UMSoA Final Reviews - Spring 2016

University of Miami School of Architecture

FINAL JURY REVIEWS

SPRING 2016

Saturday, April 16 to Tuesday, April 26, 2016

Dear Guests, Faculty and Students, At the end of each term, UMSoA students, faculty, guest critics and members of the community participate in the Final Review, a tradition that has long defined architectural education in North America. Alternative models for the submission and evaluation of student work at the end of the term exist, but none have seriously challenged this institution despite some of its pedagogical shortcomings. Arguably, the pedagogical benefits do not entirely account for the enduring success of the traditional Final Review. Equally important is the public aspect of the event: how the work, the ideas that drive it and the debates that it generates are exposed to the public in a participatory event. Our Final Reviews enact the broader cultural relevance of our projects at UMSoA and demonstrate the diverse ways in which we tackle them. Most valuable are instances where comments depart from individual projects to launch into a broader discussion about the ideas that animate the school and position our efforts in the ongoing public debate.

Rodolphe el-Khoury, Dean School of Architecture University of Miami

FINAL REVIEWS at the University of Miami UM SoA - 1223 Dickinson Drive, Coral Gables, FL 33146 at the Moore Building, Design District 3841 NE 2nd Ave #400, Miami, FL 33137

ROOMS JMPAC 108

Glasgow Lecture Hall

JMPAC 120

Korach Gallery

B.48E 120

Old Gallery

B.49 240

Jury Room

B.49 340

Drawing Room

C

Courtyard

OTHER LOCATIONS MOORE BLDG

FINAL REVIEWS at the University of Miami UM SoA - 1223 Dickinson Drive, Coral Gables, FL 33146 at the Moore Building, Design District 3841 NE 2nd Ave #400, Miami, FL 33137

SAT. 16

WED. 20 ARC 306

ARC 102

9:00 am to 12:30 pm

JMPAC 108

JMPAC 120

FRI. 22 9:00 am to 12:30 pm

JMPAC 120

B.48E 120

B.49 240

B.49 340

ARC 306

ARC 204

2:00 pm to 6:00 pm

JMPAC 108

JMPAC 120

1:00 pm to 6:00 pm

JMPAC 120

B.48E 120

B.49 240

B.49 340

APRIL 16-26, 2016 MON. 25

at UMSoA

ARC 605

9:00 am to 12:30 pm

JMPAC 108

JMPAC 120

MON. 25

at the Moore Bldg.

TUE. 26

ARC 602/UPPER LEVEL

ARC 610 - THESIS

9:00 am to 12:30 pm

MOORE BLDG

9:00 am to 12:30 pm

MOORE BLDG

UPPER LEVEL

ARC 610 - THESIS

2:00 pm to 6:00 pm

MOORE BLDG

2:00 pm to 6:00 pm

MOORE BLDG

SATURDAY, APRIL 16 9:00 AM TO 6:00 PM

ARC 306

B. ARCH. - ARCHITECTURE DESIGN VI HANGTOWN FOOD MARKET Instructors: A. Montero, S. Fett, A. Krantz, E. Sarli, D. Trautman The Third Year Design Studio will explore concepts of constructability, materiality, modular construction, detail, use - limited building systems, and climatic response. The project expands into the adaptive reuse of the warehouse structure and the addition of a culinary school and food museum in Hangtown, Miami. This phase relies heavily on the student’s creative and critical thinking skills. Students research topics related to the design program and develop an understanding of the variables that affect design. Through iterations of these options the process is tested and refined, leading to a final product that lays the foundation of further development by establishing conceptual building systems including location and space requirements.

JMPAC 108

JMPAC 120

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20 9 AM TO 12:30 PM

ARC 102

B. ARCH. - ARCHITECTURE DESIGN II SOLARES HILL GARDEN & “LOGGIA” Instructors: F. Martinez, C. Canton, A. Cimring, C. de la Quadra-Salcedo, O. Machado The project focuses on designing a public garden and loggia on a plot of land which is at the end of the block that fronts William Street, Windsor Lane and Passover Lane. This new use and programmatic proposal seeks to provide the inhabitants of the Solares Hill neighborhood and the city a small place for leisure, play, meditation and congregation in a manner appropriate with Key West and its urban history. The site presents a challenging urban setting, as it is surrounded by a variety of building and programmatic conditions particular to Key West. Basic principles of architecture and city building, essential for the construction of a modern city, shall be explored.

