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+ Design Studio 01 Mexico City Compounds/The Cultural Ecology Corridor
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02 Trueque Truco Trato/Tie-in
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03 Enclave of Inclusion/The Living Monument
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04 The Mega Region/Innovation Hubs
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05 + Elective
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Mexico City | Urban Design | Architecture | Landscape Urbanism | 2015 Mexico City | Urban Design | Architecture | Real Estate| 2014 Mexico City | Urban Design | Architecture 2015 Mexico City | Urban Design | 2014
Liquid Planning/Brookscapes
Cleveland | Urban Design | Water Urbanism | 2015
06 + Competition
Archinet Dry Futures/Apart, We Are Together California | Architecture | Landscape Urbanism | 2015
ULI Hines/ Colle At Faubourgh Treme
New Orleans | Architecture | Neighborhood Revitalization | 2015
Elective/Warehouse Retrofit
Detroit | Architecture | Neighborhood Revitalization | Interior Design | 2015
UM/ULI Detroit/Artisans Neighborhood Underaduate
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07 + Design Thesis/National Tribal University and Museum
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08 + Residential / Mayan Builders and Developers
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+ Institution / Kamalmangal Das Architects
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+ Dumbo Heights / Studio Fantastica
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+ Niagara Street Phase 3 + 4 / Stoss Landscape Urbanism
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+ Uptown EcoInnovation District / Stoss Landscape Urbanism
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+ Smallman Street / Stoss Landscape Urbanism
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+ Mid-West Cultural District / Stoss Landscape Urbanism
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+ East Cambridge Open Spaces / Stoss Landscape Urbanism
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India | Architecture | 2013
India | Architecture | Campus Planning | 2013
Brooklyn | Placemaking | Furniture Design | 2015 Buffalo | Landscape Urbanism | Urban Design | 2015
Pittsburgh | Urban Design | Urban Planning | Landscape Urbanism | 2016 Pittsburgh | Urban Design | 2016
Urban Design | Architecture | 2016 Landscape Urbanism | 2016
Exhibition
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Detroit | Architecture | Neighborhood Revitalization | Real Estate | 2015 India | Architecture | Campus Planning | 2013
Work Experience
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09 + After Oil / Venice Biennale 2016
Architecture | Landscape Urbanism | 2016
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+ Dumbo Heights Public Promenande
Firm : Studio Fantatica Location : Brooklyn, NY
The project is based in Dumbo, Brooklyn. It is a part of a larger mixed use development for techtown in Dumbo. The promenande is the extension of the right of way of a private development - Dumbo Heights. It is a visual gateway from Manhattan to Brooklyn. The proposal presents a similar theme as does the Dumbo Heights; coehesive work and recreational environment. This promenande represents the ever changing landscape, responsive to culture, environment and economy.
Gateway to public events and art in Dumbo, Brooklyn
The axon shows the promenande on Sand st 74
+ Modular Platforms
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+ Modular Public Realm
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+ Niagara Street Public Promenande
Firm : Stoss Landscape Urbanism Location : Buffalo, NY
Niagara Street, from Porter Avenue to Ontario Street, is in the midst of a transformative process from industrial corridor to a vibrant destination that benefits its waterfront proximity and recent increased level of private investment. Its potential key role in the revitalization of Buffalo has been well described in several recent planning studies including One Region Forward’s Imagining the Future of Niagara Street and in the City of Buffalo’s Local Waterfront Revitalization Plan. The scope of work involves urban and ecological spaces; landscape infrastructures; parks and open spaces; furnishings; and storm water infiltration / green infrastructure design. Also, assistance with Community Collaboration, Public Art, and Education. The initial mapping , analysis and ground truthing helped in understand ing of the urban fabric along the Niagara Street while regarding the historic city planning / park system of Buffalo by Ellicott and Olmsted , respectively. The Ground truthing helped in exploring the opportunistic sites , riverfront outlooks, historic structures for public art , land-use and ownership.
