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The School of Architecture and Planning University at Buffalo The State University of New York 125 Hayes Hall Buffalo, NY 14214-8030 www.ap.buffalo.edu www.ap.buffalo.edu/publications

Intersight is an annual publication that highlights the work of students at the School of Architecture and Planning at the University at Buffalo.

The intent of this journal is to record current design preoccupations and scholarship. This issue reveals courses and work completed throughout 2015. Intersight Volume 18 seeks to provide meaningful insights into design, ideas, and the life of the Buffalo School.

All photographs and drawings are courtesy of the contributors and students unless otherwise noted. Every reasonable attempt has been made to identify owners of copyright. Errors or omissions will be corrected in subsequent volumes. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from the publisher, except for copying permitted by section 107 and 108 of the U.S. Copyright Law and except by reviewers for the public press. Every effort has been made to see that no inaccurate or misleading data, opinions, or statements appear in this journal. The data and opinions appearing in the articles herein are the responsibility of the contributor concerned.

Editor / Graphic Design: Brian Fiscus Assistant to the Editor: Lesley Loo Typeset in SansSerif Printed by Chakra Communications, Inc. 2016 School of Architecture and Planning University at Buffalo, The State University of New York All rights reserved 18 | First Edition Cataloging-in-Publication Data Intersight Volume 18 ISBN: 978-0-9973650-0-9

Dean's Acknowledgments

We are proud to present this year's edition of Intersight, the University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning's annual journal of student work. The following pages demonstrate the ways in which we mobilize architecture and planning together as change-agents in an increasingly complex and interconnected world.

From developing ecologically inspired design interventions in rural China to master planning for a sprawling suburb of Seoul, South Korea, our students are reaching across geographies and disciplines to address new challenges in urbanism. At the same time, our work is the result of an ongoing collaborative endeavor with our regional context, a "city-astextbook" approach that catalyzes design and planning innovation for the betterment of place and community. As a national write-up on our school in The Chronicle of Higher Education recently stated, "Plenty of other colleges and universities work to help redevelop their communities, but few on anything like this scale or for as long."

This collection of our work in 2015 reflects the rising prominence of our program on a global stage. Consider the stellar performance of our solarpowered GRoW Home at the 2015 Solar Decathlon sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy. The result of a two-year design-build effort involving more than 200 students across the university, the GRoW Home placed second overall in the international competition and now returns to UB's South Campus, where it will be permanently installed as a center for energy and design research. Meanwhile, our students experiment with architectural applications for glass in partnership with the worldrenowned Corning Museum of Glass. Our urban planning students are building sustainable food systems in communities across the U.S. through a five-year grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. We are on the frontier of knowledge and rooted in community and practice.

Sources of inspiration and pride, the work of our students also demonstrates their preparedness for the professions of architecture and planning. Enterprising "makers" and "doers," agile collaborators, and activist-minded practitioners, they are already putting our disciplines to work at the local and global scale. As I consider the body of our work in 2015, I am encouraged by what lies ahead. Read on and join us in celebrating the culmination of our work in 2015.

Robert G. Shibley, FAIA, FAICP Professor and Dean

The Approach Editor's Acknowledgments This publication is made possible through the Fred Wallace Brunkow Fellowship, an endowment created by Kathryn Brunkow-Sample and Steven B. Sample, former president of the University at Buffalo, and the continued generosity of Cannon Design. Their commitment to the School of Architecture and Planning is greatly valued.

I would like to express my gratitude to Dean Robert Shibley, Interim Chair Despina Stratigakos, Chair Omar Khan, and Chair Ernest Sternberg.

Without their support, this publication would not be possible. Additionally, my sincerest appreciation goes to my faculty advisors, Julia Jamrozik and Jordan Geiger; their guidance and advice helped shape this publication in ways I could not have imagined and have helped facilitate my explorations within the medium of publication. Thank you to Lesley Loo for your dedication to this year's Intersight, and I very much look forward to seeing your publication next year. Finally, thank you to my family, especially to my mother and father, who have always believed in me and supported my aspirations and dreams. This book, and my success thus far, are dedicated to you.

Intersight 18 seeks to capture the school's engagement with process and to reflect our teaching and research methodologies at a transformative time in our journey. Within our school we understand that student proposals and research do not exist in isolation, but rather share numerous connections and relationships. We work at different scalesď„„from the minute to the holistic, from studio to the community. We explore a wide variety of themes reflecting the range of ideas and curiosities of society at large. Ultimately, through the built-environment, we strive to leave the world a better place than we found it. This publication aims to be a reflection of our approach.

I am proud to present the 2015 student work of the University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning.

Brian J. Fiscus Fred Wallace Brunkow Fellow, 2015-2016

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Tanya Afroz, George Behn, Orghya

Daniel Vrana

Bhattacharjee, Niloofar Ghobadi, Taras

Omar Khan + Nicholas Bruscia | Thesis

Kes, Andrew Kim, Cortland Knopp, Kenzie McNamara, Kyle McMindes, Mathew Meyers, Timothy Rhul Fall 2015 | Chris Romano | ARC 609

Labor investigates modules, materiality, and connections to create resilient wall structures, and particularly thresholds and enclosures. Labor takes as its setting economically disadvantaged regions that suffer from seismic activity.

The work began individually, with students looking at historical precedents of walls and modular systems in order to understand boundary conditions around the world. Students then developed and aggregated a series of formworks to explore production techniques and issues of connections and joint conditions. These formworks consisted of wood, concrete, and even fabric molds, which facilitated the exploration of material properties and massing opportunities.

Following the completion of these individual studies, groups formed on the basis of correlations of massing, material, and structural methods. Two wall typesď„„cavity and gravityď„„were produced. The final 1:1 scale assemblages, composed of over 100 units each, were tested for stability and connection possibilities. Labor intends to create a framework that each region can employ to create design assemblages that can be constructed and maintained by the public.

Auxetic geometry, which can be defined as geometry which expands in a direction perpendicular to a tensile force and contracts in a direction perpendicular to a compressive force, has found application at multiple scales within biology, textiles, aerospace, and the military. However, the kinetic nature of auxetics requires internal movement of the geometry when subjected to external forces. This movement often results in complex joints, making them difficult to fabricate and deploy at a larger, architectural scale. A conceit of this thesis is that geometric characteristics associated with auxetics make them ideal candidates for architectural application, such as their ability to adapt to synclastic (double) curvature and their ability to deform locally due to a stimulus.

Out of Plane aims to investigate digital and physical simulations of architectural applications in order to understand potential fabrication methods as well as design strategies for auxetic systems.

Starting with initial questions about the portrayal of auxetic patterning and the implication of the uniformly patterned systems that are typically represented, the potential of three dimensional auxetic origami system was researched. If the kinetic nature of auxetic geometries was to be exploited in conjunction with their innate ability to respond to local stimuli, it could be hypothesized that an initially uniform pattern could apply to countless different exterior and interior conditions.

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Francis Parson + Michael Paraszczak

Kimberly Sass

Spring 2015 | Dennis Maher | ARC 102

Georg Rafailidis + Stephanie Davidson | Thesis

The potency of the cut and the mystery that it both hides and reveals is exemplified by an imaginary

This study calls attention to differences in the perception of space through the means of anamorphosis and painting

animal known as the amphisbaena.