Ultimately, the project program invites questions of how the relation of public and private uses might be defined and spatially related, both at the scale of the building and at the scale of the larger urban environment. Furthermore, we will address the question of how to develop a memorable and appropriate architectural character for a “loggia” specifically suited to Key West, a city with a rich cultural and architectural heritage. These investigations, together with the overlapping myths of the place, its culture, and its legacy of streets and buildings, should provide us with a profound and defining influence for the final configuration of the project.

JMPAC 120

B.48E 120

B.49 240

B.49 340

FRIDAY, APRIL 22 1:00 PM TO 6:00 PM

ARC 204

B. ARCH. - ARCHITECTURE DESIGN IV A FENCING ACADEMY FOR TROPICAL PARK Instructors: R. Ceo, A. Cure, R. John, V. Vasconez The semester is dedicated to exploring three materials: wood, concrete and steel. The site is situated in Tropical Park in a Pine-Rockland prairie. It introduces the students to thinking about design through construction and structure. This course, while introductory, is designed to give a better feel for materials and methods of construction and how design ideas affect structural integrity. The Miami-Dade County Parks and Recreation department, partnering with a private interest group, wants to build a fencing academy for the public in one of their largest district parks. The project is expected to be an exemplar of a new attitude about park architecture, which is both flexible and employs the latest green technologies, while creating a new design culture in the park.

JMPAC 120

B.48E 120

B.49 240

B.49 340

MONDAY, APRIL 25 9 AM TO 12:30 PM

ARC 602

UPPER LEVEL/ MUD THREE WISHES Instructors: J. Correa, V. Dover, J. Kohl, E. Plater-Zyberk An advanced urban design upper level studio represents one of the most critical moments in the education of a student. This studio is an opportunity to understand strengths and weaknesses, to acquire greater levels of knowledge, to develop a stronger critical attitude, to increase a repertoire of design skills, and to define a personal design-thinking posture regarding the relationship between architecture and the contemporary city. This is a three-tier studio that includes ULI Hines competition, a two week intense urban design competition entry, sea-level-rise intervention in North Miami, a North Miami Beach master plan charrette hosted by the City of Miami Beach, and new town main street in Lake Flores, a six week pre-development real estate research.

MOORE BLDG

MONDAY, APRIL 25 9 AM TO 12:30 PM

ARC 605

M.ARCH. BETWEEN THE COLLECTIVE AND THE INDIVIDUAL Instructor: T. Victoria The studio will study the influence of culture and geography on the production of architecture and the construction of the City. Two exercises will be issued. The first will pursue the documentation of architectural subjects together with cultural elements of folklore and geography in the form of a map with the purpose of defining the general characteristics of a site in downtown Miami. The exercise will concentrate on the compositional and formal relationship of buildings in downtown through the drawing of city views, a site map and pertinent narratives. In addition as a compliment to the study of the site in drawing form, a wood model of the site will be constructed. Documentation, from the Latin “documentum�, meaning lesson, will be an explicit description in drawing and model form of the particulars of the building site in downtown Miami and should offer the class an appropriate and substantial formal and cultural context for an architectural intervention. The second part of the studio is dedicated to the projection of a skyscraper, a relatively new building type in the history of architecture, yet thoroughly relevant to the construction of the city today. The initial exercise of the studio is a collective study, through drawing and model building, of the essential and fundamental characteristics, constructive and stylistic, of the architecture of downtown Miami and its region. The second exercise of the semester is an individual effort which provides an opportunity for engaging an architectural building d project, the skyscraper, in an extraordinary urban context.

JMPAC 120

MONDAY, APRIL 25 9 AM TO 12:30 PM

UPPER LEVEL

HABITACION MIRAFLORES A REFLECTION ABOUT GAP YEAR HOUSING Instructors: M. Clavel-Rojo, T. Riley In the professional world, a gap year is a pause in an academic career where a student engages in a “real-world” experience that informs and transforms their future. Habitación Miraflores will have four distinct residential types that reflect the needs of different types of tenants: a semester-long sea hostel, a road trippers hotel, environmentalists accommodations and a rainforest shelter. The site is the Miraflores Locks in the Panama Canal. More specifically, it is the narrow strip of land between the eastbound and westbound traffic. In a real way it is an emblem of transience, like the gap year itself.

