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TOWARDS AN INCLUSIVE URBAN REGENERATION: Community Engagement in India and China
Sana Ahrar, Rui Wang
RECONFIGURABLE FORMWORK SYSTEM FOR VISION-INFORMED CONFORMAL ROBOTIC 3D
Aureza Zamani, Alale Mohseni, Ozguc Bertug Capunaman
MYCOPRINT: Robotic 3D Printing of Mycelium-based Composites
Alale Mohseni, Benay Gursoy
ENABLING CONCURRENT REINFORCEMENT DURING 3D CONCRETE PRINTING TO CREATE SPANNING STRUCTURES USING TENSILE CABLES
Ali Baghi, Shadi Nazarian, Joes Pinto Duarte, Sven Bilen, Nathan Brown, Ali Memari
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NEW RESEARCH CENTER: E+D: Ecology Plus Design
Andy Cole, Leann Andrews, Travis Flohr, Kendall Mainzer, Stephen Mainzer, Peter Stempel, Hong Wu
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ENERGY JUST CITY: An Evaluation of energy Justice in the City of Baltimore
Arjun K. Janardhanan, Rahman Azari, Lisa Iulo
TEXT INSCRIBED VOXEL GRAMMAR: Computing with Form and Meaning Revisited
Chowdhury Ali Imam, Jose Pinto Duarte, Heather Ligler, Syed M. Billah, Andrew T. Heironymi
ARCHITECTURE AND THE SEARCH FOR SOCIAL SUSTAINABILITY: LowIncome Housing in Brazil
Clarissa Albrecht, Maristela Siolari, Alexandra Staub, Kyle Luong
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COMMUNITY-ENGAGED DESIGN IN BRAZIL: Regenerative Architecture & Social Justice
Clarissa Albrecht, Lisa Iulo, Renato Goncalves, Tiago Leal, Tamires Borges
AUTOMATING THE ADAPTIVE REUSE OF CULTURAL HERITAGE: A Computational Framework for Reconfiguring Historic Masonry Buildings
Daniele Paulino, Heather Ligler, REbecca Napolitano
THE ZAATARI CAMP GRAMMAR
Dima Abu-Aridah, Rebecca Lynn Henn, Jose Pinto Duarte
TOPOLOGICAL SUBJECTIVITY & INSTUMENTAL CONVERGENCE
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REGROFITTING HOUSING FOR PERMANENT AFFORDABLE AND EQUITABLE LIVING: With the State College Borough and Affordable Housing Providers
Holly Zimmerman, Lisa D. Iulo, Sarah Klinetob Lowe
CROSS-DISCIPLINE SERVICE DESIGN PROJECT WITH AN ENTOMOLOGICAL MUSEUM
Negar Dehghan, Parisa Farjamfar, Jordan Wolf, Forough Yazdanpanah, Phil Choo
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DESIGN OPTIMIZATION FRAMEWORK FOR 3D CONCRETE PRINTING OF VAULTS
Goncarlo Duarte, Jose Pinto Duarte, Nathan Brown
A FRAMEWORK FOR INTEGRATING IoT WITH A MOBILE SYSTEM FOR INDOOR AIR QUALITY (IAQ)
Hanin Othman, Rahman Azari, Jose Duarte, Benay Gursoy
ENERGY EFFICIENT RETROFITS: An Exterior Approach to Improving the Performance of the Surburban Wall Section
Holly Zimmerman
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EARLY INTEGRATION OF FABRICATION-INFORMED CRITERIA IN DESIGN OPTIMIZATION
Hossein Zargar, Nathan Brown, Robert Leicht, Alan Wagner
UNDERSTANDING STUDENTS’ DIVERSITY IN INCLUSIVE DESIGN:
A Review of Literature on Students’ Empathy and Prosocial Motivation from Cultural Differences
Huiwon Lim, Jeong Park, Yongyeon Cho
ENHANCING FIRST-GENERATION COLLEGE STUDENTS’ PROSOCIAL MOTIVATION IN HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION DESIGN:
A Review of Literature
Huiwon Lim, Jeong Park, Yongyeon Cho
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THE BALTIMORE SOCIAL-ENVIRONMENTAL COLLABORATIVE (BSEC)
Lisa Iulo, Hong Wu, Rahman Azari, Mahsa Adib, Tasneem Tariq, Arjun K. Janardinhanan
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ELECTROCHEMICAL ENERGY HARVESTING AND STORAGE THROUGH BUILDING SKINS
Jingshi Zhang, Rahman Azari, Ute Poerschke, Derek Hall, Julian Wang
ENVISIONING + CELEBRATING THE HISTORIC SE LANCASTER NEIGHBORHOOD
