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GRETA G COLUMBIA MASTER

2021 EDITION

M A K I N G D I R T S

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CRISPEN P UNIVERSITY ARCHITECTURE

JUNE 2020

JANUARY 2021

I KILLED ALL THE PLANTS, SPENSER. DURING THE PANDEMIC. THE BEAUTIFUL FERN - GONE. I TOOK THE DEAD PLANTS AND GAVE THEM A NEW LIFE AS THE DIRT. I POURED WATER WHERE I ONCE FORGOT AND I USED MY HANDS TO BREAK APART THE ROOTS. IT TAUGHT ME ABOUT COLLECTIVE INHABITATION AT THE INDIVIDUAL LEVEL AND AT THE URBAN. IT TAUGHT ME ABOUT PROCESS. IT TAUGHT ME ABOUT MATERIAL FLOW. I ACTED AS A STEWARD FOR WHAT WAS NEEDED INSTEAD OF A CREATOR OF WHAT WAS DESIRED.

I THOUGHT ABOUT THE PLANTS, THE

EARTH THAT WAS IN MY HANDS. I THOUGHT ABOUT THIS WORK.

THE

FOLLOWING

GROWS

FROM

ARCHIVE ELEMENTAL

C O N S I D E R A T I O N S

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ACADEMY ECOLOGICALLY URBAN O Y S

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SOIL,

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PROJECTS

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OF MUSIC

DIRT N E INFILL PLAY HALL

ARE

REDUCED TO THEIR ESSENTIAL INQUIRIES

MAKING U N CROSSHATCH LIBRARY GREENPOINT

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AGENCY,

ACCESS, AND ASSOCIATIONS.

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D YAASIN LANIER BRADLEY

THE

ACADEMY

OF

AQUATIC

REGENERATION

POSITIONS NON-HUMAN ECOLOGICAL ACTORS, HUMANS, AND THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT IN A MUTUALISM OF AHU PUA’A GUARDIANSHIP. THIS PROCESS INCLUDES RETERRITORIALIZING

ACADEMY

FOR

AQUATIC

REGENERATION

Coral reefs are the base of the watershed in an ahupua’a network, serving as a trustworthy indicator of upper, mid, and lower watershed health. Culturally, this ecological oasis is positioned as the genesis of Hawaiian culture, being referenced in the first 15 lines of the sacred 2,015 line creation chant, The Kumulipo. It is the site of transition from dry to wet and the birthplace of aquatic life and activity. As of 2020, the coral reef surrounding Waikiki has been deconstructed for imported leisure activities, the shoreline has been fragmented by private ownership, thereby worsening the already off-balance watershed health.

This Academy creates new partnerships between existing actors at the site, following in the footsteps of a strong history of civic and environmental activism within the ahupua’a.

THE ALA WAI SMALL BOAT HARBOR AS A MARINE ESTUARY AND CORAL REEF OVER A 100 YEAR PERIOD. THIS SITE WILL EDUCATE RESIDENTS AND VISITORS OF WAIKIKI IN PROCESSES OF MARINE STEWARDSHIP THROUGH A

GRADIENT

OF

DIDACTIC

SPACES.

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CONSEQUENCE OF THIS RETERRITORIZATION, THE CONSTRUCTED ECOLOGY AND CORAL NETWORK BECOME KEY COMMUNITY ACTORS AS COASTAL PROTECTION AGAINST STORM SURGE AND A HOST FOR ESSENTIAL MARINE BIODIVERSITY.

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DOMENIC LEONG CHRIS LEONG SEAN CONNELLY IN COLLABORATION WITH ADELA LOCSIN

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ACADEMY CORAL GARDENS

CONSIDERING

SCALE

THIS PAPER EXPLORES THE INTERSECTIONALITY OF DESIGN THINKING, HABITAT RESTORATION, AND SHORELINE RESILIENCY BY EXAMINING CONTEMPORARY PRACTICES OF ARTIFICIAL REEFS (AR). IT ASKS THE QUESTION IF APPROACHES FOR COASTAL CITY RESILIENCE CAN

BE

DESIGNED

TO

DEVELOP

(AR) IS COMMONLY UNDERSTOOD AS A NON-

TO

DEVELOP

OCCURRING MARINE

MINDED

RESILIENCY

Municipal investments in resiliency strategies, both hard and soft, are too limited in their approaches to address the complexity of ecosystem protection.