MOORE BLDG

MONDAY, APRIL 25 9 AM TO 12:30 PM

UPPER LEVEL

LATIN AMERICAN DESIGN THE TROPICAL HOUSE: AN NEW MODEL FOR LA Instructors: J. Gelabert-Navia, D. Franqui The Tropical Sustainable Hospital will be a regenerative building process, functioning as a living laboratory to explore how the ways we construct and inhabit healthcare buildings can support a sustainable future. Its goals will be to accelerate wellness and sustainability in the region and beyond by contributing knowledge, practices, lessons and models that can be used by others in fostering sustainable design and healthcare design in the tropics. The program will be for a 150 bed hospital specifically designed to be built in various locations across the tropics, including Africa, the Caribbean and Central America. The course will examine issues of vernacular architecture; how midcentury modern architecture specifically addressed these issues successfully; and how architecture can enable Third World societies to address the health and welfare of their native populations. This is a comprehensive studio.

MOORE BLDG

MONDAY, APRIL 25 9 AM TO 12:30 PM

UPPER LEVEL

THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE STAGE

Instructor: J.Francois Lejeune From Roman times to the Renaissance to the Soviet Revolution and beyond, the theatrical space has been used to both represent reality and to reinvent conceptions of space and society. The first part of the studio explores the historical andncontemporary relationship between the theatrical and the architectural, through the design of a set for Oscar Golijov’s flamenco-based opera Ainadamar.

The second part will develop solutions for a professional theater on the University of Miami Coral Gables campus for us by the Theatre and Opera Departments. Issues of campus public space and use tropical architecture will complement the function of the theater as a “theatrical factory” for students, faculty and audiences.

MOORE BLDG

MONDAY, APRIL 25 2:00 PM TO 6:00 PM

UPPER LEVEL

NEW YORK CITY STUDIO WHITNEY MUSEUM TOWER Instructor: R. Behar This studio will undertake the invention of a new mid-rise tower for the Whitney Museum in New York City. The tower and ancillary structures will accommodate studios and residences for artists of the Whitney program, as well as lodging facilities for Museum patrons. The American Academy in Rome building program will serve as an example of additional program requirements for the building. The extraordinary visibility is unique, and the position of the site affords distinctive views of Manhattan’s skyline. The class investigates vertical buildings and the hotel typology in New York City and worldwide.

MOORE BLDG

MONDAY, APRIL 25 2:00 PM TO 6:00 PM

UPPER LEVEL

CULTURAL INFRASTRUCTURE FOR DOWNTOWN MIAMI

Instructors: C. Bohl, J. Brillhart, J. Onyango This sponsored, upper level design studio will focus on design possibilites for COMPACT (micro) housing in Miami - a typology currently not encouraged under Miami 21, but one that offers legitimate solutions to skyrocketing housing costs, changing demographics, and the need to densify our urban cores. Conceived as a “Superstudio,� this interdisciplinary course combines architecture, real estate development and environmental design. The goal is to create a meaningful design process that results not only in innovative architectural solutions and sustainable design strategies, but also market research and tangible data to challenge current zoning regulations.

MOORE BLDG

MONDAY, APRIL 25 2:00 PM TO 6:00 PM

UPPER LEVEL

HAVANA: PRESERVATION STUDIO THE CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES OF PRESERVING THE PAST Instructor: S. Chao This studio project will concentrate on the opportunities and challenges of designing a building within a historic fabric. Students will become aware of international canons and tools used to guide preservation initiatices and they will better understand how preservation catalyzes economic development, particularly in an impoverished country. The class will also learn about the Integral Management Model employed by the preservation Office of Havana (OHC) on interventions within the World Heritage Site. In its heyday, the Packard Hotel was one of several early twentieth century hotels built in Havana that primarily catered to North American tourists. It was the playground of celebrities and intellectuals alike, including Marlon Brando. Located at the crossroads of the waterfront Malecon Boulevard and the equally renowned Paseo del Prado, today, only two walls of the original Packard building precariously survive, yet plans are underway for a new Packard Hotel. This studio design project presents the challenge of reconciling those historic remnants with the introduction of a new multi-function building, centered on a five-star hotel, including the rehabilitation and repurposing of other significant historic buildings or remnants found within the block. This project will require students to become aware of and reference the local preservation form-based codes, and accordingly determine an appropriate program for their site. At a minimum, all proposals will integrate to the scale and general character of the historic buildings lining the Paseo del Prado. In preparation, students will also research local history, typologies and building traditions as well as international standards for hotel design.

