UMSoA Fall 2016 Final Reviews

University of Miami School of Architecture

FINAL JURY REVIEWS

FALL 2016

Friday, December 2 - Wednesday, December 7, 2016

Dear Guests, Faculty and Students, At the end of each term, UMSoA students, faculty, guest critics and members of the community participate in the Final Review, a tradition that has long defined architectural education in North America. Alternative models for the submission and evaluation of student work at the end of the term exist, but none have seriously challenged this institution despite some of its pedagogical shortcomings. Arguably, the pedagogical benefits do not entirely account for the enduring success of the traditional Final Review. Equally important is the public aspect of the event: how the work, the ideas that drive it and the debates that it generates are exposed to the public in a participatory event. Our Final Reviews enact the broader cultural relevance of our projects at UMSoA and demonstrate the diverse ways in which we tackle them. Most valuable are instances where comments depart from individual projects to launch into a broader discussion about the ideas that animate the school and position our efforts in the ongoing public debate.

Rodolphe el-Khoury, Dean School of Architecture University of Miami

ROOMS JMPAC 108

Glasgow Lecture Hall

JMPAC 120

Korach Gallery

B.48E 120

Old Gallery

B.49 240

Jury Room

B.49 340

Drawing Room

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BJ Miami

Courtyard Brown Jordan Showroom

FINAL REVIEWS at the University of Miami UM SoA - 1223 Dickinson Drive, Coral Gables, FL 33146 at the Brown Jordan Showroom, Miami Design District 3625 NE 2nd Avenue, Miami, FL 33137

FRI. 02

SAT. 03 UPPER LEVEL

ARC 607

9:00 AM - 12:30 PM

ARC 101

9:00 AM - 2:30 PM

JMPAC 120

JMPAC 120

MON. 05 9:00 AM - 12:30 PM

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UPPER LEVEL

ARC 305

1:30 PM - 5:00 PM

1:30 PM - 5:00 PM

JMPAC 120

B.48E 120

JMPAC 120

BJ Miami

JMPAC 120

B.48E 120

B.49 240

B.49 340

DECEMBER 2 - 7, 2016 TUE. 06

WED. 07 ARC 601

ARC 608

9:00 AM - 12:30 PM

B.48E 120

9:00 AM - 12:30 PM

9:00 AM - 12:30 PM

B.48E 120

JMPAC 120

ARC 604

UPPER LEVEL

ARC 203

9:00 AM - 12:30 PM

B.49 240

UPPER LEVEL

1:30 PM - 5:00 PM

1:30 PM - 5:00 PM

B.48E 120

JMPAC 120

B.49 240

B.49 340

JMPAC 120

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2 9:00 AM TO 12:30 PM

UPPER LEVEL

UPPER LEVEL NEIGHBORHOOD METABOLISM Instructor: James Brazil How can we improve urban resilience by reducing environmental impact on the global economy, with architectural interventions and neighbourhood strategies that propel macro-scale (city+regional) social and economic development? This studio will develop and implement alternative urban planning + design practices within a local neighbourhood by investigating local demand on consumables; food, water, energy and materials; coupled with the aim to increase efficiency (preservation, storage and distribution). These will drive strategically urban, communitybased, self-sufficient architectural scale proposls. Key themes: urban metabolism, community diagnostics, partici- patory planning, collaborative design, digital fabrication and self construction.

JMPAC 120

FRIDAY, DECEMEBER 2 1:30 PM TO 5:00 PM

UPPER LEVEL

UPPER LEVEL - VERTICAL DESIGN STUDIO AN URBAN CAMPUS IN COCONUT GROVE Instructors: Frank Martinez with Robert A.M. Stern, Victoria Baran, and Michael McGrattan, RAMSA Associates The integration of Architecture and Urban Design as is the integration of Theory and Practice shall be a primary goal of the studio. The faculty, a unique team of professionals and academics, will give emphasis to: Research, Applied Learning, Drawing & Making and the Teaching of Practice. The architectural projects focus intends to address the timeless needs of the present while the framing Architecture and the design of the city as a singular investigation. Inquiry, history and Invention shall be interwoven in the commitment and pursuit of Excellence for the Built Environment. The subject of the design will be Visioning, New Buildings and Place Making for St. Stephen’s Episcopal Day School in Coconut Grove, Florida. The studio includes a field trip/ session in New York from Friday Sept. 23 to Monday September 26, at the office of Robert A. M. Stern Architects, to share and advance the project objectives, within the broader field of Practice.