Hard strategies such as seawalls or soft strategies such as beach replenishing disrupt aquatic life and work against the natural ebb and flow of coastal cities. (Airoldi and Beck 2007). Soft strategies for shoreline stabilization are also an incomplete solution. With increasing erosion patterns happening on coastal shores, beach nourishment becomes economically infeasible (Harris 2006, Airoldi and Beck 2007).

There are various types of coastline habitats that work to create a buffer zone that can protect shoreline communities. Some of the habitats such as wetlands, marshlands, seagrass meadows, macro-algal beds, biogenic reefs, coral reefs and sedimentary habitats have a diversity of life and activity (Airoldi and Beck 2007).

Little research existing establishing a hierarchy of needs to reference when designing this multi-actor infrastructure, such as a reef ecosystem for shoreline resiliency (Ferrario et all cite).

AQUATIC

ECOSYSTEMS. THE TERM ARTIFICIAL REEF

GEOLOGICALLY

ECOLOGICALLY

FRAMEWORK

COMMUNITIES.

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INTER-SECTIONAL ECOLOGICAL MUNICIPAL R E S

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THINKING I

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DESIGN + DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS E N C Y

THE

INTENT OF AR IS THAT THEY EMULATE A NATURALLY THE

OCCURRING

PROTECTION,

REEF

THROUGH

REGENERATION,

CONCENTRATION, OR ENHANCING OF LIVING MARINE RESOURCES (WOO ET ALL 2005).

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FLUID VELOCITY SIMULATION

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DESIGN A

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LABS S

REEF HARRIS

BALL (2006)

RESEARCH PRECEDENTS

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NOVEL INTEGRATED REEF PLAN

REEF UNIT IN ELEVATION

URBAN

THIS PROJECT PROPOSES A DECENTRALIZED WATER GRID FOR PUBLIC HOUSING IN THE

WETLAND

New York City Housing Authority, created in 1934, currently houses 1 in 15 New Yorkers, 11.6% of all renters in the city. In the Bronx, 54,421 apartments serve 119,651 occupants. One major quell of NYCHA is the integrity of aging infrastructure, specifically the access occupants have to clean water due to corroding pipe systems. All water brought into the city comes from two watersheds within the Catskills via aqueducts and underground networks. NYC’s antiquated water system is about to see an increase in stress as one of the major aqueducts is scheduled to be closed. Added into this infrastructural issues mix is an increasing concern about storm water overflow.

Visitors to the public wetland are encouraged to engage with the bio-membrane reactor. Each residential unit contains a semi conditioned “wet-wall” that prioritizes the water downspouts. Three therapy pools in the project promote a sacred relationship with water and generate a collective healing space for the neighborhood.

BRONX. NINE BUILDINGS, 225 UNITS, SIT ATOP 100,00 SQFT OF PERVIOUS WETLAND. EACH UNIT

RESPONDS DIRECTLY TO THE

INFRASTRUCTURAL OBJECTIVITY A LOCALIZED

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DOMESTICITY THINKING P A L T U R E

WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM TO AN UNDERGROUND BIO-MEMBRANE REACTOR. THE SYSTEM HAS THE CAPACITY TO CLEAN 37,250 GALLONS PER DAY. C FALL C

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NEIGHBORHOOD BLOCK 1/16" = 1'-0" Photo by Miguel de Guzman, Courtesy of Columbia GSAPP

TYPICAL FLOOR PLAN WITH POOLS

WET WALL UNIT PLANS

WET WALL MODEL 1/4" = 1'-0"

URBAN WETLAND PLAN

BIOMEMBRANE REACTOR

WATER SYSTEM VIGNETTES

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Uniting lite manufacturing with waterway revitalization generates a dynamic intermediary zone of river and land. Lite industrial zoning areas produce artificial oyster reefs to promote the health and ecology of the Hudson River.