MOORE BLDG

MONDAY, APRIL 25 2:00 PM TO 6:00 PM

UPPER LEVEL

CLASSICAL ARCHITECTURE STUDIO

Instructors: R. Levit (VC), V. Deupi, Y. Yactayo This studio will undertake an examination of links between gothic and classical languages of architecture and their generative capabilities for a contemporary idiom. This studio will explore the territory between ornament and structure that these two traditions offer, while recognizing that their categorical distinction is not watertight. The studio will analyze, through two and threedimensional drawings, Gothic and Classical works of architecture, and treat these as spring board for a contemporary proposition of design, set within the collegiate Gothic architecture of the University of Toronto’s historic campus. Students will be asked to design a vaulted enclosure and /or arcade within one of the existing college courtyards. This work will require the development of skills in digital craft and geometrical construction so that students can explore the interplay between ornamental articulations of vaulted forms.

MOORE BLDG

SATURDAY, APRIL 16 ARC 306 - 9 AM TO 6:00 PM JMPAC 120

Montero Kristine Dillon Ashley Galvankar Xinyu He Sasha Kayal Jessica Masangu Cynthia Pacheco Justin Tehrani Justin Vega Yuanxun Xia Yating Yang

JMPAC 120

Sarli Alia Abdulmalik Owen Berry Camille Cortes Daniela Déu Marissa Gudiel Frank Noska IV Christel Orbe Dorianne Paris Dutari Catalina Ruiz-Luzio Davin Stancil

at UMSoA

JMPAC 120

Krantz Shaikha Al-Duwaisan Michael Alexander Yeping Cao Catherine Crotty Colby Gallagher Kirstin Marshall Marcus Riley Jules Romier Samantha Schneider Corey Shapiro

JMPAC 120

Trautman Salma Alessa Andrew Dai Jessica Flores Asrar Jasem Victor Kalil Sydney Matsumoto Chloe Pereira Austin Rico Kaidi Wei

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20 ARC 102 - 9 AM TO 12:30 PM JMPAC 120

Martinez Bita Abadian Shuail Alshuail Maria Quintero Felipe Arias Mamais Sixue Chen Carolina Dias de Aguiar Paulino Elsa Hiraldo Emily Suarez Andrea Szapiro Lei Xu Julia Zollner

B.49 340

de la Quadra-Salcedo Amanda Arrizabalaga Laura Beltran Maan Ezmirly Regyne Heurtelou Beltran Lozano Martinez Claudia Silva Hannan Vilchis-Zubizarreta Jingyi Xu

JMPAC 120

Fett Avleigh Du Gabriel Fischler Randa Hadi Erin Hickey Hitomi Maeno Sarah Potter Andrew Schneider Zachary Silver Jingbo Sun Siyu Wang

at UMSoA

B.48E 120

Cimring Moises Abbo Mizrachi Ahmed Alanezi Siyu Deng Joshua Kleinberg Israel Martinez Sol Perchik Sheng Qian Ali Tanriyar Alessandra Turi Lyndsey Weeks

B.49 240

Machado Bernute Augustin Frances Gelbart Juan Guareschi Mujica Deborah Herington David Holmes Jiaqi Huang Sydney Maubert Julia Murdoch Shannar O’Connor James O’Keef

JMPAC 120

Canton Abdulazis Alghannam Saad Alhajri Youseef Alkhamees Jesse Alvarez Yasmine Benchekroun Michael Burke Daniella Cancel Kyle Ferry Fioriana Larche Rachael Liberman

FRIDAY, APRIL 22 ARC 204 - 1:00 PM TO 6:00 PM B.49 340

Ceo Feras Almadhi Edilberto Bittencourt Souza Nishi Bordia Sandra Camejo Yasemin Cetinalp Gabriella Feito Jason Mahadeo Nathan Morales-Gallardo Jose Mozza Vargas Alyssa Osborn Adam Vandeeper