The amphisbaena is a serpent that possesses two headsď„„one on each end. Its name is derived from the Greek, meaning "to go both ways." According to Greek mythology, the serpent was born when Perseus, having severed the head of Medusa, flew with his trophy above the desert and drops of blood fell to the ground below. The amphisbaena is said to have peculiar regenerative powers, such as the capacity to weld itself back together when cut in two. In addition, the serpent has extraordinary locomotive properties; it can move in both directions, and might even turn its body into a hoop-like wheel and roll itself along. The amphisbaena is referred to in a wide variety of literature, 66. Rhino Projection in whichfigure its purported powers are often intensified. For example, in "There Are More Things" by Jorge Luis Borges, the amphisbaena becomes a symbol for a house's disturbing interior, a place where the furnishings, albeit familiar, do not in any way conform to bodies as we know them and become representations of a mysterious, unknown dimension.

Here Amphisbaena becomes housing for two users, either a butcher or a copy-editor, with a respective focus on a kitchen or a library space, which utilize the geometries and actions developed through previous studies.

figure 65. Rhino Projection Process, Kimberly Sass, 2015

figure 68. Rhino Projection Process, Kimberly Sass, 2015

spatially. Perspectival distortion is Final Documentation also part of this study, as it plays

a role in the perception of space.

The resulting painting is immersive, distorted, Discrepancy a personal quest animated, unstable due to the is treatment of the line, to and there is a duality achieved in painting and a duplicate be able to experience access the on top of the existing. Detail photographs show spaces that constructed in my duplicate details of dents in are the homosote boards, paintings three painted screws,two-dimensional and other elements.

The in space appears to be unstable overall,What as theare painted space dimensions. the architectural creates a discrepancy of reality.

implications of a space being presented

Comments haveas been madediscrepancies about the dizzying having in effect proportion, of pinning up on these homosote boards for a critique, scale, planar slope, and location? as the room is used for final reviews. Deciphering the The resulting painting is immersive, edge of the homosote board in the painted space, versus reality captures theanimated. unstable nature of the due distorted, It is unstable project.

to the treatment of the line, and there

a duality achieved painting As elements areispainted in the freehandinstyle of the a Corner Drawingsduplicate II, elements appear to the playfully danceexisting on top of already and appear animated. The wonky line contributes to space. The space thus appears to this effect.

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be unstable overall, as the painted

Canvas is painted using the same 2D template process, space creates a discrepancy between and hung Process, over the blinds in theSass, window frames to figure 66. Rhino Projection Kimberly 2015 realities.

The architectural relevance create a seamless and continuous painted wall. The blinds are painted liesoninthe thecanvas. freehand line type chosen

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for the preliminary drawings, which mimic construction documents in this methodology. The gap created from translating two-dimensionally drawn information to three-dimensions is embraced in this project. The twodimensionally drawn information is not drawn as an orthographic projection to mimic the space, but rather is drawn in a freehand perspective type in order to be more true to perception and experience.

Since no single person perceives space in the same way, Discrepancy would never be the exact same work if another person were the observer/drawer/ painter.

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Michelle Fornabai's practice, ambo. infra design, was established in 2001.

Fornabai is a conceptual artist, trained as an architect, who uses architecture as a mediumexploring "malpractices," translated literally from the German Kunstfehler as "art mistakes," in conjunction with architectural "standards of practice," de lege artis in Latin, "according to the rules of the art."

Luis Surez-Mansilla, together with Asier Santas Torres, founded Surez Santas Arquitectos in Bilboa, Spain in 2004. The practice focuses on architecture, urban design, research, and architectural theory.

Its work embraces projects of a broad range of scales and typologies for public institutions and private clients. Explorations of space, light, fenestration, and flexibility are applied to multiple typologies and programmatic occupations.

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architectural design. It departs from the assumption that normative 1' - 8 1/4" 1' - 4" 1' - 4" economic-based methods of material 2' - 7 1/16" 6' - 1 3/8" - 8 7/16" of valuation necessitate the 8'creation unsalvageable waste, and as a result Long Side Framing Elevation 4 3/8" = 1'-0" the work concerns itself primarily with re-conceptualizing notions of value beyond that of2' -monetized utility.6' Given 4 3/4" - 1 7/16" the precondition of working outside the realm 1' - 4" of 1' -economic 4" 1' - 4" 1'value, - 4" 1' -the 4"0' - 10 1/2" architectural object to be studied was Rafter Wall Elevation 6 3/8" chosen = 1'-0" based on its advanced state of deterioration, mundane material makeup, and commonly occurring type.

To this end, a defunct backyard shed from the suburban Buffalo, New York area was selected for consideration.

Though exploratory in nature, the design processes generating the predominance 6' - 1 7/16" of the work were informed throughout Level 2 2 by scholarly research that falls primarily 3/8" = 1'-0" into the general categories of typology and sacred architecture. The work concludes with observations from the exploratory work regarding the potential 8' - 8 7/16" to create non-economic ideas of value 1' - 0 7/8"of 1'renewal - 4" 1' - 4" such 0' - 9" 1' - 6 3/4" 1' - 6 3/4" through rituals as 3' - 0" architectural reconfiguration.

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The results of these design experiments 1' - 8 1/4" 1' - 4" 2' - 7 1/16" 6' - 1 3/8" were then assembled into a large 8' - 8 7/16" model including all the memory-events Long Side Framing Elevation 4 from the collective of the individual 3/8" = 1'-0" participants. Afterwards, each design negotiated with its neighbors regarding 2' - 4 3/4" 6' - 1 7/16" structure, materials, and space, and out of this process was constructed a "Negotiated House." Negotiated House is thus a museum of domestic events and memories designed to introduce 3d NAAB 7 atypical design practices, spaces, and material/structural conditions to help students inventively resolve issues of memory and design adjacencies.

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Cut Edge to Fit Headers an event that had happened in their houses when were younger, and 1 Long Sidethey Framing Elevation - Callout 5 3/4" = 1'-0" they transformed each event-space using design strategies borrowed from Bernard Tschumi (Manhattan Transcripts), Peter Eisenman (Five Architects) and Lars Lerup (Planned Assaults).

MICHELLE FORNABAI | LUIS SUREZ-MANSILLA

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REDESIGNING AFFORDABLE HOUSING

ALEX KRIEGER Public Lecture: "Center City Health in the

DESIGN FOR COLLABORATION IN HEATLHCARE

Ghalia Ajouz

Early 21st Century"

Elyse Skerker

Fall 2015 | Edward Steinfeld | ARC 605

April 1, 2015

Edward Steinfeld + Sue Weidemann | Thesis

Redesigning Affordable Housing focuses on the role of architects in

The need for interdisciplinary teamwork in a hospital setting is increasing as

the affordable housing development process. The vehicle for the study was participation in Habitat for Humanity's (HfH) program in the city of Buffalo. Redesigning Affordable Housing partnered with HfH Buffalo to produce a design for the renovation of an existing single-family home on Buffalo's West Side. Topics that were addressed in the scheme included the shortage of affordable housing in one of the wealthiest countries on earth and its causes, opportunities for the architecture profession to contribute value in the process of developing housing with volunteer workers, and design strategies for affordable, accessible, healthy and sustainable houses.