Issues regarding the protection, treatment, and conservation of water are integral to this project in all scales. Educational facilities focus on the nexus of marine regeneration and material systems. A commercial plaza provides outdoor respite for community members while a public Oysterland in the river serves as interactive education on the processes taking place in the Sunset Park neighborhood.

THIS

PROPOSAL

DEMANDS

FOUND

WATERFRONT AND

NEGOTIATES AT

THROUGH

ECOLOGICAL

THE

COMPETING

SUNSET A

PARK

INDUSTRIAL PARTNERSHIP.

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LANDSIDE BOAT HARBOR

SOIL

EDGEMERE QUEENS IS A BARRIER ISLAND THAT IS REGULARLY IMPACTED BY THE FORCES OF FLOODING. THE ORGANIZATION FOR THE FRAMING

SYSTEMS

TOPOGRAPHICAL

INVITES

SHIFTING

INEVITABLE FROM

EAST/

WEST. THIS PROVIDES BARRIER WALLS ON THE NORTH AND SOUTH SIDES. URBAN SOIL IS A MATRIX OF COMPOUNDS CONSTRUCTED

BY URBAN INFLUENCES OVER TIME. WITHIN EACH

GRANULATION

IS

AN

ARCHIVE

OF

MAKING

DIRT

Steel, a compound of extracted and molded iron ore, is a composition for structure, similar to that of soil.

As a pre-fabricated structure, it too embodies ephemerality through both assembly and its susceptibility to material corrosion.

Both soil and steel respond to entropic forces of naturally occurring change.

This project investigates the union of light and dense, impermanence and disintegration through a Homestead of Dirt Making. Through programmed spaces for climbing, sifting, sorting, splashing, and feeling,homesteaders themselves become natural forces of change onto their context.

Using a pre-fabricated steel structure as a means of generating site specific conditions yields a critical questioning of the barn typology as a decontextualized, generic form. Perhaps there is use for this technology to extend beyond its present understanding as a divider of interiority and exteriority.

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GEOLOGICAL OCCURRENCES AND A MEMORY OF HUMAN ACTIVITY. MILLIONS OF TONS OF DIRT UPHOLD THE FOUNDATIONS OF OUR COLLECTIVE URBAN EXISTENCE, CONNECTING EACH PERSON TO ESSENTIAL BIOLOGICAL LIFE, EVEN IF DISJOINTED

BY

ASPHALT

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CONCRETE.

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CONSTRUCTING NEW TOPOGRAPHY

non-urban area

Rockaway 0

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depth (cm)

40 60

B1

80

B2

100

C1

120

C2

metal content (mg kg-1) 0

100

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BA

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B1

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B2

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C1

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C2

140

urban area (park)

Laguardia 0

AU1

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depth (cm)

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CU2

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CU3

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metal content (mg kg-1) 0 0

depth (cm)

human-altered and transported materials (HAHT)

depth (cm)

naturally deposited materials (ND)

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AU1 AU2

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CU1

60

80 100 120

140

CU2 CU3

FILTER WALL SECTION + STUDIES

SORTING SPACE PLAN

SORTING SPACE ELEVATIONS

THE

PROPOSAL

FOR

A

MUSIC

HALL

INCORPORATES STRUCTURAL INGENUITY TO CREATE A REVERSAL OF PROGRAMMING. THIS

GREENPOINT

MUSIC

HALL

Greenpoint is a diversifying area, typical of the East River waterfront.

Industrial spaces, in use and decommissioned, line the edge of the manufacturing and mixed use zones.

Strategies to use foliage as both storm water control and solar heat protection add ecological texture to the of the space while panelized fenestration provide interior shading.

MUSIC HALL LAYERS A BLACK BOX WITH FULLY OPERABLE WALLS BELOW A SEATED AUDITORIUM

FOR

300

PEOPLE.

SUCH

A

SECTIONAL RELATIONSHIP REQUIRES CAREFUL CONSIDERATION OF STRUCTURE MEMBERS AND HVAC PLACEMENT. THE RESULT IS A SECOND

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PROGRAM OVERLAP SYSTEMS R E

FLOOR OVERLOOK AREA THAT INVITES VISITORS TO PARTICIPATE IN TWO LAYERS OF VOYEURISM WATCHING THE GROUND FLOOR BLACK BOX PERFORMANCES OR THE RIVERFRONT ACTIVITY.