JMPAC 120

Vasconez Jacob Gardner Chesney Henry Ashley Katz Juan Ochoa Echeverry Nan Li Adrianna Rivera Flavia Russo Dylan Starr Alexander Underwood Arnost Wallach Ashley Zambrano

MONDAY, APRIL 25 ARC 605 - 9 AM TO 12:30 PM JMPAC 120

Victoria Noor Al-Hazeem Emily Elkin Marina Engel Cauhy Bevilacqua Maha Halawani Gabriel Lopez Stephanie Messina Del Sordo Minhae Shim Yiqing Wang Jingchao Wu

at UMSoA

B.49 240

Cure Qiazi Chen Christopher Damico Kurt Gessler Nicolle Janek Olivia Kramer Mariana Pessoa de Oliveira Bernardo Rieveling Xiangyu Shao Caitlin Smith Robert Soldano Jorge Trelles

B.48E 120

John Catalina Chaves Andrew Clum Maxwell Erickson Wing Hui Lorena Knezevic Nicholas Meury Maria Ramos Rodriguez Jennifer Scott Michaela Senior Jaime Toro Irizarry Junyong Wu

at UMSoA

MONDAY, APRIL 25 UPPER LEVEL - 9 AM TO 12:30 PM MOORE BLDG

Francois Lejeune Abdulaziz Alenezi Carolyn Anderson Erron Estrado Donnie Garcia-Navarro Maura Gergerich Rhys Gilbertson Reem Najjar Megan Pimentel Matthew Smith Corey Weiss

MOORE BLDG

Gelabert-Navia/ Franqui Rossana Auad Sophia Cain Krizia Dos Santos Mengru Jing Nika Mirrafie Shenting Wang Boya Zhang Yihan Zhao

at the Design District

MOORE BLDG

Plater-Zyberk/ Correa/ Dover & Kohl Alia Abdulmalik Quincy Ikler Gregory Lafaire Christian Lemon Timothy Nash Jonathan Russo Bruna Bacchi (MUD) Bixuan Meng (MUD) Claire Eleise Morris (MUD) Tingting Pan (MUD) Zachary James Robinson (MUD) Shuzheng Wu (MUD)

MONDAY, APRIL 25 UPPER LEVEL - 2:00 PM TO 6:00 PM MOORE BLDG

Behar Shahad Abdullah Basmah Alohaly Luis Aragones Ortigosa Alexandra Babowice Cooper Copetas George Cortisidis Cristina Cusco Pomenta Sloan Elsesser Danyah Jamalalleil Antoine Laduron Connor Stuhrcke Katja Kuznik Joselyn Ojeda Valentin Secq Jaime Segovia

MOORE BLDG

Brilllhart/ Onyango/ Bohl Abhirajika Jeffrey Adler Alberto Alfaro Yi Chiou Irene Balza Pineda Stefani Fachini De Araujo Andrea Garcia Nora Gharib Carlo Magno Cruz Andrew Richler Melodie Sanchez Jie Su Shihui Wang

MOORE BLDG

Riley/ Clavel-Rojo Shouq Alhamad Samantha Diaz Sophie Doughty Brendan Fagan Marisa Hartfield Yotung Jiang Yang Liao Natalie Loventhal Benjamin Oberstein Alexandra Tuduce Haoyu Wang Samuel Wyner

at the Design District

MOORE BLDG

Chao Hannah Breedlove Nikita Chabra Gerardo Delgadillo John Gonzalez Adriana MacKliff Ariana Melendez Djoumblat Madeleine Merck Hurtarte Natalie Paulino Michael Riebesell Lacey Stansell Jessica Stefanick Danielle Todd Mary Wissinger

MOORE BLDG

Levit/ Deupi/ Yactayo Taylor Brophy Junjie Bu Anthony Cataldo Lok Chan Fadak Dashti Joshua Durkee Daniel Jones Jiayi Li Tyler Many Zengjunyun Qiao Yin Xu

ARC 610

M.ARCH. THESIS

MOORE BLDG

Instructors: E. Plater-Zyberk, A. Cure, A. Shulman, E. Firley, J. Onyango, JM. de Churtichaga The Architectural Thesis or Master’s Project is a design project conceived, developed, and defended independently by the individual student, that aims to be an original contribution to the field of architecture. The thesis is a two-semester, 9-credit process that includes a seminar and a design studio led by one or two faculty members. The Thesis must be approved by the ad-hoc faculty in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the Master of Architecture Degree (3-year or 2-year).