JMPAC 120

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2 1:30 PM TO 5:00 PM

UPPER LEVEL UPPER LEVEL - HEALTHCARE DESIGN STUDIO AN INTERSECTION OF HEALTHCARE AND LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE: A NEW LIFE FOR DEAD MALLS Instructors: Deborah Franqui, PhD with Margarita Blanco and Michelle Marie Cintron, Arquitectonica GEO The Healthcare Design Studio will explore innovative design solutions by retrofitting outdated strip malls and turning them into modern outpatient clinics. Landscape architecture and daylight integration will be utilized to promote healing environments for patients and comforting yet dynamic habitats for families and staff. Current urban strip malls are strategically located within neighborhoods, providing a great opportunity to bring health care to our opportunity to bring health care to our communities. Due to the socio- economic decline and the glut of retail stores, these malls are no longer contemporary architecturally and therefore have limited greenery. We will be concentrating on the adaptive re-use of these “dead� malls to provide convenient access to health care and a healing environment by employing green roofs, courtyards, living walls and greenways & trails, and the integration of daylight within structure. The program will include the design of a primary care clinics for seniors, children or adults, support services such as laboratories, pharmacies, and imaging, and retail facilities. Studies & analyses of the existing sites, their traffic patterns, and their landscape and daylight integration opportunities will be performed. Evidencebased design research will be conducted. The healthcare components will be designed as a kit of parts. 3-D modeling techniques and new analyses will be employed. These design solutions will encourage developers to retrofit and re-green dead malls, therefore stimulating their habitation and creating access to healing, comforting, yet dynamic environments that promote the well-being of our communities.

B.48E 120

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2 1:30 PM TO 5:00 PM

UPPER LEVEL

UPPER LEVEL MOBILE CHICKEN COOP Instructors: Jim Adamson, Rocco Ceo This studio will engage in a semester long design and building exercise that allows students to realize the construction of a mobile chicken coop for Empower Farms. Students will design and build a collective project that best suits the needs of a client who will own and operate it. In addition to a comprehensive design project, the studio will cover the use of tools, materials evaluation, materials cost estimating and finishing, construction documents, the use of models and mock-ups and finally the design and building of a structure for poultry. This studio is for motivated, collaborative and committed students, interested in seeing their design ideas built.

JMPAC 120

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2 1:30 PM TO 5:00 PM

UPPER LEVEL

UPPER LEVEL HOTEL STUDIO Instructor: Allan Shulman The resort hotel is not a new building type. Resort hotels flourished in the 19th and 20th centuries, especially in Florida where they also participated in the foundation of cities. In the 21st century, the resort hotel type has been radically transformed. Increasingly focused on exclusive adventures, health and fitness, and emotional and experiential revitalization, they are more often located in out of the way spots. Beyond amenities, resort hotels are about lifestyle; they are playgrounds where tourists assume new identities. They have become cultural icons.

This sponsored, upper level design studio will explore hotel design and hospitality architecture in the context of a resort project on the Windward Island of Grenada. The project will study appropriate planning and architectural types, the relationship of public and private spaces and the interrelated issues of culture, climate, environment, and lifestyle in resort design. The undeveloped site, at the tip of a peninsula, is complex, and includes steep slopes, mangrove areas, a beach and a rocky promontory. The studio will use documentation and analysis to explore the resort hotel type from historical and contemporary perspectives, and each student will define a distinct identity for their hotel. The studio will include a trip to Grenada to further explore both the hotel program and the site.

