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BEN AIDT + EMMA BANKS + ELEANOR DEDRICK + EMMA HAUSZ + FRANZISKA HOEPFLER + PETER ISKANDAR + SYDNEY JONES + LILY LATULIPPE + SCOTT LAYTON + MEA MCCORMACK + JON MOTT + EVAN NOTH + TRENT RUSNAK + BRIE VOETBERG
ARCH 4002 #006 01. Thesis The studio is based on the thesis that the city of the future cannot be discussed without (re)introducing local, slow, and integrated productive networks into the urban fabric. Living and working conditions must be compatible with spatial and social structures, keeping density high and mobility low.
Those programs are: > Pixel Farming research center > Urban Winery > Textile production/design center > Urban Distillery & biofuel factory > Timber fabrication lab > Prosthetic rehabilitation/research center
03.Up There: Where We will be working at the edge We will challenge our traditional of Cincinnati’s downtown and the binary thinking, which separates banks. We will use our structures to man from nature, buildings from cover I-71 and overcome the city’s the landscape, and cities from the current divisive nature at this point. countryside. We will search for Collectively, we will assign available the compatibility limits between programs to individual plots, based productive, residential, and on the specific requirements each recreational urban structures. We one of them needs to perform at will investigate the benefits of a its best. We will also investigate complex, vertical, multilayered city Cincinnati’s building code to learn and explore an integrative path that how to negotiate vertical growth in blends urban efficiency with rural dense downtown areas. resilience in search of new domains for the uncertain future of post04 Up There: What urban developments. In a nutshell, the studio asks to develop a proposal for a vertical 02.Out There settlement that includes residential, The studio aims to complete the productive and recreational investigation started by the “Out activities. We will pay attention There” graduate design studio not just to the programmatic and during the fall of 2022. Then, the functional development of the students proposed human-centered tower, but also, we will look into settlements built around productive the ground floor in detail, as this programs found in the rural areas of is the main element for urban Ohio. The goal was to define spaces integration and for the construction and programs that could challenge of a continuous and active urban the way humans live, work, and landscape. play together in the rural context of Akron and the abandoned rubber Finally, the studio will carefully bowl stadium. consider technological options. This includes material, tectonic, In that sense, we are going to and thermodynamic strategies recover and extend the lines of that will inform your designs. The investigation initiated by your senior development of those systems need graduate colleagues. Specifically, to be imaginative and experimental, the programs that we are going but also coherent and consistent. to integrate will be the same ones that they developed during last semester, which will be introduced to you in a joint session.
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