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+ Evolution
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Ellicott Radial Plan
Olmsted Park System
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+ Structure
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+ Ground Truthing
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+ Public Art / Monuments Lighting
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+ Construction Drawing - Shoreline Trail
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+ Uptown
EcoInnovation District
Firm : Stoss Landscape Urbanism Location : Pittsburgh, PA
EcoInnovation District is a new model for urban growth that is inclusive, innovative and environmentally sound. There are many challenges to overcome to achieve these goals. Uptown is proximate but disconnected. The area has not experienced the investment and momentum occurring throughout the City. The disinvestment is furthered by the physical characteristics of the place – large vacant lots, parking lots and development that does not actively address the street. Underlying these challenges are issues of access, infrastructure and water—including the significant impacts of stormwater runoff from adjacent areas into the district and of localized air quality problems caused by nearby transportation corridors. The scope of the project considers how can public infrastructure be reconsidered in ways that are more flexible, more multifunctional, more environmentally responsive? The mapping and analysis helped to understand the land, infrastructure and potential vacancy, while benchmarking key environmental charactersitics.
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+ Vacant Green Space
Sunflower Farm
Farmers’ Market
Biomass Yields
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+Accessibility and Park System
Compartive study of the percentage of public open space in districts of Pittsburgh 86
+ Initial Concepts for the proposed Green/Complete Streets
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+ Smallman Street Public Realm Design
Firm : Stoss Landscape Urbanism Location : Pittsburgh, PA
The Strip District has historically been Pittsburgh’s wholesale food district. Busy rail yards served wholesale food distributors and some heavy industry. Today, much of the industry is gone, but the Strip is still home to a thriving food and retail scene that draws visitors from all over. Between 16th and 21st Streets, Smallman was a full fledged rail yard, bounded on the south by multiple warehouse buildings and on the north by the Produce Terminal. Today Smallman is a wide street with roughly 100 feet (width varies) of pavement between the Produce Terminal’s exterior south facing dock and the faces of the buildings on the south side of the street. With such a wide paved expanse, drivers frequently move quickly through the area and crossing safely on foot can be a challenge. Scope of the project intend to improve the quality and qauntity of the public space. It addresses pedestrian mobility and safety; preserve the character of Smallman St.; work with existing loading needs of adjacent businesses.
Map showing the 100 year flood zone , districts and green open spaces in the city of Pittsburgh
Map showing the Smallman Street between 16th and 21st street with popular business in Strip District 88
+ Analysis Historic Raillines
Building use : Entertainment + Eat
Sewer/Stormwater System
Building use : Art, Culture + Religion
Non-Vechicular Access
Building use : Retail + Market
Vechicular Access
Building use : Business + Warehouse
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+ Public Survey
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+ Mid-West
Cultural District Firm : Stoss Landscape Urbanism Location : MId-West, USA
The purpose of this project is to develop and arts- and designcentered neighborhood, built around healthy landscapes and a vibrant public realm, that will reinforce the culture and activities. The framework analysis outlines a strategy for a design-forward, largely residential development based on recommendations taken from the recently completed market study by Development Strategies. It analyzes what level of development is possible by right, based on current land use and zoning regulations. It also outlines a number of potential housing typology and urban development strategies for the site, which could ultimately be designed by a selection of renowned regional and national architects and designers. The code and its implications on development of a generic parcel were studied, then compared with market study suggestions and played out in simple massing on the parcels. Three scenarios are shown, each of which develops all parcels with Max F.A.R., with choice of unit type and setback used altering the overall massing of the site. These studies demonstrate what’s possible on site, by code, but over-build relative to the market study conclusions regarding site capacity.
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Zoning Code Analysis
+ Massing Study
Study of the zoning code and the Development Strategies market study served as the basis for a wide-ranging exploration of possible quantities, heights, diversity of form, and combinations of units that could satisfy both the needs of the market, and provide a unique development strategy that meets basic needs yet is landscape forward and holds the potential to create an artsbased community with areas for active and recreation and social engagement.
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+ Activation and Phasing The proposed development and activation strategy is split into 3 phases. The first establishes a temporary landscape and district marker, creating a hub for food and beverages, a community marker that encourages gathering and temporary interaction with arts installation and maker culture. The second phase builds on initial land activation through the creation of a central park. This park is envisioned as a cultural park which links together arts activation strategies and Green Infrastructure. Also, set stage for residential development to come. The third phase extends these efforts, including implementation of active green streets with a series of pedestrian activation strategies in storefronts and along the blank facades of parking garages and the empty edges of parking lots. The temporary park is expanded when the existing townhouse to the east is demolished, and it’s re-made as a permanent open space that connects the two historic structures. It is programmed as a neighborhood park, but one that takes advantages of the creative arts and maker cultures that may develop in those buildings. Finally, the first phase of townhouse development would move forward along the existing historic townhouse.