TUESDAY, APRIL 26 9:00 AM TO 6:00 PM

ARC 610 ZACHARY ANDERSON From Cleveland, Ohio USA Bachelor of Science in Architecture, Kent State University “The Locavore Project” The Locavore Project is an architectural exploration integrating urban farming with cultural education as a catalyst for future sustainable growth in Goose Island, Chicago. The design concept for highlighting the sustainable technology of urban farming and social aspect of education is transparency. The intent is for the building’s components and systems to be evident and highlighted throughout the design. Transparency is achieved by creating social spaces outside and within the project to promote human interaction. The parti of the design is composed of two education wings and a vertical farm structure wedged between the two buildings. Also, social spaces are designed to connect the occupant with the innovative farming typology. The Locavore Project explores the potential of feeding the world one urban farm at a time.

ERIK BROBERG From Palm Beach, Florida USA Bachelor of American Studies, University of Miami “Just as airports have shaped the twentieth century, spaceports are poised to shape the 21st” Is it possible to effectively design for an unwritten and highly-speculated future without over-estimating technology? Due to the recent commercialization of space, private corporations are leading a new space race rooted in both monetary and scientific impetuses. As a result, the old spaceport model separating user and industry has been rendered inert in favor of a new, combined paradigm. Incidentally, contemporary civilization is moving towards a phase where knowledge is no longer private. This model defines the ‘Meteor Crater Spaceport and Research Facility’.

BITING CHEN From Shanghai, China Bachelor of Architecture, Harbin Institute of Technology Lilong was formed in late 19th c., when thousands of immigrants swarmed into Shanghai, putting a strain on housing stock and commercial stock. The movers and shakers regarded the city’s commercial frontage as one of the most valuable resources and did not want immigrants to take over this frontage for residential use. The planners and architects therefore proposed a design solution of the superblock with a perimeter belt of commercial and housing. The aim of this project is to redevelop Lilong by breaking up the superblock, increasing density, and adding public space while still keeping the social character intact.

CHEN CHEN From Datong, China Bachelors of Architectural Engineering, Taiyuan University of Technology “Miami Mountopia: A Tropical Ride to the Top of Miami” Based on the natural environment, economical condition and lifestyle in Downtown Miami, this project focuses on how to tropically solve the isolation between urban realm and architectural space. Various transit systems and interactive spaces are used to unite the city and the building. It will not only be a vibrant commading point in Downtown Miami, but also give more possibilites to a new lifestyle.

YANBIN CHEN From Beijing, China Bachelor of Architecture, Sanjiang University “The connection between landscape and architecture – Landform Buildings” Architecture, by its nature, transforms the landscape geologically and biologically. There is an ongoing exploitation of landscape in which mountains are being ruthlessly excavated to provide materials for the building industry. With the inordinate carving of a huge section of a landscape, we are causing disruption and discontinuity in nature, which is shaping problematic gaps in the natural flow of an ecological system. The methodology for the thesis is to first understand different structural systems suitable for a topographic site since the site has an elevation difference of 300 feet due to quarrying.

By understanding how to create landform buildings, the main purpose of the thesis is to develop design technique to examine the ways that a torn landscape could recuperate.

YUYANG CHEN From China Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture Sea level rise is a global problem. Miami is in danger. Miami will be the most at risk metropolis in the U.S. The obvious evidence shows that the sea level will rise in the next few years in Miami. The two risks for sea level rise in Miami are the sunny day flooding and storm surge. I choose 3 sections on each side of Brickell Key, considering the two risks with 3’ and 6’ rising sea level. My goal is to find solutions to mitigate the sea level rise issue and develop the ability to make effective contributions to urban design problems, which can help guide the communities on a sustainable path to living with water.

ANDREA DELGADO From Los Angeles, California USA Bachelor of Art History, California State University Northridge “Continuous Care: Re-designing Healthcare” As chronic diseases are the top causes of death in the United States, we are in search for means of prevention. Chronic diseases like heart disease, asthma, depression, and obesity are known as lifestyle-related diseases and can be prevented through the re-design of our cities. To keep people out of hospitals, my thesis proposes a model for a health community.