BJ Miami

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 3 1:30 PM TO 5:00 PM

ARC 607

UPPER LEVEL FLORIDA KEYS CENTER FOR CLIMATE CHANGE AND COASTAL RESILIENCE Instructors: Armando Montero, David Trautman An interdisciplinary center that conducts research on the interactions of coastal ecosystems, and the built environment as affected by climate change. The mission of the Center is to understand the ways coastal ecosystems have adapted to change in the past and to project their response to future changes.

Student will employ in their designs, investigations on the natural environment and carry them forth to the built environment where strategies for adaptability are proposed, evaluated and integrated into one harmonious design solution.

JMPAC 120

MONDAY, DECEMBER 5 9:00 AM TO 12:30 PM

ARC 101

B. ARCH. ARCHITECTURE DESIGN I Instructors: Adib Cure, Cristina Canton, Alice Cimring, Jorge Hernandez, Teofilo Victoria This design studio, the first of ten required, is intended to introduce freshmen students to the pedagogy of the University of Miami School of Architecture: one that posits architecture as a civic art. In this role, architecture conciliates societal and natural structures. Students engage in field documentation and representation of local places. They analyze and codify compositional and proportional ordering systems from the master works. They then project new compositions based on their previous learning. The introduction to history, theory and the analysis of architectural works informs the creative act of design. The classical distinctions of hierarchical meanings such as symbolic, representational and imitative power of architecture, the theory of aesthetics and norms of architectural composition are all part of the learning experience. From early on, students are made aware of the delicate reciprocity between the natural and built environment, ergo the importance of an attitude of economy and propriety in his new environmental age. Students are exposed to a range of buildings from the vernacular to high style architecture, but they learn that dignity and integrity may be present in the architecture which is modest as well as in one which is monumental.

Architecture is presented as a humanistic discipline in with a pivotal role in the service of the human community entire. Design can critique and perpetuate this vision of a humanistic architecture.

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MONDAY, DECEMBER 5 1:30 PM TO 5:00 PM

ARC 305

B. ARCH. - ARCHITECTURE DESIGN V MIAMI BEACH SOCIAL HOUSING PROJECT Instructors: Germane Barnes, Roberto Behar, Juan Calvo, Veruska Vasconez This Semester’s project will investigate housing design in the context of an urban district balanced between historic, tourist and social uses and newer residential buildings. The social housing project will be situated in Miami Beach, in an area internationally known as South Beach. The exceptional site, along Biscayne Bay, comprises a number of characteristic features of the neighborhood.

Besides facing the bay, it adjoins high-rise buildings both from the sixties and seventies and of recent construction. These buildings are both dedicated, to social housing and luxury living.

JMPAC 120

B.48E 120

B.49 240

B.49 340

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 6 9:00 AM TO 12:30 PM

ARC 601

UPPER LEVEL/MUD INTRODUCTION TO URBAN DESIGN Instructor: Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk This studio will introduce students to the principles and process of urban design. Beginning with the study of precedent and the analysis of regional context and place types, the semester’s work will sequentially proceed through the structure of the neighborhoods, the design of the master plan, public space, street sections, and building types; the transect, regulating plans, guidelines and codes; and character illustrations. Each step, from research to illustration, will accumulate on a week by week basis as a series of deliverables that summarize the work of the semester and emulate a professional project final report.

The subject of the design will be a greenfield quarter- section (160 acres) in South Carolina.

Historical Concepts will sponsor a class field trip in October to visit historic Charleston, a premier example of early American settlement and recent urban preservation and revival; the sity; and I’On, a new community designed according to the principles of the New Urbanism. A second field trip, also in October, will visit four new towns in the Florida Panhandle.

JMPAC 120

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 6 9 AM TO 12:30 PM

Top Image: designed by Jurg Conzett Bottom Image: designed by Lyman Phillips

ARC 604

M.ARCH.

Instructor: Jacob Brillhart This course is for 1st year, 1st semester graduate students - it is an introduction to architectural design stressing the use of research, analysis, and precedent as a means of developing a meaningful design process that creates evocative spatial experiences through architecture.

