Lucy Navarro ’20 MArch Columbia GSAPP

Lucy Navarro ON SYSTEMS COLUMBIA GSAPP 2020

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LIST OF CONTENTS IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER 2017-2020

CH.1 Core I Pier x Critic: Brandt Knapp Core II Library For The Illiterate Critic: Christoph Kumpusch Core III The Common Wealth And The Common Good Critic: Galia Solomonoff Core IV Mobile Infrastructure Critic: Richard Plunz Core V Greenlining East Harlem Critic: Mabel Wilson Collaborator: Alex Wong Core VI Scales of Fragility Critic: Pedro Rivera Collaborator: Gauri Bahuguna

CH.2 ADR I Architectural Drawing And Representation Critic: Josh Uhl ADR II Architectural Drawing And Representation Critic: Dan Taeyoung AT V Advanced Urban Systems Integration Critic: Craig Schwitters Plastic Modernity History non western Critic: Luis Carranza Metropolitan Sublimes History Urban Critic: Sandro Marpillero Footprint: Carbon And Design Design Elective Critic: David Benjamin

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CH.1

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SYSTEMS:

of materiality

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of agency

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of regeneration

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of community

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of response

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of collectives

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LIBRARY FOR THE ILLITERATE CORE II Instructor: Christoph Kumpusch

This project evolved from the intent to define an architecture for the “other�. Utilizing various material explorations reconstructing new ways of making and drawing.

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THE ILLITERATE

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MATERIALITY

SYSTEMS rup·ture

di·vi·sion

verb

1. (especially of a pipe, a vessel, or a bodily part such as an organ or membrane) break or burst suddenly. "if the main artery ruptures he could die" synonyms: break, fracture, crack, breach, burst, split, fissure More 2. breach or disturb (a harmonious feeling or situation). "once trust has been ruptured it can be difficult to regain" synonyms: sever, break off, breach, disrupt; literarysunder "the problem ruptured their relationships"

f1.b

noun 1. an instance of breaking or bursting suddenly and completely. "a small hairline crack could develop into a rupture"

un·cer·tain·ty

1. the state of being stretched tight. "the parachute keeps the cable under tension as it drops" synonyms: tightness, tautness, rigidity;

1. the state of being uncertain. "times of uncertainty and danger" synonyms: unpredictability, unreliability, riskiness, chanciness, precariousness, changeability, variability, inconstancy, fickleness, caprice

noun

2. mental or emotional strain. "a mind that is affected by stress or tension cannot think as clearly" synonyms: strain, stress, anxiety, pressure;

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verb 1.

1. a force to (something) that tends to apply stretch theit.cracking or breaking of a hard object or

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rup·ture verb

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material. "bone density testing can predict the f4.brisk for fracture" synonyms: breaking, breakage, cracking, fragmentation, splintering, rupture "the risk of vertebral fracture"

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something that is uncertain or causes one to feel uncertain "the uncertainty of the stock market" doubt, lack of certainty, indecision, irresolution, hesitancy, unsureness, doubtfulness, wavering, vacillation, equivocation, vague

frac·ture

2. disagreement between two or more groups, typically producing tension or hostility. "a growing sense of division between north and south" f2.b

ten·sion noun

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2. the replacement of a simple vowel by a diphthong owing to the influence of a following sound, typically a consonant.

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f1.b

verb 1. break or cause to break. "the stone has fractured" synonyms: break, crack, shatter, splinter, split, rupture; informalbust "the glass fractured"

UNDER CONSTRUCTION

1. (especially of a pipe, a vessel, or a bodily part such as an organ or membrane) break or burst suddenly. "if the main artery ruptures he could die" synonyms: break, fracture, crack, breach, burst, split, fissure More 2. breach or disturb (a harmonious feeling or situation). "once trust hastower been 5 .0ruptured it can be difficult to regain" f5.a synonyms: sever, break off, breach, disrupt; literarysunder "the problem ruptured their relationships" noun 1. an instance of breaking or bursting suddenly and completely.

UNDER CONSTRUCTION "a small hairline crack could develop into a rupture"

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The process involves iteration between monumental cast models, drawings, sketches and animations. f2.b interior view

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THE ILLITERATE

erior view

noun 1. the action of separating something into parts, or the process of being separated. "the division of the land into small fields" synonyms: dividing (up), breaking up, breakup, carving up, splitting, dissection, bisection;

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THE ILLITERATE

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CONSTRUCTION

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THE ILLITERATE

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CONSTRUCTION

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THE ILLITERATE

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GREENLINING EAST HARLEM

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Greenlining East Harlem mobilizes two perspectives— one through community activism, issues of displacement, environmental racism, where methodologies of reparation are evoked and the other through city sponsored interventions and consultation.

CORE V

GREENLINING

CORE V Instructor: Mabel Wilson TA: Jordan Carver Collaborator: Alex Wong Buell Center Prize: Honorable Mention Selected Presenters for BSA Home Symposium

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AGENCY

SYSTEMS GREENLINING

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East Harlem, a historically redlined neighborhood has many legacies of the once rampant policies of segregation and racial discrimination seen such as environmental toxicity and the proliferation of fast food restaurants.