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NICOLE DOSSO, JASON STONE, BERNARD MARALUCCI,TOM REINER IN COLLABORATION WITH BRAIN TURNER, ANIRUDH CHANDAR, RAHUL GUPTA

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16

17

ROOF 60' - 0" CONTROL BOOTH

INTERIOR - LEVEL 2 VIEW INTO BLACK BOX

ST SECTION

LEVEL 3 44' - 0" CORRIDOR

LOUNGE

?

LEVEL 2 27' - 0"

BLACK BOX LOBBY

BLACK BOX

BLACK BOX CHAIR STORAGE

ARBOR PIT CORRIDOR

LEVEL 1 4' - 0" Existing Grade Level 0' - 0"

STRUCTURE OVERVIEW

FACADE DETAIL

HVAC DIAGRAMS

HVAC PLAN

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Tessellations and transitions allow for geometries to shift between scale, for large to small, unit to aggregation. A perfect module can repeat indefinitely as a screen, a surface, or a structure. Yet our world is imperfect, full of rigidly occurring chaos, mutely defined disorder. Design attempts to circumvent chaos with the logic of form.

THE FOLLOWING IS AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE STRUCTURE

AND DESTRUCTURING OF

TILES. UN_BALANCE ASCRIBES STRUCTURE TO

UNITS

THAT

IS

DEFIED

IN

THE

AGGREGATION. THE RESULTING MODULATION

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CONSIDERATIONS I S I O N T I O N

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GEOMETRIES 2020 I C

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IS ONE THAT IS BUILT UPON PRECARITY.

TRANSITIONAL FALL C R JOSH JORDAN

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LIBRARY

OF

PLAY

This project purposes a library of play located in Sara Roosevelt Park, which is situated at the fulcrum of many New York City neighborhoods. In an area of town with a large diversity of language backgrounds and proficiencies as well as a large population of school age children, one can ask what type of library would be of best service.

WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BUILD A LIBRARY

Through an interrogation of form arises a building designed to be rolled on, leaned against, and slide over. The reconsideration of our traditional horizontal planes, floors and walls, as concave and convex boundaries encourages a new method of engagement between building and occupant.

WITHIN A PARK? WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BUILD A LIBRARY IN AN AREA WHERE LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE IS NOT THE MAIN MEANS OF

COMMUNICATION?

TRADITIONALLY CONVEX

OR

CAN

PLANAR

CONCAVE

RISE TO A DIDACTIC

WE

RECONSIDER

SURFACES

OBJECTS

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SPACE OF PLAY?

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NEW ICONOGRAPHY

CROSSHATCH

THE NEIGHBORHOOD OF WASHINGTON HEIGHTS IS A TAPESTRY OF CULTURE AND HERITAGE. IN 2018, 69.5% OF PEOPLE IN THE AREA

INFILL

Due to these social and economic influences, the street life of Washington heights is lively with citizen driven activities: card games, dancing, local food and clothing sidewalk vendors.

The urban fabric of this area is equally as rich with Pre-War brick construction that follows Steven Holl’s metropolitan reading of Alphabet City. Apartment buildings with street facing light wells- A, U, Y, H shapes, provide a unique moment to interface with the sidewalk activity via a stretch of medians dividing Broadway.

8’ infill to existing light wells and 17’ above Broadway, these new apartments nest within the context. The first level of the intervention acts as a communal flex space for the apartments and includes laundry and study spaces. The slender apartments utilize built in storage and unique wall configuration to maximize space allocation.