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FLEXIBLE PERFORMANCE-DRIVEN PARAMETRIC DESIGN METHODS
Laura Hinkle, Nathan Brown
DESIGNING TO IMPROVE ONE HEALTH IN THE AMPHIBIOUS INFORMAL COMMUNITY OF CLAVERITO, IQUIT0S, PERU
Lean Andrews, Rebecca Bachman, Ale Jhonston, Coco Alarcon
INVESTIGATING SALT-INDUCED DECAY: A Sampand Prformed Approach in Architectural Research
Mahan Motalebi, Marcus Shaffer
ENHANCING ENERGY PERFORMANCE OF SINGLE-FAMILY HOUSING THROUGH PARAMETRIC MODELING
Maryam Aman, Ute Poerschke, Jose Pinto Duarte
SIMULATING ACOUSTIC PERFORMANCE OF MYCELIUM-BASED SOUND ABSORPTION PANELS
Natalie Walter, Benay Gursoy
FROM “GRAPHICAL TREATMENT OF COMBINATORICS” TO TILING GRAMMARS
Natalie Walter, Heather Ligler, Benay Gursoy
ENABLING FORMWORK-FREE 3D PRINTING OF SPANNING ROOD STRUCTURES
Nusrat Tabassum, Jose Pinto Duarte, Shadi Nazarian, Ali Memari, Nathan Brown, Sven Bilen
MATERIAL-IN-THE-LOOP FABRICATION: A Vision-Based Adaptive Clay 3D Printing Workflow on Indeterminate Sand Surfaces
Ozguc B. Capunaman, Emily K. Iseman, Benay Gursoy
AUTOMATED MONITORING OF CONCRETE 3D PRINTING USING VISION-BASED SENSING
Paniz Farrokhsiar, Benay Gursoy, Jose Pinto Duarte
DESIGN FOR FLOOD RESILIENCE: With the Borough of Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania
Lisa D. Iulo, Lara Fowler, Rob Nicholas, Nancy Tuana, Courtney Cooper, Casey Helgeson, Nastaran Tebyanian
EXTENDED REALITY (XR) AND DESIGN PROCESS AND WORKFLOW
Sam Moradzadeh, Felecia Davis
DATA-DRIVEN MODELS TO PREDICT URBAN BUILDING ENERGY CONSUMPTION
Sepideh Korsavi, Rahman Azari, Lisa D. Iulo
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DETERMINANTS OF URBAN BUILDING ENERGY CONSUMPTION TO INFORM ENERGY POLICIES
Sepideh Korsavi, Rahman Azari, Lisa D. Iulo
EXPLORING EMERGING METHODS FOR COMMUNITY-BASED RESEARCH IN A POST-PANDEMIC WORLD
Alexandra Staub, Sana Ahrar
DESIGNERLY BEHAVIOR IN OPTIMIZATION STRATEGIES
Stephanie Bunt, Nathan Brown, Catherine Berdanier
INTEGRATING BLUE-GREEN INFRASTRUCTURES IN BALTIMORE:
Decision-Making Approaches to Combine Computational Modeling and Community Interaction
Tasneem Tariq, Lisa D. Iulo, Ute Poerschke, Hong Wu, Travis Flohr, Antonia Hadjimichael
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CRAFTING NOVEL EARTHBAG WALL ASSEMBLIES THROUGH DOMESTIC MACHINE-SEWN BAG PRODUCTIONS
Tiffanie Leung, Marcus Shaffer
RECREATION IMPACTS OT CLIFF RESOURCES IN HARPERS FERRY
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Travis Flohr, Diana Albuja, Andy Cole
COOL ROOFS IN A WARM CITY: Exploring Changes in the Cool Roof Landscape of New York City
Mehdi Heris, Rosy George, Travis Flohr, Andrea Avila
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SIMULATING FUTURE URBAN FOREST SCENARIOS IMPACTS ON MITIGATING MEAN RADIANT TEMPERATURE
Travis Flohr, Lara Garcia, Mehdi Heris, Hong Wu, Mahsa Adib, Justine Lindemann, Margaret Hoffman, Lillard Richardson
PHASE CHANGE MATERIAL (PCM) INTEGRATED BUILDINGS SKINS FOR THERMAL ENERGY STORAGE AND HARVESTING
Zia Mohajer, Rahman Azari, Ute Poerschke, Julian Wang
RESEARCH OPEN HOUSE 2023
COMMUNITY-ENGAGED DESIGN IN BRAZIL Regenerative Architecture & Social Justice
Site & Community Partner
The project site is located at Bairro Nova Viçosa (in red in the bottom image) in Viçosa, a Brazilian municipality in the state of Minas Gerais. Bairro Nova Viçosa is a neighborhood characterized as spatially and socially segregated. It is the most vulnerable neighborhood in the municipality with the highest indexes of illiteracy, poverty, and violence occurrences.