a result of many factors: a growing aging population with large numbers of patients with more complex needs associated with chronic illness, increasing specialization in health professions and the resulting fragmentation of disciplinary knowledge, and the increasing complexity of skills and knowledge required to provide comprehensive care to patients. As a result, collaborative approaches to medicine are breaking down barriers The modified spatial syntax analysis yielded a numerical ranking which addressed the difficulty of to communications between medical traversing through the space from one location to another. The results from the point system in its specialties and becoming the norm. The totality is included in Appendix E. The results produced quantitative knowledge about spatial hierarchy Joint Commission reports that almost in relationship to the hub, the Breast Clinic. . However, the true meaning of the spatial syntax comes 70% of patient-adverse events cite the from considering the combination of the spatial syntax results and the sociometric analysis. lack of collaboration and communication between healthcare providers as a main The numerical score from the syntax analysis was graphed along with the average frequency score of cause of medical error. the interaction between participants and other staff that make up the “Breast Clinic.” While the “Breast

The first design challenge was to design an easily executable renovation that meets all minimum standards of the Residential Building Code of New York. This design was then critically examined for opportunities for improvement. These could include cost reduction, accessibility, sustainability, user experience, fit with context, and other issues. Additionally, the scheme was based on precedent studies and qualitative and/or quantitative research to support design decisions.

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Alex Krieger, FAIA, has combined a career of teaching and practice.

He has dedicated himself in both to understanding how to improve the quality of place and life in our major urban areas. In addition to design studios and seminar courses, he also teaches courses on the evolution of American cities. Professor Krieger's practice examines the integration of healthcare programs and facilities within our urban systems, and how architecture can improve the care that the community receives.

In 2012, Professor Krieger was appointed by President Barack Obama to the United States Commission of Fine Arts. He has also served in several university-wide roles including as senior planning advisor for Harvard's campus expansion into Allston, and on the recently established design review committees for both the Allston and Cambridge campuses.

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Clinic” is a place and not a department, the researcher translated it into a department by examining the The thesis utilized a case study scores of Medical Oncology and Surgical Oncology, both who sit in the Breast Clinic some of the week. approach to examine collaboration The result of this graphical interpretation is shown below: at the breast cancer treatment at Roswell Park Cancer Institute located 69 in Buffalo. By collecting data through 69

focused qualitative interviews, a written questionnaire, and a modified spatial syntax analysis, each case study provided a complementary perspective on how to design for collaboration in healthcare. The combination of the three methods produced information that allowed insights into how the environment could be improved to support the breast cancer patient team in a collaborative approach to care.

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BUILDING / BODY / WELLNESS

VIBRANT, SAFE, AND HEALTHY?

Joanne Tseng

Jennifer Whittaker

Fall 2015 | Miguel Guitart | ARC 301

Spring 2015 | Urban Planning Master's Project

Situated at the intersection of Main and Summer streets at the heart of the Buffalo Medical Corridor, the Building,

Urban planning has its roots planted firmly in the field of public health.

Rising together as fields dedicated to decreasing infectious disease and promoting healthy communities through urban reform, the disciplines diverged in the twentieth century as planners shifted their focus to land use, economic development, and transportation issues.

The decisions made by planners, however, have impacted urban design, environmental exposures, food access, and public safety in ways that are directly connected to some of the most deadly chronic diseases of this century, such as heart disease, obesity, and diabetes. In Amherst, that translates to 61,183 people who have chronic health conditions, with 30,591 people having two or more chronic health conditions. Modifying land use, the built environment, and development patterns can prevent and mitigate many of these chronic diseases that lead to a poorer quality of life for Amherst residents.

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Body, Wellness Center examines the reactivation of pedestrian life in the city and how integrated systems and program can impact the culture of a healthy life. Countering the depletion of urban culture, the Wellness Center experiments with the architectural impact of both the street and the city to revitalize public activity and pedestrian life. Specifically, the project examines how the Wellness Center can be configured to promote/present healthy living as a cultural destination.

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Site model view down Main Street Around the site the faade, structure, and system are integrated with the overall building design to support the health program. Using these principles, the Wellness Center explores healthy relationships between physical and mental wellness components and compares these to the integration and relationships of faade, form and program. Ultimately, the Wellness Center is conceived of not as a type of building, but rather as a culture of healthy life. It represents an experimental framework that can instigate public action, motivating designers, public figures, and policymakers to do more to promote public health than would normally be expected.

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The town of Amherst frequently touts its positive ranking as one of the safest communities in the country. Its small town feel, coupled with strong educational and social institutions as well as its high quality of life are highly valued by its residents.

A well-trained police force keeps citizens safe from harm through proactive and dedicated officers. Yet, the built environment in Amherst harms the health of the 120,000+ residents through its car-dependent landscape and sprawling residential communities. Preventable chronic diseases, such as diabetes, obesity, and heart disease are connected to the planning of communities that isolates residents from opportunities for physical activity and healthy food options, and places them at risk for negative environmental exposures. In America, half of all adults have one or more chronic health conditions and one in four have two or more chronic health conditions. When this statistic is applied to Amherst, over 60,000 adults have chronic health conditions that could be decreased through planning a built environment that promotes physical, mental,8 and social health and well being.

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Methodical analysis examines presence of goals, policies, implementation factors and locations of health language in Amherst Plan (see Figures 3-5).

Results of Amherst analysis are compared to results of national survey of comprehensive plans and public health.

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VIVARIUM Rachel Chen + Sayem Shah Fall 2015 | Annette LeCuyer | ARC 403

The driving force of cities arises from collective energy. Today that energy might be economic, political and environmental, with urban density increasingly being seen in terms of ecological sustainability. Because of the city's collective character, a central challenge of urban housing concerns the balance between public and private realms. The urban dwelling is a threshold between self and society, local and global, and nature and culture.

This project uses the vehicle of the vivarium, which is an enclosed space designed for isolated ecological or environmental generation, to imagine a housing complex for local health professionals on the Buffalo Medical campus. In providing housing for 100 medical students, Vivarium focuses on the sequence from public to private space, which creates spatial conditions that acknowledge and attempt to alleviate the enormous physical and mental pressures faced by these students. A public-level open-air market provides accessibility to amenities throughout the day and at times that are not always covered by local establishments. The housing units themselves are designed as dormitory living spaces with two-person study bedrooms that are linked through a series of walkways that can be seen through large central atriums.

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The 2015 Clarkson Chair in Architecture, Frank Barkow is a founding partner of the American/ German architectural practice, Barkow Leibinger. The practice focuses on "how advances in technology and engineering can be turned into architectural ends." A widely recognized leader in digital and analogue fabrication techniques, Barkow Leibinger's discursive research-based approach allows their work to respond to advancing knowledge and technology.

This know-how expands to include new materials and their applications in driving the practice forward as a continuously evolving activity. This focus revolves around a commitment to academic teaching, research and the practice itselfď„„each are autonomous work-areas, which simultaneously inform each other beneficially. This is an approach that distinguishes each project as distinct in relationship to client /architect dialogue, location, aesthetics, and purpose.

As an extension of the city, Overlapping Microcare attracts a diverse population into a single building that serves as a community gathering area with entertainment and social functions as well as a rehabilitation center to allow for the reintegration of recovering patients back into their community.

Through the dissolution of boundaries, the housing proposal becomes a hinge point to the East Side community of Buffalo as it transforms an underutilized parking lot into a park that is integrated into a large housing complex.