The project addresses and mediates the environmental crisis of flooding by allowing housing to flood via new infrastructure. Cultural and institutional retrofitting and transformations leverage people, buildings, vacant lots and infrastructures in the historically deprived neighborhood of East Harlem.

Greenlining creates opportunities and new modes of sustainability, healthier lifestyles, and new housing construction. It employs the impending environmental disaster of flooding as a trigger to accelerate social, economic and cultural-political changes in a neighborhood.

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By filtering, blurring, limiting and redistributing a set of systems we aim to erase the boundaries that redlining has enabled.

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GREENLINING

Presently, East Harlem contains the highest geographical concentration of public housing projects in the United States. In comparison with the rest of Manhattan and NYC, is a predominantly low-income, working class minority community, with higher than average unemployment and poverty rates.

Violence of the line in redlining, felt not just on aerial view (understanding mortgage rates and property prices on maps), but locally on human scale,streets lined with fast food chains, predatory financial operations e.g. check-cashing; the district is Representative of the legacies caused by racial segregation and redlining- still felt today with fast food proliferations, higherthan-average construction frequencies, high air and water pollution rates, low wealth accumulation percentages of local residents, all sources of toxicity in both environment and culture pollution rates, low wealth accumulation percentages of local residents, all sources of toxicity in both environment and culture. The continual toxification of the environment calls for new ways of protecting the body and the neighborhood.

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REGENERATION

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PIER X CORE I Instructor: Brandt Knapp This project proposes a living laboratory that aims to clean up the east river. Mobilizing small machines,the laboratory filters and monitors data from the water to rehabilitate its river habitat.

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LIVING EDGE LAB

RESEARCH LABORATORY

BROOKLYN NAVY YARD

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REGENERATION

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REGENERATION

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REGENERATION

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growth

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bio-sensing infrastructure

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The common wealth and the public good

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This project aims to tackle food insecurity in the Bronx by transforming private space into shared spaces for the community. Water towers become water parks, waste digesters become bbq grills and patios become shared urban spaces of both leisure and production.

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COMMON WEALTH

CORE III Instructor: Galia Solomonoff

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THIRD AVE.

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CALREMONT PKWY

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COMMUNE

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RESPONSE

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MOBILE INFRASTRUCTURE CORE IV Joint Architecture+Planning studio Arch Instructor: Richard Plunz Plan Instructor: Doug Woodward TA: Ubaldo Escalante

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Mobile Infrastructure calls for a rapid post-disaster response team integrated with innovation in renewable alternative infrastructure. It is a response to the systemic issues stemming from malfunctioning infrastructure in Puerto Rico, put in evidence by Hurricane Maria.

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TAINO RANGER

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The proposal calls for the implementation of a proficient ranger unit. These rangers would allow for patrols to scout remote areas of the island and communicate conditions.

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COLLECTIVES

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Scales of fragility: re thinking the acai trade CORE VI Instructor: Pedro Rivera TA: Khoi Nguyen Collaborator: Gauri Bahuguna

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Our proposal operates as a collective in the waterways of Para: a series of architectural interventions that connect remote ribeirinhos and bring them to decentralized processing facilities.

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CORE VI

The ribeirinhos picking acai have no choice but to sell their fruit at whatever price is offered to them by middlemen, while large factory owners are able to sell acai at very high prices to health conscious consumers in Southern Brazil and California.

We believe this system is imbalanced, and that the ribeirinhos deserve a larger slice of the profits of their immense labor.

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on energy

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on infrastructure

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on erasure

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on urbanity

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on representation

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on methods

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ENERGY CORE V

SYNOPSIS FOOTPRINT

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A seminar and workshop with the Museum of Modern Art and the United Nations. Exploring issues of embodied energy and carbon sequestration.

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FOOTPRINT

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MOBILITY

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WATER

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ENERGY

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This group project aims to integrate waste, energy, water and transit into a decentralized technology campus in Newark NJ.

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SYNOPSIS PLASTIC MODERNITY

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A look into the plastic integration of sculpture and stained glass design for “El Altillo”. With a focus on the altar pieces by Kitzia Hofmann who was never properly credited for her contribution.

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ERASURE

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PLASTIC MODERNITY

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ERASURE

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URBANITY CORE V

SYNOPSIS METROPOLITAN SUBLIMES

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Understanding of concepts of art, environment and collective social life, while incorporating ethnographic research that offers different modes of relating subjective experience and nature.

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URBANITY

METROPOLITAN SUBLIMES

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REPRESENTATION

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A series of examinations into the blur building

by Diller Scofidio designed and built for the 2002 swiss expo. These representations explore both models and drawings diving into the deconstruction and decontextualization of the building.

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REPRESENTATION

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SYNOPSIS ADR II

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Exploring new methods of representation through the use of photogrammetry, video, collage.

Focusing on new ways of seeing the campus.

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