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U N SPI N Unspin borrows mechanics of the

maple seed and the gannet to emphasize a fast twisting motion as a means to gracefully move down through gravity.

The gannet as it dives into the water transforms from fully spread wings to a compressed form resembling a dart. The maple seed uses its unique shape to spin as it falls resulting in longer airtime. Using these mechanics, when the object is dropped, its seed like wings begin to rotate upwards and start to spin the object creating both air resistance and lift. To add additional lift I added a helicopter like system at the top which is powered by the energy stored in a twisted rubber band. The seed like wings rotate counterclockwise as well as the rotors but the rubber band creates a counterforce which causes the body to spin clockwise. However the wings counter this force and so allow for the entire object to spin counterclockwise with the rotors going at much higher revolutions than the body itself. The result is a system working perfectly together to allow the object to spin down slowly.

The materials used were plexiglass, aluminum and rubber.

The clear and metal look allowed for a haze like transparency which made the rubber band stand out as a sort of high energy piece. If you could see the through the body of the gannet and have its heart glow, this is what it would like.

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Unhinge analyzes the intersection of 14th st and 6th av, looking at the unique chamfered corners that create public gathering zones. In particular the southwest corner is the best example of how the chamfered corner can push the boundary between sidewalk and building, private and public. The store located at the street level opens up to the corner pushing its program to the exterior while attracting the gatherers to the interior. The corner is parallel to the urban grid created in Barcelona but within this city, a very different street-scape coexists.

The Gothic Quarter is a series of intersections. That exclude the car and allow for people to walk freely on the streets. The intersections themselves create public gathering space.Unhinge looks to transform the chamfered corner to a right corner while taking over the sidewalk and activating the intersection as the new gathering space. It is an aggressive move against the cars of the city imagining a future without them as people reclaim the streets.

The explorations of this project looked to create different ways of transforming a corner from a chamfered edge to a 90 degree angle while at the same time moving forward towards the street intersection. In three different layers this was achieved. The material used was solid concrete in order to understand what it meant to move and rotate an extremely heavy object. The 3rd aspect of Unhinge is to create voids in the chamfered corner and once Unhinged, architecturalize the voids into inhabitable spaces of various scales to push the public space not only out to the street but simultaneously vertically into the architecture itself. It is an aggressive move against the cars of the city imagining a future without them as people reclaim the streets.

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LUST & FOND

New York City is a magnet for the lost. It is a place where people come in search for their identity. It is a catalyst for romance and at the same time anti romance. However the opportunity always exists. You can find a lover in the nearest coffee shop or you will find a hook up in the closet park but you don’t exactly choose which of the two you get. As quickly as you find your next life partner you will lose them for your next sexual urge. This is simply the nature of New York City.

The architecturalization of this transient phenomenon means designing a space to encourage these interactions, embody the attraction of humans to other humans and define it as a transitional moment and nothing more.

Lust and Fond is a portal underground to hide the grotesque sexual nature humans have while celebrating it away from the jungle above. The format is a translation of the tinder app to architecture. The space will serve as an appetizer for the subway. The various program elements will be the magnets masking the Trojan horse of the program. In between the time you arrive and your train arrives you may have found the love of your life until next time when you find your next love of your life. Lust and Fond is also an oasis within an underground void. The architecture is lightly centered within. The sounds are masked by a stream of water constantly flowing underneath in darkness. While the space serves as an access point to the subway it sits as its own realm perpendicular to it as a transitional folly as well as a programmatic moment of pause.

The architecturalization of Tinder is creating moments in which interactions can transition into private decisions which result in public occurrences. A person traversing through the space may pass by someone they like. Two zones separate people who then can create their own profile based on camera footage and can “swipe left or right� on other candidates in the opposite zones. If matched it is up to the candidates themselves to determine if they will say anything to the opposite party. This interaction is a function as well as a direct public performance.

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SENSE PAVILION

Piers in NYC are known for having relaxing green spaces that extend out to the river to escape the noise of the city. Unfortunately these aren’t always accessible through the year due to various weather conditions, especially since cold weather is intensified as you go out into the river. I saw this as a problem that prevented the yearlong enjoyment of the river and the beautiful views it provides.

Sense Pavilion is designed as an indoor pier that forces you to question whether you really are indoors at all. It is also created as a sound instrument to emphasize the escape of the noise of the city and act as an area of white noise serenity and peace. It is a unique green space with varying topological features. The site is located on the east river close to the East River Outdoor Gym. It was placed directly in front of a dense tree area in order to transition seamlessly from city to greenery to indoor greenery. The pier is enclosed with a curtain wall system as to allow as much light in without compromising views or thermal comfort. The roof is made up of a complex metal structure holding up a series of tubes that are open from the top side. The tubes act as mouthpiece for the wind to blow into and create a distinctive hum. The hum varies throughout the pier due to the variation in size of the tubes that start to mimic a terrain. The result is a beautiful chandelier instrument reflecting light into the pier. The roof is held up as delicately as possible through a series of columns that hold the structure in a suspension and allow a hole to appear on the roof. This is the only place in the pier where it is exposed to weather. Rain water is allowed to flow down through the column and in 3 different points go into the hidden area of the project which exists underground. The final part of the Sense Pavilion is tucked under the landscape, accessible through a spiral staircase on the column. This space is completely open to the outside in contrast with the rest of the building.

It allows for just the noise of the waves crashing on the edge to be heard while offering a very distinctive view to the East River and Brooklyn.