Overlapping Microcare plays a vital role in the mental and physical well-being of residents of the building as well as serving the community at large. Using therapeutic methods such as walking, aquatic, and music therapy, all of which were identified as necessities by the local community, Overlapping Microcare presents itself as an active system to engage and stimulate the public.

The residential units also support the larger conceptual framework of the proposal with large shared balconies to encourage walking and communication among the residents. Seen as shortterm housing as residents undergo rehabilitation, the units reflect this quality by providing flexible and large open spaces as well as providing comfort and tranquility through light surfaces and textures, which make physical and mental rehabilitation a pleasurable experience.

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proposes a new athletic arena at the site of the former War Memorial Stadium located in the East Side of Buffalo. The arena was chosen for both its technical and political challenges.

PRECEDENT STUDIES The arena building type is an ideal platform to practice parametric modeling and simulation in terms of both the design of the exterior enclosure and the optimization of programmatic requirements. More specifically, the project used physics-based formfinding to experiment with structurally expressive long-span roof canopies, while incorporating other algorithmic tools to analyze interior conditions such as seating arrangements, sight lines, and circulation. On-screen experiments of tensile systems were studied in parallel with large-scale working models. Tensioned membranes are of particular interest to the studio due to their flexible design aesthetics, potential for lightweight long spans, climatic durability, and the local Buffalo expertise of Birdair, the leading specialty contractor for custom tensile membrane structures used throughout the world.

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institutions are often supported by the local Kunstverein, or art association.

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Designing Kunsthalle explores spatial qualities and organizational strategies, while addressing issues of flexibility and specificity. Accommodating the various scales and modes of contemporary art has the potential to provoke novel responses in built form and radically challenge the relationship between the viewer and the objects on display. Kunsthalle balances the client's requirements with the needs of the public to discover a generosity in massing and interior gallery program that runs deeper than just the provision of public space. Additional layers of art support services and maintenance are integrated to study the functionality of the art museum and to extend the richness of the proposal.

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German-American architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, along with Le Corbusier and Walter Gropius, is regarded as a pioneer of Modernist architecture. In "The Visuality of Space and the Space of Vision," Martino Stierli, chief curator of architecture and design at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, explores a special area of Mies van der Rohe's visual imagery: the photomontage.

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Architects in America - Eliel and Eero

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Saarinen and Alvar Aalto"

Learning Commons is situated in the forecourt of the existing Buffalo and Erie County Public Library, which is considered an extension of the library's learning space. Multiple precedent analyses revealed that library buildings often have a significant portion of space devoted to enclosed or open office space, conference rooms, archival storage, servers, and a host of other activities that are an essential part of a working educational space. Learning Commons explores these programmatic requirements and blends them together to provide public access to information.

This program totals approximately 4,000 square meters as well as a gallery of approximately 4,500 square meters that can be accessed both from the Learning Commons and directly from the public right of way. The basis upon which the various program elements are arranged highlight three key issues: the conceptual implementation in the final program; the detailed plan layout that convincingly allocates both workstations and ancillary spaces; and the successful resolution of life safety and accessibility code issues. Transforming the library typology from classical norms into a contemporary integrated spatial organization invites and encourages interactions and communication to disseminate ideas and information between people of different ages and backgrounds.

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Juhani Pallasmaa is a Finnish architect, educator, author, and critic. He is a leading figure in contemporary architectural culture. He is a former director of the Museum of Finnish Architecture and the Dean of the Helsinki University of Technology. An honorary fellow of the American Institute of Architects, he has also served on the jury of the Pritzker Prize for Architecture.

He is the author of various influential books and essays, including The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses and Encounters: Architectural Essays.

Throughout Pallasmaa's career, he has been referred as a leader in Phenomenology, the philosophy of the human consciousness, in architecture and design. Studying Finnish architects such as Eliel and Eero Saarinen and Alvar Aalto, Pallasmaa explores their pinnacle works through the lens of emotions, sensory experiences, and consciousness. His writings and exhibitions critically engage current and past architectural spaces from these architects and architects they influenced.

Postmodernism reacted against the ubiquity and relentlessness of the International Style, returning to the language of architecture that had been developed for thousands of yearsď„„in short, an architecture of meaning.

While postmodernism may still be the broader period we continue to work in today, the manifestoes, language, and criticality of "high postmodernism" has since faded into history. Arguably FINAL MODELS AND DRAWINGS the most contentious period of the twentieth century for architects today, postmodernism had its roots in overturning the most contentious period of the twentieth century for the publicď„„modernism.

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Chiatte Della Biennale (Barges of the Biennale) consists of designed pavilions that house a retrospective exhibition on the work of one of ten postmodern architects and should also reflect the work of the architect. The pavilions are sited on barges, each 250' x 36'. The barges are connected to one another in series, situated alongside the exhibition gardens on the Canale di San Marco.

The ten pavilions were dedicated to the architects Ricardo Bofill, Peter Eisenman, Michael Graves, Hans Hollein, Philip Johnson, Leon Krier, Charles Moore, Aldo Rossi, James Stirling, and Robert Venturi.

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Hadas Steiner + Sean Burkholder | Thesis

Summer 2015 | Kenneth MacKay

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Ireland Study Abroad

Poverty, Politics, and Planning in a

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It investigates the designing memorial a asmemorial a repositorytoofsomething the values that has noofdefinitive resolution, anda a multitude of society expressed through designed object or space, analyzing the impact valid conflicting perspectives. En Memoriand evolution of the memorial since Abraham Lincoln's commemoration of the Gettysburg battlefield as the nation's first war memorial. Empirical and historical research create an objective process that determines the effectiveness of a memorial's design by comparing the subject it represents against the space and design decisions made. This process informed strategies on how to design a memorial to the War on Terror, a vague, endless campaign begun by the United States after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in 2001. These attacks on the United States have affected the country economically, politically, and socially, ushering in a new Age of Terror, where policy and military decisions are made in fear against an obscure, vague enemy. This thesis analyzes this present-day struggle in designing a memorial to something that has no definitive resolution, and a multitude of valid conflicting perspectives. En Memoriam attempts to understand a relevant complex socio-political issue while suggesting approaches by which to improve monument and memorial fabrication, planning and design.

Arlington V.A. The full thesis is available at the QR code and link below.

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Ireland's Marriage Equality Referendum, marking the first time a conservative, Catholic country has voted in favor of marriage equality, has changed the future of Ireland, making the nation an international symbol for change and tolerance. Celebrations in the streets of Dublin following the referendum's passage created significant memories for the people who experienced them and are important to share in the future.

Equality displays materials and artifacts relating to the Thirty-fourth Amendment (Marriage Equality) of the Irish Constitution and connects the National Museum of Ireland's exhibitions on the history of Ireland with contemporary events. This contemporary pavilion conveys the referendum's significant departure from the nation's conservative past and stands as a symbol for Ireland's future as it sits in contrast to the museum's historic Georgian architecture. The project uses a series of large rotating panels that allow curators and visitors to interact with and adapt the pavilion's openings with regard to entry, light, air, Ireland’s Marriage Equality and views. Like the referendum, the Referendum is the first time a country has voted in favor form and experience of the pavilion, of marriage equality. As LGBT which are determined bySketches the users, rights are in headlines across allow for change. From Ireland within the the world, this referendum, passed with a 71% approval museum visitors will be able toinlook a traditionally conservative country, has changed into the pavilion, thus connecting the the history and future of history within the museum andIreland; the and has become contemporary historical eventsanjustinternational symbol for change and acceptance. outside.

