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AN INFRASTRUCTURE FOR ARCHIVING CLIMATE CHANGE
SPRING 2025 / PROF. PABLO CASTILLO LUNA
How can climate change, and specifically its effects to the water system in usptate New York be archived? This project answers this question in two ways-through an experiental component of living quarters and through a scientific infrastructure for studying and shared climate change's impacts. The project calls for a series of satellite buidlings where sediment cores are taken, studied, and exhibited. This process creates a continous archive of how increased precipitation and flooding changes soil structure, conditions, and brings in new pollution and effluent. Over time, these changes can be visualized through the static sediment cores taken. In the living quarters, residents are put in contact with the water as it moves through the landscape. Grated floors, pipes, and holes in the walls visualize water's temperment and movement through this unique environment, archiving climate change as the water changes in relation to the stable infrastructure of the building. Through a system of cantilevers supported by cables, the building barely grazes the ground, allowing for maximum independence of water and soil movement. In years to come, this building core can be removed, barely leaving more than a small trough of what existed of this building.
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LIVE + WORK + GROW
FALL 2024 / PROF. MUSTAFA ALI FARUKI
This housing proposal for the village of Trumansburg in Upstate New York focused on creating commercial and residential opportunities for prospective residents of Trumansburg to combat the increased dependancy of Trumansburg upon other larger cities, in particular, Ithaca, NY.
In essence, we designed a future for Trumansburg that emphasizes self-sufficiency through communal design of living, working, and growing spaces, so as to bring back the character of Trumansbrug that residents expressed feeling very fond of and connected to. This was done with residential avenues with residential and commerical units that patchwork to create a larger hierarchical framework for developmen, protecing private space and creating exciting public areas for residents and visitors.
This was a group project in conjunction with Saniah Adams (B.Arch ‘27)
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ITHACA LIBRARY (INTEGRATIVE STUDIO)
SPRING 2024 / PROF. MARTA WISNIEWSKA
The task for this project was to design a secondary library in Ithaca, given a specific site. I designed a library that responds to the extremely steep geography of the site, connecting the important road as well as the creek area into one cohesive building.
This project also focused heavily on the logistics of municipal building with a broad range. This included the structural design, environmental anaylsis, acessbility, zoning and ode considerations, HVAC system design and analysis as well as material, formal, environmental, and experiential considerations.
This project expanded my understanding of the scope of architectural design, and gave me a greater deal of experience in the engineering, environmntal, and structural design aspects of architecture. The final model was constructed at a 1/2”=1’ scale to showcase the actual structural system, which in this case was cast concrete and system of steel beams.
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A LAB FOR FERMENTATION
SPRING 2023 / PROF. EKIN ERAR
In this lab for fermenting vetegables, light is the most important variable. This method for the manipulation of the diffusion of light developed from an exploration of transparent layers. Light diffusion and dispersion, which are important factors in the process of fermentation, which requires specific, but variable, amounts of light and darkness to ferment a variety of foods for different final products.
In addition, I extrapolated a system of curves from my study models of light diffusion, which formed the structural basis of the design. The placement of curved walls and windows mediated which areas of the building would recieve the most light in response to their need for darkness or light, also relating to the public and private programmatic considerations of the building.
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