda is to subjugate, objectify, or profit, Stoner proposes searching for opportunity in existing and often neglected spaces. This subversive approach highlights and calls on the individual needs and desires of community to establish a transformative approach to design. At the same time, pursuits toward realizing architectural environments that are motivated by core values of autonomy, voluntary association, mutual aid and direct democracy typically stagger or fail completely when faced with the expectations, the dependencies, and the hierarchical bureaucratic organization of government oversight. But what if the individual was empowered with the tools, the techniques, the technology, to transcend these limitations and be the makers of their own environment? How can architects steward this process? Santa Maria in Passione is a former church and convent at the edge of the historical center in Genoa Since 2014, the Centro Culturale Libera Colonia di Castello, a small peaceful anarchist group, have occupied the site. For those who occupy the site it is seen as a cultural center and meeting place; an urban exchange between artisans, artists, students and neighborhood residents. The small group occupying this site are Minor constituents within a larger culture and the site itself is an example of an ‘existing and neglected space’. With this project we will propose a possible near future emerging from a relationship between this community and current technology allowing greater agency and internal control over the development of their own environment. This will be the story of a settlement in Genoa that will autonomously build and restore the site they currently occupy…therefore constructing a Minor Architecture within a dominant – or major – political context.
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Faculty:
David Lee
Genoa PIR/Studio Instructor
Luca Rocco Studio Instructor
A R C H 3 5 4 0 /8 5 7 0 | LA R C 3550 | FLUID ST U D IO : BARCELO N A S t u di o D e s c r ip t i on: The Fall 2023 Barcelona Design Studio project proposes the students to work on the reactivation of the Barcelona Waterfront areas of the Port to design the new central Base and viewpoint for the America’s Cup International Sailing Competition that will be held in Barcelona in 2024. A site in between the urban component of the City and the geographical condition of the Sea, that should be transformed from its infrastructural use into a public space. A Urban Design to make possible that the culture of the Mediterranean public space, the most valuable condition of our Mediterranean identity, could be preserved and reviewed. A challenge extendible to all over the world, with other cities including the transformation of the waterfront on their agendas.
Faculty:
Miguel Roldan
Director, Barcelona Architecture Center; Design Studio Professor
David Espuña
Academic Coordinator and Studio Instructor
The Barcelona Design Studio is an opportunity to work on a real site proposal that demands an understanding of the design as a process of place-making. This procedure implies a comprehension of the geographic conditions, including orientation and views, but also an understanding of the cultural context, with the pre-existences and past layers. The design will therefore have a multiscale sense, from the level of the city, with its urban and landscape conditions, to the level of the building. The process is understood and developed as a comprehensive studio, where multiple complexities intervene, including an intuitive notion of materiality, structure and construction. Developing the design work from a conceptual point of view, but always with the complexity that demands a multiple-layer reading. The program, within a simulation of a competition, is a chance to test the role of the professional practice with compact and brief documentation. Students develop the ability to understand and interpret the complexities as part of the design studio work, giving a response from the urban landscape condition of the city to the building scale level. Throughout the design process, students interact with a complex urban reality and a cultural context different from their own. A travel to get something but to come back to their place and to see the common things from another perspective. And from this perspective understanding where they are. With this process, students feel they are architects and landscape architects from the first day, building their own voice, not becoming Barcelonan but at least imagining that they belong to the site.
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