Since Doral, Florida, is gaining a lot of interest and investment, I believe it would be an appropriate prototype for other existing or future cities to follow. By designing a city focused on physical and mental wellbeing, a suitable habitat for human beings can be realized.

DIVYA GOSAIN From Hyderabad, India Bachelor of Architecture, Aayojan School of Architecture “Salud! Getaway - take a ‘health-cation’ with us” Salud! Getaway is a cosmetic surgery clinic located within the Miami International Airport. The clinic is designed to serve the growing niche market of medical tourists who travel to Miami for the sole purpose of state-of-the-art, high-quality cosmetic surgery. According to the Medical Tourism Association, every year, approximately six million ‘medical tourists’ travel internationally and spend $7,500 to $15,800 per trip. This project’s primary aim is to streamline the process of obtaining medical assistance for Miami’s inbound medical tourists, while also providing urgent care to passengers who fall sick during travel. Incorporating this facility within an airport eliminates the hassles of navigating a new city, saves time and ensures a more pleasant experience for the clients.

JUNYA HUANG From Shenyang, Liaoning, China Bachelor of Architecture, Dalian University of Technology “Exploring the city’s maritime expansion” The growth of the economy in Dalian requires ambitious industrial port expansion projects, which need a large number of employees to support the development and new urban area for the increasing population. However, the land shortage prevents the transportation industry from thriving. I am working with the possibility of expanding the land into the sea.

KATHRYNE KNIGHT From Birmingham, AL USA Bachelor of Architecture, Georgia Institute of Technology “Sustainable Suburbia: Is It a Reality or Just an American Dream?”

The current form of the American suburb, which can be seen sprawling throughout the United States, began as a product of the post-World War II economic and housing booms. Through its 70 year history, its development pattern and form remains virtually unchanged in spite of the major economic, environmental, and social problems that we now know are associated with it. Over time, the suburban form has adopted a development pattern that is often completely removed from the urban built environment and its associated transportation networks and inserted into the natural environment, without much regard for achieving a balance with its natural surroundings. Instead of supporting the continuous intrusion of the built environment into the natural environment, a balance between the two should be pursued. Achieving this balance will help to generate a new reality for the suburban built environment: the Sustainable Suburb.

ANA LUIZA LEITE From Anhui Province, China BA in Economics and BS in Media & Communications from New York University “Liquid City Lighting Concept: Re-Imagining Public Lighting in Miami” Increasing research into nighttime illumination has shown that the way we light our cities is not purely benign. Ever-increasing levels of light, along with poorly designed fixtures and dated technology, all point to public lighting schemes that are costly, unimaginative, harmful to health and ecosystems, and which contribute to the loss of the starry night sky. The Liquid City Lighting Concept looks at new ways to illuminate Miami at night that reject the current engineering logic in favor of a more adaptable, connected, sensitive, and poetic lighting strategy.

STEPHANIE TARUD ESPER From Barranquilla, Colombia Bachelor of Architecture, Universidad Autónoma del Caribe “Muto Garage: A Transformable Urban Type” American automobile culture and increased overall demands for parking in urban areas led to implementing urban parking as a common practice. However, more and more parking solutions are designed only for parking purposes without anticipating the future developments. Beyond this, there is a lack of envisioning of the prospective repurpose use of the parking garage for mixeduse function building. With four problems remain: neglected spaces, increase of a heat island effect, scarcity of financial incentives, and lack of envisioning the future of the garage design. These problems provoke inquiries into re-thinking the urban parking into a transformable urban type: How do we create a building that today serves as a garage and in the future can be converted into other uses? How to invest wisely in structure building that can be used for all functions in one design such as parking, commercial, residential, and offices? How do we transform the urban parking into people-friendly urban spaces? How do we mitigate the negative impacts on the environment? Yet, the parking garage can also be a seed, a first and essay in the redevelopment of urban district.