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Todd Swanstrom is the author of six books, including Place Matters: Metropolitics for the Twenty-First Century (co-authored with Peter Dreier and John Mollenkopf). Published in 2001, the book examines the relationship between suburban sprawl and the decline of central cities and inner-ring suburbs. Dr. Swanstrom also co-authored City Politics (with Dennis Judd), which is a comprehensive examination of urban politics.

The turmoil in Ferguson, Missouri, has been framed by the media almost exclusively in racial terms. In fact, the underlying cause of the injustices denounced by the protestors is a volatile mix of race and class inequalities, driven by metropolitan development patterns that are reinforced by local political institutions. In this public lecture, Dr. Swanstrom confronts the placebased inequalities behind these issues and the critical role planners have to play in finding solutions.

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Spring 2015 | Master's Degree Special Project

Amherst Diversity examines diversity in communities both large and small.

The project studies the town's political

The economic need for creativity has created a new class, the creative class. Studies shows that highly marketable graduates migrate out of the Buffalo region. The creative class seeks diverse communities and people-friendly environments.

However, with the need for economic development on the rise, and the need to attract the creative class UB School of Architecture Planning in order to make this happen, many and regions have Urban and Regional Planning started building communities to attract this class.

boundaries and compares them to census data from across the country.

Using this data, the project creates policy recommendations involving the built environment and urban planning strategies in order to bring inclusion Gay Index and diversity equity to the forefront.

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COSMOLOGY OF TIME Charles Schmidt Dennis Maher + Hadas Steiner | Thesis

This thesis was an exploration of narratives as design tools to represent time theory. Six (total) philosophical and scientific time theories were adapted into narratives to envision time as characters in space, with a focus on how time influenced their inhabitation and the development of their universe.

Narratives were represented in a large pantheon composed of separately constructed spatial drawings. These individual drawings were reconfigured and combined to show the interrelations of different characters after serving as analytical tools to objectively inform new drawings and narratives. The drawings introduced time as a spatial material, one that informed boundary and rules of inhabitation. The pantheon-like composition was an exploration of how time could influence the way characters inhabit and consider their place in the cosmos.

Pouring through narratives, lines and markings would appear in various ways around the working environment, forming drawings that began to move up the walls on their way to inhabit the ceiling. After the appearance of these artifacts in slow successions overhead, the spaces and their temporality required a strong attentiveness over the course of half a year. The swirling cosmos that was generated, taking form in a mural of interconnections, was the subject of an analysis and mythological narrative.

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ANG LI

Taewoo Kang

No Frills

2015-2016 Reyner Banham Fellow

Spring 2015 | Joyce Hwang | ARC 608

Obsolescence as a paradigm for comprehending and managing changeď„„based on principles of innovation, competition, measurable performance, supersession, and expendabilityď„„may be said to be the capitalist model of development par excellence: a ceaseless process of production, consumption, discarding, and reinvestment. In Reconsidering Obsolescence, the studio contended, on the one hand, with market forces or conditions that typically drive our understanding of economic value. On the other hand, the studio endeavored to locate threads that define a broader sense of cultural "value." In a society that associates "newness" with desirability, for example, how might we reconsider the material vestiges of our industrial past in social and even ecological terms? Ideas such as old versus new, monumentality versus spatiality, and aesthetics versus performance forefronted discussions in the studio. The studio was interested in the pursuit of architecture as a cultural, urban endeavor that is informed by environmental, social, material, economic, and spatial factors.

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Ang Li is an architect and writer whose work is centered around the re-appropriation of lost and found architectural artifacts. Her research in Buffalo focuses on the role of the industrial monument as a trope in architectural history and practice. Thirty years after the publication of Reyner Banham's A Concrete Atlantis, the project will revisit some of these former sites and structures.

No Frills is a site-specific installation that explores the relationship between vernacular craft and mass-production through the material agency of terra cotta. In collaboration with Buffalobased Boston Valley Terra Cotta, the project explores the cultural and historical connotations of terra cotta as an architectural material through new media and digital production. In a semiabandoned Chevrolet Factory by the Detroit-based architect Albert Kahn, a planned thirteen-foot column interrupts the existing grid of the assembly floor.

The installation doubles as a monument to local material histories, and a spatial intervention that mediates between the vast scale of heavy industrial production and the human scale of the architectural ornament.

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CHINA: XIXINAN VILLAGE

Jeffery Amplement, Nicholas Baston, William

Marius Laurinkus, Eliana Drier, Nashon Jagroo

STUART CANDY / LIAM YOUNG

Becker, Caryn Blair, Tanveer Dhillon, Aparna

Summer 2015 | Shannon Bassett |

Public Lecture: "Young Candy"

Gopal, Imran Gulzar, Zhuoxing Jiang,

China Study Abroad

September 30, 2015

Nathan Neuman, Jake Palant, Amirhossein Shahabnia ,Christopher Snyder, Hailey Stern, Xin Wang, Jennifer Whittaker Fall 2015 | Kerry Traynor | URP 581

In 1883 the New York Central Railroad constructed a sixteen-mile line that encircled the city, transporting people and goods around the city. Industry and working-class neighborhoods developed adjacent to the Belt-Line. By the end of World War I, with the rise of the motor car and improved streets and trolley cars, the Belt Line fell out of use as a vital means of transportation within the city. Nonetheless, the Belt-Line has not been completely abandoned and remains an active rail line.

Belt-Line embodies the story of the city: the once bustling industrial city that saw a decline in the mid-twentieth century and is now beginning to see a resurgence. It is the story of industry, neighborhoods, ethnic settlement, and transportation, among others. It is a cultural landscape that encircles the city, leaving voids where buildings once stood, and ruins where they stand abandoned. Within these voidsthe betweenand the buildings that remain is a geographical area associated with cultural and aesthetic values. Belt-Line addresses the problem of how to identify these areas and use them in a way that both protects and rehabilitates them.

Selecting the cultural spine of the Xixinan village as the proposal site, the studio examines a series of interventions in areas containing an ancient theater, ponds, and an orchard.

After examining the activities and cultural heritage of the village, it was clear that this spine, if stitched together, could become the center for the entire community and for visiting tourists. ​ The current situation in the Xixinan community is that the cultural nodes and ancestral homes are not being utilized, but are rather left abandoned and without any program. The rich heritage of the village can begin to bring energy back and offer the community places to gather and even give economic incentives for the locals to offer their goods to the visiting tourists.

Beginning from the theater where crowds can gather near a pond to enjoy a show and which serves as a place to meet, stitched circulation leads into a pond/park area, where multiple activities and programs bring the community together. The cultural spine will react to programmatic needs of the villagers by leaving space as a blank canvas to be filled, thus giving the villagers of Xixinan the platform to incorporate their historical heritage with current social needs and to prepare for the visiting tourists who are sure to follow.

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Stuart Candy is a producer, strategist, and an educator. He is best known for his influential work in experiential futures and design fiction, evoking worlds to come via tangible artifacts and immersive encounters.