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AUGMENTED LIBRARY DUM-

BO, Brooklyn is in economic prosperity, with many tech companies and firms choosing it as their business center. However, a few housing projects still exist in the areas with very little connection to a transportation fabric. There is an opportunity to connect both the low-income neighborhood and DUMBO to an inclusive library meant to benefit all types of people and provide educative opportunities surrounding the new technologies that exist today. The Augmented Library is connected to a bike lane and bike share system to allow for the connections to low-income neighborhoods. The building is lifted to create public space and allow for bicycle parking.

Magic leaps integration into the library has enhanced the reading experience with limitless opportunities. It has the ability to bring a book to life and provide learning liaison through text detection that works in real time to reference words, excerpts, places, and people. Text detection also enables magic leap to have the capability to read the word you are currently looking at in order to aid those not fully literate in any language.

The reading room is fully integrated with magic leap station and as the main circulation space surrounding sculptural columns. The magic leap reading stations all face in to the sculptural column and while provide the opportunity to simply read, interactive and community experiences could be created through the atrium.

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D O M E S T I C I T Y

This housing block looks to question traditional room typologies such as bedroom, kitchen and bathroom and redefine dwelling spaces in reference to domestic objects. These objects exist in the determinate space which is pushed to the perimeter of the unit while leaving the indeterminate space in the center. Each determinant space is given a portion of infrastructure such as a sink that affects plasticity of the space.

However, placement of objects and furniture are not influenced by traditional domestic spaces. The user is free to develop new relationships between objects and spaces within the unit. This idea is supplemented with a system of curtains on tracks that allow connections between spaces to be created in the indeterminate space. The determinate spaces are clad with channel glass. The more objects are housed in the determinate space the more privacy is given to the user but less light is available. The domestic objects therefore shapes the space. Each unit has a different combination of determinate spaces which allows the indeterminate spaces to stack while creating a field of determinate spaces from the exterior of the building. The aggregating of units is in the form of a double loaded corridor with stacking units. The double corridor acts like a zipper that disconnects and reconnects the corridors. The siting creates pockets of public space for the city to host possible markets and a number of activities.

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SCHOOLOFCONSTRUCTION

Many homes in Newburgh are in a state of decay. The poor economic situation in the city has left many of its residents in the lower class with little oppor tunity of Jobs. The demolition of these decaying buildings is costing the city on average $80,000 per home. The School of Constr uction ser ves a dual purpose by providing education sur rounding building constr uction as well as a building recycling center meant to bring in demolished buildings and output new homes for the city. This would create jobs in the constr uction sector as well as provide education for the residents to empower them to rebuild their city. The demolished materials would be brought into the campus via a dual purpose cable c ar that by night would ser ve as a sor t of crane and by day would provide citizens of Newburgh an iconic and romantic for m of transpor tation that would span from the airpor t all the way to Beacon.

The campus also creates a promenade folly to which all residents of Newburgh can enjoy.

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WATERWORKSHAMMOUD

Djerba is a large island in Tunisia with history dating back to the time of Homer’s Odyssey. For the last 1000 years the religious sect of Islam called the Ibadi’s have peacefully lived a very unique lifestyle with very little outside trade and influence. Land was divided equally and justly. These territories are called Menzels, having enough land for sustainable agriculture. They use well systems and large water collecting slabs to ensure their water consumption needs are met.

Clusters of family generations of Menzels with time have been created such as the Ibn Hammoud Community. The many generations have thrived off of agriculture and trade.

Mosque Mourou was built by them for them to be able to pray. Recently however, the contamination of the wells with e. coli and high levels of nitrates has denied them direct access to clean water for drinking and agriculture. Their daily needs are met by collecting water off-site and bringing it back via tanks. My proposal, Waterworks Hammoud, is tapping into Djerba’s historic use of water collection slabs and augmenting its use in both size and program. The project only digs into the ground to create basins. A system of collecting, draining, filtering and storing ensures clean water that is available year round. The slabs serve a duel purpose, creating social infrastructure for the community such as prayer/burial rituals, cooking and eating, and agriculture.

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ELDORADO FLUTUANTE

Our project, titled Eldorado Flutuante, examines how colonial histories and modern consumer appetites have fostered a neo-colonial history of material extraction in the brazilian Amazon. Our project seeks to mitigate the deleterious attitude projected onto the jungle by re-imagining the relationship between miner and mined. El Dorado Flutante acknowledges the economic incentives placed unto the artisanal miners in Amazonia and seeks to re-establish this correlation through fluid interventions in the Amazon. Eldorado Flutuante attempts to critically rethink the violent dynamics of gold mining. We engage with the industry’s current infrastructural networks and extractive processes in the Amazon Basin, focusing specifically on mineral transport and the associated down-stream human and ecological consequences. Our project reorientates gold mining towards more sustainable and humane ends by using nontoxic mining and immediate reforestation while promising vital resources and improved living conditions for the workers. Our project will partner with two actors currently operating in gold mines in the Amazon. UNIDO and PureEarth. By using these programs as models of mercury free gold separation and post gold extraction land remediation, we seek to mitigate the ecological and human violence, but we acknowledge it exists. The town’s success lies upon its ability to extract gold in an ecologically conscious manner. The gold processing center allows for gravitational gold separation to happen on land in this compact and movable vessel. The method of gold extraction used here releases no toxins to the water or land. On board the floating machine there is a certification area as well as a secure

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