IDENTIFIED AS HISPANIC1, PREDOMINATELY PEOPLE OF DOMINICAN LINEAGE, MARKING

R

IT AS ONE OF THE MOST HEAVILY HISPANIC

URBAN GRAFTING BUILDING

AREAS

IN

MANHATTAN.2

THE

MEDIAN

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S FRABRIC INFILL TYPOLOGY

+

HOUSEHOLD INCOME OF THIS AREA IS 15% BELOW

THE

CITYWIDE

MEDIAN

AND

ALSO

HAS A SLIGHTLY HIGHER POVERTY RATE. C FALL C

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URBAN FABRIC INTERVENTION TYPICAL NORTH SECTION

MASSING STRATEGY

ELEVATION BROADWAY

FRONT LOADED KITCHEN

SPLIT KITCHEN

CENTRALIZED KITCHEN CONTEXT MAPPING

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F L O W

WHEN

THESE

AFTER

SITES

ARE

DECOMMISSIONED

SATISFYING

ANTHROPOCENTRIC

OTHER

OPPORTUNISTIC

DESIRES, LIFEFORMS

TAKE

OVER,

EXTRACTED

ECOLOGIES

Within the new territory arises a unique symbiosis of human influence and nonhuman place making. Such a relationship questions the contrived, picturesque notion of “N”ature as a object for human pleasure and respite. Instead, these sites give an opportunity to divulge into a more complicated dialogue of industrial impact on terrestrial conditions.

THEREIN

GENERATING A NEW ECOLOGICAL FRAMEWORK. THE

POST-INDUSTRIAL

KINGSTON,

NEW

YORK

CONDITION IS

A

MOSAIC

OF OF

ACUPUNCTURES LANDSCAPES. RESOURCES FROM THIS AREA HAVE BEEN MINED FOR METROPOLITAN GAIN

FOR

GENERATIONS.

THE

RUINS

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A T

OF

MATERIAL EXTRACTION GENERATE A HISTORICAL MAPPING OF THE PREVIOUS ECONOMIC DRIVERS.

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NAHYUN HWANG IN COLLABORATION WITH DAVID MUSA

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SITE ARCHIVE

CREATE A UNION OF METHANE EMISSIONS, DECOMMISSIONED HYDROGEN

INFRASTRUCTURE,AND

ELECTRIC

TECHNOLOGY.

ENERGY INDEPENDENCE AND CLIMATE CHANGE ARE TWO CONCERNS THAT THREATEN GLOBAL AND DOMESTIC SECURITY OF THE UNITED STATES. AS ENGINEERING AND SCIENTIFIC ADVANCEMENTS OF THE 21ST CENTURY MAKE COLONIZING

MARS

SEEM

LIKE

A

NEAR

REALITY, THE LOCAL EXPERIENCE ON EARTH

REFARMING

POWER

The fuel that we use to power our lives-from our food to our electric- is a huge contribution to the larger threat of climate uncertainty.

What would an imaginary of energy sources derived from food waste look like?

Could decentralized nodes of power production grow out of the remnants of food production?

Diminishing reserves of coal throughout the US threaten power availability while also opening an opportunity to shift a fuel source that reduces the emissions of one of the largest methane contributors.

Process: Methane gas is harvested and captured from dairy cow manure.

That gas is reformed into hydrogen and used to power electric currents.

These grids replace existing coal power plants and service the local community.

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SYSTEMS FUEL ENERGY A L

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STILL DEPENDS OF ENERGY INNOVATIONS FOR THE 19TH AND 20TH CENTURIES. PROGRESS IN THE ENERGY SECTOR HAS BEEN STIFLED BY

BUREAUCRATIC

FRAGMENTED BIG

INEFFICIENCIES,

PRIVATIZATION,

INDUSTRY

BOTTOM

AND LINES.

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WASTE AS SOLUTION

CH4

CH4Anerobic ANEROBICDigesters DIGESTER caputre methane

MANURE LagoonLAGOON Covers COVER caputre methane

rce

Dairy Farm new fuel source methane

lants rastructure de

STEAM METHANE REFORMING ANEROBICDigesters DIGESTER Anerobic caputre methane

convert methane gas STEAM METHANE RE to electricty

convert methane to electricty

MANURE LagoonLAGOON Covers COVER caputre methane

FUEL CELLS Fuel Cells store hydrogen

FUEL CELLS Fuel Cells store hydrogen

Coal Power Plants existing infrastructure carbon dioxide

Hydrogen Powered Hydrogen Powered Electric emerging technology emerging tech water vaper + water vaper + heat

CO2

CO2

HYBRIDIZING EXISTING

METHODS

Hydrogen Electric Low emission energy source to power electric grids

VS

NEW

METHANE CH4 9.5% of US Greenhouse Gas emissions (GHG) in 2018.