Liam Young is an architect who operates in the spaces between design, fiction, and futures. He has conducted workshops on speculation, emerging technologies, and future forecasting for firms. He also runs the Unknown Fields Division, an award-winning nomadic workshop that travels on annual expeditions to the ends of the earth to investigate unreal and forgotten landscapes, alien terrains, and industrial ecologies. Workshop participants analyze a vital area of exploration in the built environment of tomorrow, often using methods of fiction to explore intersections of architecture, urbanism, and technology.

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GOOD GRIDS

Ryan Hughes + Farrah Matovu

Nicholas Traverse + Studio Model

Spring 2015 | Jin Young Song | ARC 608_3

Summer 2015 | Gregory Delaney

Ginny Gallersdorfer, Patrick Niedzwiecki +

Grand Tour: USA

Seoul is a metropolis of 10 million people and Yangpyeong is a suburb of Seoul with a population of only 100,000 people. It takes 30-40 minutes by subway from Yangpyeong to commute to the heart of Seoul. The geographic area of Yangpyeong is much larger than Seoul. Its low density, protected nature, and well-developed biking and hiking infrastructure have made this suburb a haven for metropolis workers. On the other hand, Yangpyeong also has many typical suburban problems. Even though housing prices are much lower than in Seoul, housing developments have few amenities and lack a residential culture.

The residential areas fail to utilize the railway and bike infrastructure, and sprawling commercial developments are not attracting enough customers. With those opportunities and challenges in mind, UB and MINIMAX Architects were tasked with providing an innovative framework to guide the development of Yangpyeong over the next ten years.

As a part of Yangpyeong: Compact Renaissance, the Yansgu site focuses on the intersection between landscape and built form. This is done through the revitalization of the existing environment as well as through the introduction of a minimally invasive mixed-use development and several attractions in the landscape.

In many ways, the City Club's 1913 competition was the last large-scale interrogation of the American grid, for most of the twentieth century was preoccupied with a shift away from the grid towards romantic town planning.

But more recently, with the emergence of New Urbanism, the grid has resurfaced as "new" urban form. New Urbanism's problem, however, lies in its overly formulaic approach, churning up the most generic ideas of grid and spitting out prescriptive, universal models through transect diagrams and form-based codesreturning American cities back to the ubiquity and banality that spawned the City Club's competition in the first place.

Good Grids reinvestigates gridded urban formone that's driven not only by efficiency and economy, but also by artistic principles and spatial experience as a return to the generation of urban ideas over formulas. Good Grids draw on experiences and conversations held in the thirty-seven American cities and nineteen states visited as part of a fiveweek grand tour that encountered many grids, demanding a more thorough investigation of the nuances of this organizational device. While the context of the competition is Chicago, the real context is urban America, offering new and reinvigorated ideas for the expansion and infill of our cities in the continued evolution of the most prolific of urban formsthe grid.

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SHELTON SQUARE

Public Lecture: "Informal Settlement

Adam Pisarkewicz, Trevor Maciejewski,

Upgrading in Global Mega-Cities: the Human

Will Becker, Cal Schilling

Rights-Property Rights Dilemma"

Fall 2015 | Hiro Hata | URP 581_1

March 11, 2015

Professor Jacobs is a member of the faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where he holds a joint appointment as professor in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning and the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies.

Professor Jacobs's research and teaching program focuses on public policy, theory and philosophy for land use, and environmental management.

Since the early 1990s he has focused his domestic research on the rise and impact of the private property rights (the so-called "wise use") movement, and increasing social conflict over regulatory takings. Internationally, he has addressed issues related to the definition of private property rights, devolution/decentralization of administrative authority for land use planning and policy, and peri-urban land management (the containment of urban sprawl) by national ministries and new local governments in eastern Europe and Africa. His most recent work focuses on the transformation of private property as a social and legal institution in western Europe.

The City of Buffalo is experiencing a resurgence. After years of sustained economic downturn, seen across similarly situated rust-belt cities, the city and region have begun to recover and grow. This regrowth demands the city address the public interventions of the past that combined to create the car-centric, disjointed urban fabric that characterizes the now inaccessible and undesirable downtown core.

Economic and public investment in the area creates a previously denied opportunity to improve a public realm that is historically sensitive and culturally relevant for the future of Buffalo.

The project site has been identified in the city's master plan, The Queen City Hub, as a strategic area of targeted investment. Shelton Square was chosen to give the area a sense of identity and branding. The Queen City Hub recommends that the area become a downtown mixed-use educational campus; a critical mass of people will bring new energy to the area, catalyzing a more vibrant 24/7 space. Efforts at revitalization need to be concerned with what makes a city a great place to live.

Great urban spaces are an investment.

Shelton Square explores the driving principles behind Joseph Ellicott's design, builds on successful models in modern cities, and proposes the transformation of Shelton Square into an urbane, walkable, livable, healthy, beautiful, coherent and legible civic space.

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HARLEM - MAIN DISTRICT

KENNETH GOULD

Bruno Avila Eca De, Mark Coleman, Eric

Thanumalayan Vivek

Public Lecture: "Green Gentrification and

Hammer, Zhiqiu Jiang, Alexandra Judelsohn,

Spring 2015 | Master's Degree Special Project

Environmental Injustice: Socio-Ecological Changes in the Neighborhoods of Brooklyn"

Tara Kamal Ahmadi, Michael Longley, Joseph McGrath, April McLean-McCory, Mara Pusateri, David Warner Fall 2015 | Bumjoon Kang | URP 581_2

The Town of Tonawanda's Bicycle Master Plan consists of three major sections. A background section examines existing conditions within the town as well as the 5 E's model from the League of American Bicyclists (LAB), which is an approach to bicycle planning that has served as a guide for other municipalities. The 5 E's to the Town of Tonawanda's Bicycle Master Plan are encouragement, evaluation and planning, education, enforcement, and equity.

The Bicycle Master Plan investigates further questions regarding the recreational habits of residents, lapses in infrastructure within the existing bicycle network, as well as other connectivity issues.

Studies also analyzed trends of bicycle crash reports to assess issues of safety.

Clear guidelines for prioritizing bicycling infrastructures were proposed for the town.

Harlem - Main District lies at one of the most critical locations in the town of Amherst. The location can be considered the southern entrance to the town of Amherst and the main access point from the city of Buffalo.

The importance of the location dates back in history, and the presence of anchor institutions creates a strong and sustainable force that could drive future developments in the area. The area of study has already been proposed

by Amherst's Planning Board as a Midblock Crosswalks future mixed-use development. Snyder Square is a key player in the economic To slow down the traffic and also have a seamless connection between the commercial areas this design strategy can be Harlem Main Intersection Enhancement & Branding adopted .The insertion of mixed-use will also increase pedestrian activity, meaning there would be a higher level of danger drive of the area as it promotes the for pedestrians crossing the street. This can be avoided by have a midblock crosswalk in the mixed-use district. This would The intersection Harlem Main have a good urban form, this form pedestrians is howevertodisrupted by the of a gas also enable have a better viewpresence of the oncoming traffic thus making the area a safe zone. A typical midblock town's vision andofgoals for and its future.