The Associação Assistencial e Promocional da Pastoral da Oração de Viçosa – APOV is a source of community support and education and was the studio’s community partner. APOV is a non-governmental and non-profit organization that develops educational, cultural, and sports actions integrated with the family and spiritual dimension of life and society.
DIRECTED RESEARCH STUDIO
As stated in the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, five areas of critical importance for humanity are People, Planet, Prosperity, Peace, and Partnership. They are a response to current challenges to sustainable development implementation facing climate change and its impacts due to natural resources depletion and environmental degradation; in addition to inequalities that continue to rise among countries while many people still su er from poverty and lack of dignity. Considering the Sustainable Development Goals, this studio related community and sustainability in architecture and urban design through the case of a vulnerable Brazilian neighborhood and the development of an architectural project of a children’s school and community center.
This studio took part of the vision to “catalyst in our collective university e orts to build resilient, inclusive, and sustainable communities on our campuses and across the world.” (Catalyzing a Resilient and Sustainable Future for All 2021-2025 Strategic Plan for the Sustainability Institute at Penn State). With this studio “students engage in applied, real-world projects and research that increases the community’s capacity to make better, more informed decisions to address its sustainability challenges. Student projects do not replace the work of professionals, but act as catalysts to begin new work” (The Sustainable Communities Collaborative).
View of a vacant lot being used as a soccer field by APOV students at Bairro Nova Vicosa.
In red, the two APOV lots. In yellow, public neighborhood plaza. All three elements and sorroundings were objects of interventation through design.
Productive Functionality by Hung Luong, Jake Miller, Miranda Ocampo.
Workshop with Landscape Architecture students who were developing a community-engaged design in Peru. Design reviews with remote participation of community members and Brazilian Architecture faculty besides Penn State faculty members.
From left to right: Intercocking Coomunities by Lea Jabbour and Meghan Nelson; Prosperar by Sol Braxton and Mila Hirsch; Resilient Schools and Community by Brendan Astheimer and Bailee Cota.
Journey of One Community by Alexa Benware and Elizabeth Stefanelli.
Clarissa Albrecht Visiting Professor, Penn State; Assoc. Professor, Architecture, Federal University of Vicosa, Brazil
Lisa Iulo Assoc. Professor, Architecture; Director, Hamer Center for Community Design
Renato Goncalves Director, APOV, Brazil Tiago Leal Head, Elementary and Middle School Program, APOV, Brazil
Tamires Borges Head, Early Childhood Education Program, APOV, Brazil
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DESIGN FOR FLOOD RESILIENCE
WITH BOROUGH OF SELINSGROVE, PENNSYLVANIA
Flooding is the most frequent and damaging natural disaster in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Flood impacts are exacerbated by changes in extreme precipitation and increased development. Finding solutions to such impacts is di cult: managing flood risks requires communities to navigate complex tradeo s between competing values and objectives. The Penn State Initiative for Resilient Communities (PSIRC) provides an environment of shared discovery where people come together to address local resilience challenges of small, riverine communities vulnerable to flood risk. Direct engagement with a ected communities allows identification of problems and options, analysis of potential decisions, planning and design, and informs responsive and e ective implementation projects.
