FROM REDLINING TO BLUE ZONING EQUITY AND ENVIRONMENTAL RISK, LIBERTY CITY, MIAMI 2100

Exhibition At Mcad

Instructors: Susannah Drake, Rafi Segal Teammate: Olivia Serra

This project exposes the relationship between racial segregation in South Florida and the growing threat of sea level rise and flooding in Miami. By identifying future dry lands and anticipating possible climate gentrification, our proposal offers alternative models for community - based development and equity capture for the low income black neighborhoods of Liberty City.

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DESIGN

III . THE COOPER UNION . SPRING 2021

Instructors: Nima Javidi, Nader Tehrani Individual Work*

From history and economy of the city to the politics of space, almost every aspect of our social life is deeply registered in the urban housing typologies, affordability and blockmassing distributions. Therefore, thinking about housing in architecture should have the capacity to include the widest range of themes around domesticity; yet, for architecture as a discipline to have agency in finding spatial solutions to the problems of housing in our contemporary metropolis, it has to be precise in its conceptual, programmaic, material and structural means and methods.

This studio uses an opportunity of a current public housing competition, called Low Rise: Housing Ideas for Los Angeles as a portal to find access to an in-depth understanding of affordable housing in the city, aiming to envision and contribute innovative new possibilies.

Exquisite Corpse Three Housing Typologies For Urban Block

The project starts with the development of three different typologies, aiming to propose alternative ways to densify existing residential blocks. Each typology has its own formal and organizational agency, while constituting a larger urbanism by calibrating the relationship to each other.

BACKYARD TYPOLOGY

Massing credited to Anderw Song

MID-BLOCK TYPOLOGY

Massing credited to the author

CORNER TYPOLOGY

Massing credited to Tianyang Sun

GROUND FLOOR: POROSITY

The ground floor emphasizes the porosity. Only 1/3 of the building touches the ground, creating thresholds for people and landscape to flow in and out.

SECOND FLOOR: DENSITY

The second floor maximizes the density through an intelligent layout featured a service spine. The south and north facade created different spatial conditions.

THIRD FLOOR: GENERALITY

The third floor features larger terraces that incorporate generous outdoor spaces into the dwelling. The staggering of the terraces brings dynamic to the facade.

INTERLOCKED UNIT PART-TO-WHOLE RELATIONSHIP

Four types of apartment units are interlocked and overlapped in section to create different views and experiences for the residents. This aggregation is enabled by a flexible staircase system. To accommodate different types of families, each unit would have certain degree of freedom to be reconfigured.

This drawing attempts to invent a form of representation beyond the normative techniques by using two techniques: Zip Details and Flipflop Oblique.

CLT wall ext > int rain screen: perforated corrugated metal panel

3’’ cavity/ 1’’steel square pipe facade system

5/8’’ exterior gypsum sheating air/vapor barrier

3’’ perlite insulation

90mm 3-ply clt wall pane

CLT floor assembly: top > bot

2’’ gycrete finish floor

3’’ cellulous acoustic insulation protection membrane 5-ply CLT floor