9 station facing the main intersection does not reciprocate thecrosswalk patter of the center give of that of a is shown belowand (Figure 24Aa&false 24B).image The implementation of the Green Code disrupted community. The addition of design elements to the corner lot to disrupt the imbalance in form could help in Figure 26: Main & Harlem Master Plan transition. of position of the site byseamless Buffalo visual and the variousBranding strategicthe neighborhood at this location would help establish a sense Source: Adapted from GIS and Erie County GIS and add the urban form. The proposed street diet program would further help enhance the intersection and control traffic plans created by One Region Forward better. (Figure 23A, 23B & 23C). has induced the town of Amherst to introduce a similar form-based code 22 | P a g e in the near future to unify the region's development for holistic growth.

Harlem - Main District implementation is set to take place over a ten-year period with gradual increments in public infrastructure and infill. The first Figure 23A: Harlem Main Intersection before Intervention phase for developing the mixed-use commercial corridor would be a twoyear venture to adopt a street design program. This would create a strong and multimodal transportation linkage between Main Street and other parts of the town of Amherst as well as with the city of Buffalo.

Urban Infill Characteristics and Future Infill Identification Amherst Building Code requires developments to have large setbacks and minimum number of parking within the lots, this has promoted the provision of large parking lots facing the streets and is a key factor for the disjointed streetscape prevalent in the project area. When compared to other commercial corridors within the region with zero parking requirement on lots Figure 23B: Harlem Mainparcel Intersection after Corner Enhancement Street new rules and program structure for future development and with optimal usage; there arises a need to &establish Figure 24A: Neighborhood Corridor Figure 24B: Midblock Crossing Introduction to Corridor pattern in the area.

Promoting the use of public transit or car share could help promote zero parking requirement law.

Source: NACTO Urban Street designDiet Guide Source: NACTO Urban Street design Guide http://nacto.org/usdg/intersection-design-elements/crosswalks-andhttp://nacto.org/usdg/intersection-design-elements/crosswalks-andMaximizing the parcel for infill also would mean that the Town of Amherst would benefit from higher tax income from the crossings/midblock-crosswalks crossings/midblock-crosswalks developments. In order to stitch the disjointed streetscape four site have been studied fir future infill. Currently these lots are vacant or used as surface parking (Figure 13).

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Dr. Gould is a professor of sociology and director of the Urban Sustainability Program at Brooklyn College. He is also the author of several books that focus on the impacts of environmental studies, including Twenty Lessons in Environmental Sociology (2015), Environment and Society (1999), and Local Environmental Struggles (1996). Dr. Gould emphasizes urban sustainability initiatives and the consequences that going green has for neighborhoods. Urban greening initiatives tend to have negatively redistributed impacts, displacing economically disadvantaged neighborhood residents and attracting wealthier residents. The consequences of these green movements are unintended. Nonetheless, policy choices can address them and early public policy interventions aimed at neighborhood stabilization can help create more just outcomes.

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DAVID KAMP

Steven Buchanan

March 25, 2015

Spring 2015 | Sean Burkholder | ARC 606_3

Huntley: Great Lakes Coast aims to foster a series of basin-centric design methodologies that showcase a clear understanding of the relationship between site-scale interventions and their larger impacts and implications both socially and ecologically. The scale of Huntley proposals fluctuate but primarily address what might be considered a "landscape" scale.

Architecture within this framework is considered as a participatory element within a larger system. Each project addresses the shoreline of Lake Erie in some way, thus allowing for explorations in access and water-based habitat.

Because landscape is somewhat of a novel topic, there was a series of opportunities to develop knowledge and skills that are essential for managing landscape scale projects, in addition to the accumulation of precedent projects and research that was used to help inform design decisions. Huntley reconsidered the Huntley Power plant in Tonawanda, New York. This plant, like so many others in the region, is facing possible closure due to decreased profitability. What will become of the facility, the site, the workers and the town of Tonawanda as a whole was explored.

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Public Lecture: "Nature and Human Nature"

Sky Stage Fall 2015 | Joyce Hwang | ARC 501

Sky C. Stage Arc 501, fall 2015 Professor Joyce Hwang

German biologist Jakob von Uexkll theorized the term Umwelt (meaning: "surroundings" or "environment") to describe the "biological foundations that lie at the very epicenter of the study of both communication and signification in the human [and non-human] animal."

Section Four | Phase 3B: Artist’s Colony Project Development

Umwelt translates this concept into David Kamp is the founding principal a small research observatory for PHASE 3 of the New York-based practice an individual to view/interact with a coral shaped space with anemone wall Dirtworks Landscape Architecture.

It particular non-human species. This the anemone wall within the coral shaped interior space moves like sea was established to explore the role of isgrasshopper. then transformed into an artists' anemone, as illustrated with 1. Apply points to surface 2. Apply circles tocolony points nature in the designed environment at Silo City, Buffalo for a new 3. Apply move to circle 4. Loft the circles and to promote health and well-being. urban 5. Extrude the lofts on the Z axis residency program for visiting 6. Sway the lofted curves with number sliders on the Y and X axis’ Its current work includes healthcare, artists. The program is particularly academic, cultural, and civic projects. interested in attracting artists whose 1 Many aspects come into play when 2 considering the general health of the community. The designed environment can help promote certain lifestyles, 5 6 especially healthy ones. Mr. Kamp developed prototypical gardens that

served a range of individuals with special needs while he was an artist-in-10 9 residence at the MacDowell Colony. The majority of Mr. Kamp's research and works revolves around medical ethics and advancing the effectiveness 13 of nature and gardens to influence health care.

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8 The post-industrial context of Silo City provides a fertile context within which to conduct relevant research toward such projects. Silo 12 City is simultaneously thriving with new forms of life, including various plant species and urban animals. The site is, therefore, a context for learning and inspiration; at the same 15 time, it can be seen as a territory for experimentation. Umwelt is interested in collaborating with a variety of types of visual artists, including painters, sculptors, photographers, sound artists, and filmmakers, to develop a new interpretation of a live/work environment.

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Fall 2015 | Virginia Melnyk | ARC 201

Fall 2015 | Georg Rafailidis | ARC 607_2

The studio explored the close integration of architectural matter, form, context and use. Materials were employed to create both tectonic and conceptual logics. Morphology and Context investigated one of at least six possible building systems with an eye to understanding how they can be shaped into complex spatial organizations.

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Drawing on the knowledge gleaned from these scaled experiments, the studio then attempted to solve a specific building function (an art museum) on the site of Squaw Island in Buffalo, New York. Taking the undulating and industrial site as a design catalyst, Morphology and Context integrates the ground plane with mechanical and spatial systems. Ultimately, the art museum reexamines the cultural institution through the lens of contextual and structural relationships to existing conditions, environmental concerns, views, vehicular traffic, and pedestrian access.

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Typically used for being invisible and flat, glass is known to either disappear through transparency or by reflection.

It is not usually considered suitable as a structural element and is regarded as an energetic "problem" due to low insulation values. Glass examined the rich history of glass fabrication and glass architectural components.

Additionally, contemporary material developments suggested alternative readings of glass as a material with a much more malleable and variable materiality than generally thought. Through material research in architecture as an integrated endeavor that drew on scientific, tectonic and cultural readings, students expressed theoretical and spatial concepts through physical artifacts. Insights were triggered by the material specificity and fabrication techniques of glass. Glass emphasized an integrative and inclusive approach against the current backdrop of ever increasing specialization and compartmentalization of architectural discourse. Ultimately, the proposals studied the potential yield of a new spatial experience / form of inhabitation / relationship with a user in relationship to glass material systems.