The Susquehanna River and its tributaries are a key component of the regional economy and major contributors to pollution problems into the Chesapeake Bay Watershed. Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania, is representative of more than 70 historically and culturally significant urban centers and agrarian communities along the Susquehanna River valley facing increased risks of floods — resulting in economic, environmental and social stresses — threats that disproportionately a ect low-income households. Selinsgrove, a long-time community partner of the Hamer Center for Community Design at Penn State, asked for help understanding their challenges and opportunities to address both flood risk and economic development.
This partnership allowed PSIRC to deepen collaborations with decision-makers in Selinsgrove and along the Susquehanna while establishing key tools and processes useful for communities struggling to address community climate resilience.
PSIRC brings together experts and pilot engagement in flood-impacted communities along the Susquehanna River to address flood risk and community vitality. This pilot project includes two components:
1) working with Selinsgrove, PA to develop a plan for community climate resilience; and, 2) broadly engaging with stakeholders and decision-makers about flood resilience in Pennsylvania’s riverine communities in the Susquehanna River Basin.
Partners and Collaborators
Selinsgrove Borough Council and Borough Manager’s O ce, Susquehanna University, Susquehanna River Heartland Coalition for Environmental Studies, Chesapeake Bay Foundation, Chesapeake Bay Commission, SEDA-COG; Pennsylvania DCED, DCNR, DEP, Fish and boat Commission; Susquehanna River Basin Commission, PEMA, FEMA, MARISA; Penn State E+D, IEE, Sustainability Institute, Dr. Alfonso Mejia, David Goldberg, Stephen Mainzer, Ryan Russell, Alexandra Staub; Dr. Donald Duke, Florida Gulf Coast University.
Gratitude to many others!
PSIRC was launched in 2019 with seed funding from Penn State’s Provost’s o ce in support of the University Strategic Plan.
Leadership Team: Lisa D. Iulo, Director; Lara Fowler, Robert Nicholas, Nancy Tuana.
Research Team: Courtney Cooper, Casey Helgesson, Mathew Lisk, Kelsey Ruckert, Sanjib Sharma, Virginia Silvis, Nastaran Tebyanian
PSIRC Alumni: Ashna Arora, James Doss-Golin, Lacey Goldberg, Iman Hosseini-Shakib, Micaela Hyms, Klaus Keller, Shannon Leninger, Suhail Mahmud, Cassandra Troy, Rui Wang, Maggie Zarekarizi
Undergraduate Classes: LARCH 414, Spring 2019 & Summer 2020; Arch 231: Fall 2021, GD Practicum, Spring 2021.
References
https://www.psirc.psu.edu
Cooper, C., Helgeson, C, Troy, C., Keller, K., and Tuana, N. (Preprint). “What do people care about when managing flood risks? A values-informed mental model approach. SocArXiV Papers.
https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/wkgjp/
Iulo, L., A. Arora, L. Fowler, L. Goldberg, C. Helgesson, K. Keller, R. Nicholas, S. Sharm, N. Tebyanian, N. Tuana, and M. Zarekarizi (2020). “Establishing priorities for Pennsylvania Community Flood Resilience. White paper on outcomes from from a workshop held on September 27, 2019 in Selinsgrove, PA.
Iulo, L. D. (2020). "University-Community partnership to address community vitality and flood resilience." EAAE-ARCC International Conference. ISBN/ISSN #/Case #/DOI #: http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/EAAE-ARCC-IC-2020.2020
Hani, U. and Iulo, L.D. (2019) Community Resilience in the face of Riverine Flooding: Applying Lessons from Resilient Competitions to Pennsylvania’s Vulnerable Communiites. Proceedings of ARCC 2019 Conference, Toronto.
Questions posed to community members and decision-makers to inform research on community vitality and flood resilience for Selinsgrove, PA and regional riverine communities.
2006 plan for Selinsgrove Borough, Penn State Hamer Center for Community Design.
PSIRC hosted Selinsgrove community event to share and collect data on localized flooding and flood resilience.
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Lisa D. Iulo Assoc. Professor of Architecture Director, Hamer Center for Community Design
Lara Fowler Teaching Professor, Penn State Law; Interim Director, Sustainability Institute
Rob Nicholas Assoc. Research Professor, EESI; Director, Center for Climate Risk Management
Nancy Tuana DuPont/Class of 1943 Professor, Philosophy and Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies
Courtney Cooper Postdoctoral Scholar, EESI
Casey Helgeson Assoc. Research Professor, EESI
Nastaran Tebyanian Research Scientist, Water Institute of the Gulf