The pedagogical aim of this course is two-fold. It first serves as an intensive introduction to the fundamentals of design, explored through the natural world of South Florida’s landscape. Secondly, coursework is designed to impart specific skills associated with the development of architectural ideas as well as their visual representation. These skills range from techniques of hand drafting to generation of 3-D computer models, physical model building, sketching, diagramming, and computing. Through exercises, students gain a deeper understanding of the principles that lie at the core of each architectural technique.

B.49 240

COMMUNITY RESILIENCE + RELIEF CENTER

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 6 9:00 AM TO 12:30 PM

ARC 608

UPPER LEVEL

Instructor: Denis Hector In the aftermath of tropical storms, power outages, heat wavers, floods, cyber-attacks, and other disruptions, residents turn to nearby community centers and community institutions for water, food, showers, electrcity, healthcare, a safe place to sleep, and other support. Presently, various buildings such as churches, elementary schools, clinics, or neighborhood centers act as de facto “Community Relief Centers.� Given the escalation of climate-related events, communities in particularly vulnerable areas have begun to strategize a more effective network of community education and support to prepare for, and provide services during and after events.

Over the last decade, the Miami Dade County Department of Parks Recreation and Open Spaces has developed an award winning masterplan based on quarter-mile access for every resident to a park or open space. Drawing upon the extensive process of community consensus that is the foundation of the plan, and the potential for walkable access to park locations, this Studio proposes prototypes for a system of Community Resilience + Relief Centers sited throughout the MDPROS system to serve the community as an educational and preparatory resource, with the capacity to provide services and support throughout the entire life cycle of a hazard event, from preparation for an emergency response through full recovery.

B.48E 120

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 6 1:30 PM TO 5:00 PM

ARC 203

B. ARCH. - ARCHITECTURE DESIGN III THE URBAN CHALLENGE Instructors: Jaime Correa, Steven Fett, Rick Lopez, Oscar Machado, Jorge Trelles The studio will stress the topics of sustainability, urban resilience, building adaptation, and the impacts of climate change and sea-level-rise on our urban communities. Assignments and workshops are designed to build an understanding of what this might mean at a personal and at a communal level. A series of documentation drawings, incremental exercises, site visits, studio lectures, colloquiums, workshops, and walking tours will provide an advanced design knowledge base. The studio will discuss a diversity of urban and architectural design techniques, will establish parameters for the documentation of natural resources and urban/architectural precedents, will look at real estate development on both the shadow of speculation and the light of autonomy, will introduce library resources and urban cartography as design tools, will familiarize participants with the usage of American Insurance Maps, will emphasize the notions of neighborhood design, dwelling density, and mix-use intensity, and will introduce students to new graphic documentation techniques and perceptual principles including a diversity of readings for the relationship between the natural environment and its urban structure and architecture. Housing and generative form-based coding theory and practice may be discussed in the context of their potential legal and administrative framework for city building. The studio will build upon the professional and philosophical experiences accumulated by the Faculty -including their involvement as pupils of Collin Rowe and Andres Duany, members of The New Urbanism™ movement, and Public Mentors for Climate Reality, the bottom-up non-profit organization directed by Vice-President Al Gore.

B.48E 120

JMPAC 120

B.49 240

B.49 340

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7 9:00 AM TO 12:30 PM

UPPER LEVEL

UPPER LEVEL PATHWAYS OF CHANGE Instructor: Sonia Chao with Kathy Hagemann Sustainability Coordinator, Miami-Dade County The focus of this studio lies at the intersection of resilient design principles, sustainable development, and a strengthened regional transportation system. Students will design a new Intermodal Transportation Station in Miami’s Arch Creek Neighborhood, precisely where the Florida East Coast’s (FEC) North/South railway tracts intersect with a major East/West thoroughfare (125 Street). The building’s design will reflect its equally important function as a Community Center (Resilience Center), serving as a distribution hub during or post emergencies / disasters, and as commercial venue and gathering place on a daily basis, accommodating a Farmer’s Market.