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I chose to focus on the concept of landscapes formed through double curved slopes. Additionally, I selected wood as my new material choice in order to emphasize the connection with landscape and the natural world.

To accommodate and generate the desired double curved surfaces, I began working with CNC milling.

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Bethune Lecture: "Medium with a Message"

Stephanie Acquario, Idris Adesina, Hashim

April 22, 2015

Ajlouni, Ghalia Ajouz, Ruby Anderson, Juliana Ribeiro Arruda Q Andrade, Younes Bachar, Kristin Beaudoin, George Behm, Stephanie Beuther, Pooja Bhatt, Stephen Buchanan, Mark Buenafe, Dylan Burns, Samson Cameron, Nicole Cappa, Daniel Chan, Yan Cham, Ivan Chao, Ha Ram Chung, Caio Da Sliva, Max Dembling, Joshua Dillin, Alexandre do Amaral, Brett Doster, Kara Dunovant, Ryan Dussault, Abdul Engin, Ian Farneth, Izabella Tavares Fernandes, Dan Fiore,

Louisa Hutton is a founding partner of Sauerbruch Hutton, an international agency for architecture, urbanism, and design. In "Medium with a Message," she examines the building facade as an embodiment of culture and collective identity in the digital age.

John Forrestel, Peter Foti, Germania Garzon, Devir Gesell, Phil Gusmano, Jessica Lynn

Every two years, the U.S. Department of Energy invites collegiate teams to submit design proposals and be selected as one of the twenty teams to design and build an energy-efficient house completely powered by the sun.

The winning team produces a house that is affordable, beautiful, and livable; maintains comfortable indoor conditions; supplies enough energy to complete daily tasks such as cooking, commuting, and entertaining; provides sufficient hot water; and produces at least as much energy as it consumes.

Hall, Daryl Harper, Jenna Harsanyi, Syed Ali Hasan, Nate Heckman, Garrett Herbst, Xinghua Hong, Tim Huang, Taras Kes, Leah Kiblin, Lorrin Kline, Cortland Knopp, Matthew Kreidler, Andrew Koudlai, Cole Levine, Hong Woon Lim, Ryan Lim, Ajinkya Lonikar,

In addition, Hutton gained international renown for her early engagement with sustainability in architecture and urbanism. Sauerbruch-Hutton is best known for the Brandhorst Museum in Munich, the Federal Environmental Agency in Dessau, and the GSW

Trevor Maclin, Mahan Mehrvarz, Xin Meng,

Headquarters in Berlin, all of which represent exemplary case studies of sustainable design for working environments

Rigaglia, Andy Rouse, Aaron Salva, Allison

Xi Mo, Vtor Jos Jernimo de Moraes, John Morano, Rania Moussa, Amanda Mumford, Matthew Myers, Iyamu (Kelly) Osahoniy, Chris Osterhoudt, Kaitlyn O'Connell, Mrunmayee Pathak, Zhi Ting Phua, Thomas Prato, Jerry Qu, Rolando Rabut, Kedar Ratnakar, Michael Sansano, Katherine Scott, Muhammad Mohd Shamsor, Eunjin Shin, Nathan St John, Allie Strycharz, Joseph Szabo, Phua Zhi Ting, Luan Torres, Joe Tuberdyck, Michael Tuzzo, Peter Urban, Aravindhan Vadivel, Trenton Van Epps, Duane Warren, Emily Warren, Stephen Weinheimer, Susan Weng, John Wightman, Robert Wysocki, Carissa Zamerski Spring | Summer | Fall 2015 Martha Bohm, Stephanie Cramer, Matt Hume, Omar Khan, Deb Koladczak, Kenneth Mackay, Nick Rajkovich, Bradley Wales

The GRoW Home was designed and built with both conceptual ideas and guiding constraints. The team studied precedents by Reyner Banham, Lacaton and Vassal, and Philippe Rahm to ground the ideas of the project as well as precedents in Buffalo that contributed to understanding the city's own rich history in experimentation. Community gardens, parks, and urban gardening are prominent in Buffalo. As a result, the GRoW Home is built for a "culturally creative" couple and promotes a new sustainable lifestyle. Compositionally, the house is made of four elements: the deck, canopy, GRoWlarium (part greenhouse, part solarium), and modules. The interiors are organized with flexible intermediate spaces and programmed ends, in keeping with the four principles of the house.

The team argued that four principles are essential to living a sustainable lifestyle: recognition of energy hierarchy, nurturing active stewardship, living with nature, and thin, flexible functionality.

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Julia Hunt

Jian Feng You, Matt Phan, Shayda Musavi,

Spring 2015 | Laura Garofalo | ARC 202

Ali Elhaddad, Ashwini Karve, Caitlin Huffman, Erika Ortega-Afay, Sadi Dhakhwa, Randy

Landscape + Housing explores the theme of modern architectural history and precedents in conjunction with dwellings and personal occupation.

Analyzing the basic materials, methods, tools, and conventions of architectural design along with data from the landscape and environmental conditions, Landscape + Housing rethinks the housing typology.

Studying the connections between design precedent and the physical and visual environments allows primary architectural methods to be implemented, including transformations, connections, threshold conditions, movement/storage, surface/structure, and accessibility.

Fernando, Amanda Mumford, Nicholas Bottiglieri, Bridget Jansen, Kailey McDermott, Summer 2015 | Sean Burkholder Costa Rica Study Abroad

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Sustainable Futures is an interdisciplinary program in architecture, landscape architecture, and planning involving five university partners and the Monteverde Institute, which offers students the opportunity to live and work in a rural, but rapidly developing, region on the Pacific coast of Costa Rica. This is a "service learning" engagement that focuses on community-identified projects that help envision and create futures that are ecologically and socially just. Since the program's inception in 1995, the Sustainable Futures program has contributed to planning, design, and construction throughout the area.

Sustainable Futures uses practice as a learning approach, and introduces intervention theory as the organizing perspective: how to organize to do work and how to engage a diverse and complex community in place-making.

The work focuses on generating responses to community requests in order to generate a public dialogue.

Themes that are examined in the various proposals examine sustainable design, waste management, water and land conservation, biomimicry

There are a total of 46 wall tanks in the housing unit. The total water storage capacity within the walls is 18,000 liters, or 4,755 gallons of water.

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Regenerative Morphologies explores "breakage" as a strategy for architecture to respond to changing forces. While failure in nature is considered to be a part of natural adaptation, architectural failureor the failure to resist change exerted by environmental forcesresults in catastrophe. Regenerative Morphologies takes the position that rather than resist dynamic forces, architecture must accommodate forces through a morphology and materiality that allows for breakage and variability. A system able to break in predictable ways allows for potential "life after" deformations. Regenerative Morphologies deploys a parts-to-whole system where wholes can reassemble, reconfigure, and regenerate through broken parts. Regenerative Morphologies proposes a program of a research laboratory in Antarcticaa context in which relatively few facilities remain functional or even habitable due to the changing landscape. This thesis proposes a structure that could dynamically inhabit this environment by disassembling and reassembling as the landscape around it shifts. The study of ocean currents and the rate of glacial melting are becoming increasingly critical to understanding climate change.

Currently, GPS trackers are placed on icebergs that can only track movement, but not fully document their physical devolution. This laboratory would allow for occupancy and closer study of such glacial landscapes and the Antarctic environment.

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