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+ Open Space
Existing Street Section
Existing Alley Section
Proposed Green Street Section
Proposed Green Alley Section
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+ Point Park
East Cambridge Public Spaces
Firm : Stoss Landscape Urbanism Location : Cambridge, MA
The City of Cambridge through the Community Development Department, conducted the public Eastern Cambridge/ Kendall Square Open Space Study process to explore ways to integrate these new spaces into the existing open space system in Kendall Square and eastern Cambridge and provide a network of well connected, managed and programmed parks and open spaces that serve a variety of users, and provide a range of experiences and environments. Over 5 acres of new and renovated public open space will be created, primarily at four locations, in the vicinity of Kendall Square in Eastern Cambridge 1. Rogers Street Park 2.TrianglPark 3.Binney Street Park 4.Point Park
Initial concept rendering for Point Park 96
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Image Courtsey : El Hadi Jazairy, Design Earth
Kuwait Pavilion, Venice Biennale Firm : Design Earth Team :El Hadi Jazairy + Rania Ghosn Jia Weng, Rawan Al-Saffar, Kartiki Sharma, Hsin-Han Lee, Namjoo Kim, Sihao Xiong
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+ Das Crude, Drill Baby Drill After Oil is a race to the last drop of oil in the ground: to dig deeper and build higher. Das Crude imagines the island within a subsurface field of depleted oil reservoirs. The site of Das Island offers a way to reconfigure the aesthetic assumptions upon which the totality of high-energy urbanism rests. First, the project recovers the excavated volumes of soil and stone, the insides of the earth that spilled out, to build an artificial mountain on the island. The project then makes visible the displacement of value in oil urbanism by indexing highly symbolic landmarks of the UAE’s urban history in relation to the geological depths of extraction. The porous and fractured rock formations house some of the Gulf’s mot iconic architectural structures. This geographic perspective on energy opens up and materializes the compressed space between the resourceunderground and the city, and by doing that, addresses the political significance of the missing spaces of oil. It points that the history of oil has been an ongoing effort to cope with abundance rather than to procure for shortage.
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+ Strait of Hormuz :
The Grand Chessboard
Located between Oman and Iran, the Strait of Hormuz is the world’s most important oil transit chokepoint with twenty percent of oil traded worldwide moving by tanker through this 34-mile-wide passage. The Strait has never actually been shut down, yet the political and territorial disputes between the Persian Gulf countries, including a long-running dispute between the UAE and Iran over the three islands of Abu Musa, Greater Tunb Island, and Lesser Tunb Island, have constituted a constant anxiety in anticipation of possible obstruction. After oil, the geopolitical Strait is repurposed into a real estate game board, a territorial Monopoly of some sort played between the two traditional opponents and financed with Oil Futures. The geographical feature is designed into a grand chessboard of speculative urbanism. The Chessboard absorbs the three islands amongst the pieces of speculative urban projects. Each chess piece is an iconic project from the history of speculative urbanism.
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+ Bubiyan Islands :
There once was an Island
The end of the Persian Gulf War in 1991 was accompanied, along with the oil fires and oil lakes in the desert, with what is considered as the world’s largest oil spill, an event of cosmic dimensions that drastically affected Kuwait’s costal areas, maritime environment, and ground water resources. Beyond the spectacular and apocalyptic intensity of such event, other forms of violence that are dispersed across space and time are harder to trace. The island’s shoreline, a fluid boundary between land and sea is, constantly moves inland as the size and shape of the island changes. The highest elevation mounds of Bubyian are stabilized with vertical poles that mimic the nabkha typology. Their grounds are consolidated into an archipelago of 16 islands. The island continues to be uninhabited by humans, the islands bear witness to anthropogenic climate change. Their grounds and waters restage a sublime Garden of Eden, hosting sea turtles, Arabic oryx and diverse other forms of wildlife that withstands the temperature and acidity increase of the Gulf. The project gives figurative shape to such formless threats, foregrounding processes of delayed disappearance. 104
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