B.48E 120

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7 2:00 PM TO 4:00 PM

UPPER LEVEL

UPPER LEVEL – PRACTICUM STUDIO PROFESSIONAL ENGAGEMENT + ACADEMIC RESEARCH Instructor: Wyn Bradley / Host Offices: DPZ, Duany Plater-Zyberk & Co. , Florez Lopez Architects, JLH Architects and Perkins & Will Integrative Learning: The aim of this upper-level studio + research seminar is to form a bridge between academic investigation and professional practice. This opportunity will challenge the mature architectural student to integrate what they have learned within the classroom and operate within a professional environment. Additionally, the student will embark on an academic researchbased topic. Brining academia’s experimental, innovative and creative capacity into the professional realm. Students will be matched with a host office and expected to work 40 hours a week at their placement. 50% of the time, 20 paid hrs. weekly, will be spent working on office projects and 50% of the time, 20 non-paid hrs weekly, will be spent advancing scholarly research. Once a week students will meet on campus for a group research seminar, professional reflection and participate in the evening lecture series.

JMPAC 120

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2 UPPER LEVEL - 9:00 AM TO 12:30 PM

at UMSoA

JMPAC 120

Brazil Donnie Garcia-Navarro Corey Weiss Avleigh Du Gabriel Fischler Andrew Schneider Samantha Schneider Zachary Silver Davin Stancil Yuanxun Xia Shaikha Al Duwaisan Randa Hadi Dorianne Paris Dutari Chloe Pereira

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2 UPPER LEVEL - 1:30 PM TO 5:00 PM JMPAC 120

Martinez/RAMSA Carolyn Anderson Claudia Ansorena Hannah Breedlove Tyler Many Reem Najjar Smitha Vasan Nora Gharib Yeping Cao Jingbo Sun

B.48E 120

Franqui/Arquitectonica Yuyang Chen Yi Chiou Carlos Morales Sheena Ramnarine Karim El Ibiary Ebrahim Alkhalifa

at UMSoA/Brown Jordan Showroom, Miami Design District

B.49 240

Adamson/Ceo Anthony Carden Jie Su Taylor Brophy Rogello Cadena Gerardo Delgadillo Nicholas Delgado Alcega Maura Gergerich Adriana MacKliff Megan Pimentel Lacey Stansell Jessica Stefanick Samuel Wyner

BJ Miami

Shulman Claudia Aguado Carnilli Antoine Laduron Xiaodi Liu Valentin Secq Alyssa Atkinson Lok Chan Erron Estrado Danielle Todd Rhys Gilbertson Maria Paes de Andrae Lope

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 3 UPPER LEVEL - 9:00 AM TO 12:30 PM JMPAC 120

Montero/Trautman Noor Al-Hazeem Rene Bello Junjie Bu Sophia Cain Emily Elkin Sloan Elsesser Marina Engel Cauhy Bevilacqua Brendan Fagan Jiayi Li Gabriel Lopez Zengjunyun Qiao Andrew Richier

at UMSoA

MONDAY, DECEMBER 5 ARC 101 - 9:00 AM TO 12:30 PM C

Hernandez Yasser Abualfaraj Okan Has Daniel Kamb Alexandra Kupi Alexandra Leitch Aurelio Leyva Karlie Lobitz Daniel Morgan Levy Yemin Yan

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Victoria Maaryam Alanzi Lulwah Aldamkhi Mikayla Allen Joshua Kaufman Christian Meyer Jheanelle Miller Morgan O’Brien Alexandra Remos Rebecca Rudner

at UMSoA

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Canton Maria Aparicio Alexandra Cherem Valeria Dimitryuk Shariq Ishaque Gretchen Lemon Jichu Li Isabella Santos Olivia Schilling Haoran Wang

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Cure Michael Cannon Sofia Kiblisky Hunter Kronk Maria Lira Adrian Malek Matbooli Hannah Rodriguez Madison Seip Sofia Silva Cadena Channing Washlesky

MONDAY, DECEMBER 5 ARC 305 - 1:30 PM TO 5:00 PM JMPAC 120

Barnes Feras Almadhi Catalina Chaves Qiazi Chen Maxwell Erickson Jason Mahadeo Bernardo Rievling Adrianna Riveria Michaela Senior Caitlin Smith Ashley Zambrano