POWER PROPOSAL

Global Warming

CH4 has 23x the Global Warming Potential than CO2

Needs

Fuel Cells

Proximity

49%

Lagoons

Hydrogen gas is produced through two processes: steam methane reforming and electrolysis

Fuel cells act as high power batteries for hydrogen. This technology has been used in the NASA Gemini missions

Hydrogen gas is best used close the source.

Partnering dairy farms with near by power authorities reduces risks of gas leaks

Between 1990 and 2006, methane emissions from dairy cow manure in the US increased 49%

This increase is partially to do with manure lagoons, an industrial solution for collection biological waste from large farms

THESE

PROJECTS

ARE

APART

OF

A

LARGER

INTERROGATION

QUESTIONING

THE

ROLE

OF

ARCHITECTURE

AS

AN

AGENT OF STEWARDSHIP FOR NON-HUMAN ACTORS. THIS APPROACH TO DESIGN RE-IMAGINES THE POSSIBILITIES OF BUILT FORM BEYOND THE SERVICE IT PROVIDES TO ANTHROPOCENTRIC INDUSTRY OR ECONOMY. MANY OF THE MASTER PROVIDE

PLANNING

AND

UNLIKELY

MATERIAL

CONSIDERATIONS

OPPORTUNITIES

FOR

OF

THESE

RECUPERATION.

PROJECTS

PURPOSE

RECONFIGURING

PERICAPITAL

HARMONIES

SPACES

BETWEEN

WHICH

CAPITALIST

PRODUCTIVITY AND POLYPHONIC ASSEMBLAGES OPEN SPACE FOR AN AUTHENTIC UNDERSTANDING OF WORLD MAKING.1

THIS WORK SEEKS TO SITUATE SITE, COMMUNITY, AND FORM AS THEY EXIST TODAY AS ACTORS WITH THEIR OWN SOVEREIGNTY. THERE IS AN ACCEPTANCE OF STATE AS IS WITHIN THESE PROJECTS. STATE AS IS LOOKS OBJECTIVELY AT THE MEMORY OF A SITE AS WELL AS THE PRESENT CONDITIONS WITHOUT BIAS AND EXPLORES THE HOLOGRAPHIC CONTEXTS BY WHICH THE FUTURE OF PLACE CAN BE DESIGNED.2

THESE ARE NOT UTOPIAN CONSTRUCTS SEEKING A ROMANTICIZED PICTURESQUE NATURE. IN FACT, THE NOTION OF NATURE

IS

FUNDAMENTALLY

QUESTIONED

IN

THESE

PROJECTS.

THE

DICHOTOMY

OF

NATURE

AND

CONSTRUCTED

LAND IS A LOGICAL FALLACY. AT THIS POINT IN OUR COLLECTIVE ONTOLOGY, HUMAN INTERVENTION HAS BUILT UPON TO

ITSELF OTHER

AS

A

HUMANS

PALIMPSEST FROM

OF

MANIPULATION,

ECOLOGICAL

SYSTEMS,

EXPLOITATION, THEREIN

AND

MAKING

RECOVERY. ECOLOGICAL

NATURE

IS

A

EXPLOITATION

CONSTRUCT EASIER.

TO MAKE DIRT IS TO EMBODY STEWARDSHIP IN THE DESIGN PROCESS. STEWARDSHIP SERVES TO RECONFIGURE THE LIFE CYCLE OF THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT AS A LIVING BEING. THE NOTION OF STEWARDSHIP EXISTS ON AN ETERNAL TIMELINE. HUMANS, AS ACTORS OF EXTRACTION AND CONSTRUCTION, ARE THEREIN RESPONSIBLE FOR THE MAINTENANCE AND WELLBEING OF THE NEW LANDSCAPE INDEFINITELY. 1 2015.

2

Both pericaptial and polyphonic assemblages are concepts developed upon in Chapter 1: Arts of Noticing. Tsing,Ana Lowenhaupt. The Mushroom at the End of the World.

A deep understanding of Holographic conditions can be found in Holographic Epistemology. Meyer, Dr. Manualani. Holographic Epistemology: Native Common Sense. 2013