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JEJAK Michelle Clara MSAAD’21 Columbia GSAPP

jejak [indonesian noun] 1. a trace 2. a surviving mark, sign, or evidence of the former existence, influence, or action 3. a barely discernible indication or evidence of some quantity, quality, characteristic, and expression

Throughout my journey in Columbia GSAPP, I grasp on the roots of my trajectory that started from an archipelago country called Indonesia. Born and raised in Jakarta, the fastest-sinking city in the world, had exposed me to the presence of constant flooding and projected sea level rise with one of its crucial factor rooted in the inherited colonialism imprinted on the city planning and architecture.

JEJAK is the trace of my process in learning, unlearning, and relearning architecture to liberate the framework of design process from a hierarchical and colonial approach towards a more nuanced ethics of care.

Most projects challenges the existing context as a medium to govern and support the communities.

GSAPP FALL 2020 FORMAL/INFORMAL STUDIO

JACKSON HEIGHTS, QUEENS

INSTRUCTOR Phu Hoang TEAM Renee Gao Devansh Mehta PUBLICATION ABSTRACT 2020

THE OPEN TOWER

Balancing unpredictability and architectural authorship, the Open Tower reframes the conventional high-rise as a heterogeneous and non-hierarchical vertical city. The project democratizes the space, allowing its occupants to control informality and programming public agoras along the entirety of the tower, generating a new ground for immigrants displaced by climate change.

GSAPP SPRING 2021 MARK-MAKING, PLACEKEEPING STUDIO

RECLAIMING RECLAMATION

CILINCING, JAKARTA

Living in constant disruption of eviction threats throughout history, Cilincing Fishing Village is one of Jakarta North Coast’s inhabitants who will shortly face direct ecological and political erasure. Reclaiming Reclamation aims to propose an adaptive urban infrastructure that mainly focuses on mangrove restoration, fish farming through silvofishery, and preserving the local activities. Through the ethics of care as a foundational approach, the fishing community is equipped with the elements to adapt to political and environmental scenarios. Giving this agency to the fishing community can reclaim their place and livelihood while adapting to the government reclamation plan.

INSTRUCTORS Justin G. Moore and Alicia O. Ajayi PUBLICATION Oculus Magazine Summer 2021

GSAPP SUMMER 2021 THE BEACH LAB STUDIO

BEACH EXPLORATORIUM

MASTIC BEACH

Beach exploratorium introduces a new mode of learning and preserving ecology at the same time through handson experience at Violet’s Cove, Mastic Beach, Long Island. By implementing the binary of permanent and temporary elements of design, the proposal focuses on designing the experience on the boardwalk by aligning existing landscape elements: marshes, native vegetation, mounds, and water.

INSTRUCTOR Tei Carpenter IN COLLABORATION WITH Jenifer Tello