B.48E 120

Behar Nishi Bordia Gabriella Feito Jacob Gardner Chesney Henry Nathan Morales Flavia Russo Dylan Starr Arnost Wallach Jorge Trelles Junyong Wu

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Cimring Faris Al Aswad Tiffani Banks Megan Browne Ryan Daniusis Clarissa Hellebrand Biasini Stefanie Levy Brendan Riggs Tanner Wall Shimeng Yang Weiyi Zheng

at UMSoA

B.49 240

Vasconez Andrew Clum Luis Delgado Andrea Hernandez Lorena Knezevic Olivia Kramer Nicholas Meury Jose Mozza Maria Ramos Robert Soldano Jaime Toro

B.49 340

Calvo Sandra Camejo Yasemin Cetinalp Christopher Damico Kurt Gessler Nicole Janek Ashley Katz Juan Ochoa Alyssa Osborn Xiangyu Shao Alexander Underwood

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 6 UPPER LEVEL - 9:00 AM TO 12:30 PM JMPAC 120

Plater-Zyberk Brandon Fennell Xiang Li Xiying Li Xinyuan Shi Wang Jing Bruna Bacchi Tingting Pan

B.49 240

Brillhart Jessica Abecassis Aigerim Amirova Evan Bobo Melissa Ledezma Andrew Lionikis Maria Noriega Guerrero Matthew Reger Junkang Shao Kyrah Williams

at UMSoA

B.48E 120

Hector Rekaz Aljedaani Shahad Alsulalmani Mohammed Alwadle Hussain Binafif Massel Bostan Wenxin Jiang Hannah Landman David Makhan Nika Mirrafie Yuxuan Niu Nahar Rushdi Beatriz Santos Jingshi Wang

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 6 ARC 203 - 1:30 PM TO 5:00 PM B.48E 120

Trelles Abdulaziz Alghannam Youssef Alkhamees Shuail Alshuail Sixue Chen Juan M. Guareschi Mujica Jiaqui Huang Rachael Liberman Sheng Qian Claudia V. Silva Julia R. Zollner

JMPAC 120

Machado Bita Abadian Jesse Alvarez Yasmine Benchekroun Michael Burke Joshua Kleinberg Beltran Lozano Sol Perchik Andrea Szapiro Lyndsey Weeks

at UMSoA

B.49 240

Fett Moises Abbo Mizrachi Ahmed Alanezi Felipe Arias Bernute Agustin Daniella Cancel Frances Gelbart Shannar O’ Connor James O’ Keefe Jingyi Xu Lei Xu

B.49 340

Lopez Saad Alhajri Laura Beltran Siyu Deng Regyne Hertelou Elsa Hiraldo Fioriana Larche Israel Martinez Emily Suarez Ali Tanriyar TIanyu Wang

JMPAC 120

Correa Sarah Alnoman Amanda Arrizabalaga Maan Ezmirly Kyle Ferry Deborah Herington David Holmes Sydney Maubert Julia Murdoch Hannan Vilchis Zubi Zarreta

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7 UPPER LEVEL - 9:00 AM TO 12:30 PM

at UMSoA

B.48E 120

Chao John Gonzalez Ariana Melendez Djoumblat Jessica Masangu Evelyn Vega Siyu Wang Catherine Batista Camille Cortes Ashley Galvankar Austin Rico Marcus Riley Kaidi Wei Yating Yang

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7 UPPER LEVEL - 2:00 PM TO 4:00 PM JMPAC 120

Bradley Joshua Durkee Daniel Jones Nika Mirrafie Mary Wissinger

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FINAL REVIEWS at the University of Miami UM SoA - 1223 Dickinson Drive, Coral Gables, FL 33146 at the Brown Jordan Showroom, Miami Design District 3625 NE 2nd Avenue, Miami, FL 33137

CONTACT University of Miami School of Architecture 1223 Dickinson Drive Coral Gables, FL 33146 p: +1 (305) 284-3731 www.arc.miami.edu

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