CAMILO TIRADO From Bogota, Colombia Bachelors in Design of Architecture, University of Central Florida “Transitional City” The Transitional City comes from the understanding that by the year 2030 three billion people will be living in informality, with a vast majority lacking access to water and electricity. Given that the invention of the aqueduct happened over 2000 years ago, it is safe to say that Architecture has failed humanity. The Transitional City aims not to solve informality, but to mediate it, as it is commonly understood that the relocation and reaccommodation of such massive amount of people it is not feasible. The Transitional City is a two-part module that aims to better integrate the informal citizen into the formal city via infrastructural developments (fabric) and architectural interventions (objects). Bogota, Colombia was chosen as the testsite for the module due to the city’s own recognition of informal growth as a problem and the immediate need to rethink urban expansion; the city is looking to accommodate 3.6 million new citizens in the next 40 years.

ERIKKA VINCI From Wellington, Florida USA BA in Architectural Engineering, University of Miami “Reviving a Legacy: Extending the Use of the Old Federal Courthouse” The federal courthouse symbolizes the government within each district, addressing the urban plan as the heart or core of the county. The conflict between preservation of a building and its function develops once the function is no longer needed.

What happens when the function is needed, but the building is no longer adequate? It quickly becomes apparent that old federal courthouses no longer meet newer security standards, but if the building does not function, then the building will not survive. The David W. Dyer Courthouse has been vacant since it was abandoned in 2008, when the courthouse relocated into the new Wilkie D. Ferguson, Jr. U.S. Courthouse. The four story courthouse, including the basement, has remained vacant due to not meeting judicial security standards, connection with the C. Clyde Atkins U.S. Courthouse, and for low building care causing mold throughout the structure. Disposing the building to become a hotel and military holdings facility including transient housing and counselling for veterans to reintegrate into society in an urban setting.

BEN XIE From Shaoxing, China Bachelor of Architecture, Zhejiang University City College “Transform ‘border’ space into intermediary space” It always has been “in between” space, for some reasons , that becomes low-efficiency space in the way it is used. What I am trying to do is to find a methodology to activate these space with social intervention.

YASMINE ZEGHAR From Madrid, Spain Bachelor of Architecture, Camilo José Cela University in Madrid “Sustainable Happiness” Marvelous architecture is constructed fictitiously from the adventures of an orphan girl, Dorothy Gale, in L. Frank Baum´s ‘The Wonderful Wizard of Oz’ story book. This proposal is a thought experiment that enables the experience of potential happiness to be explored beyond the specific limitations suffered by humans. The raw material of what humans really want and need is questioned by this project due to the design of emotion and happiness. This project uses methods of application of emotional knowledge rather, as main idea, than applying of technical knowledge to design. Therefore, sustaining infrastructure design is proposed for an emotional state in this “Happiness Architecture.”

HAOCHI ZHANG From China Bachelor of Architecture, Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture “Parametric Tropical Houses” My thesis is creating a tropical house by inputting the needs of the owner and creating the house automatically. Since it is a tropical building, it will have the feature, that can keep harmony with the hot and humid climate. Also, since it will be generated automatically, it will be controlled by parameters that form context information, climate information and needs from the owner.

YANJUN ZHAO “Nursing Home for the Elderly People Who Have Lost Their Only Child” China’s one child policy was introduced in 1979 to keep the population down from 1971 onwards. According to the survy on living conditions of the families lost their only child 2009, there are approximately 15 million families are or will be suffering the pain of losing their only child. There is a increase of 76,000 families each year, who not only lost their only child, but are also past their child-bearing years. Along with the changing of their social roles, the loss of the beloved child causes those elderly people to suffer the worst pain. They are in despair, angry and anxious. My project will try to solve this problem and give those people a place to spend their remaining years in comfort. The project will be a non-profit and job opportunities will be provided inside the project.

SHILUN ZHOU From China North China University Technology “Natural Ventilation in House” The city of Miami has already realized the energy problem in Miami and published the Cool Counties GHG in 2010, and promised that the energy cost will reduce 2% for each year, and it could reduce half of energy cost by 2050. Improving natural ventilation and make use of sunlight is the best way to decrease the energy cost in Miami. The research will be based on the two- story house, a duplex located at 3750 W. Flagler Street in Miami. The house uses different methods of ventilation to reduce temperature and humidity, in order to create a house which could provide comfortable space without air conditioning year-round. The house uses different method of ventilation to reduce the temperature and humidity. In order to creates a house which could provide comfortable space without air conditioning in the whole year.

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