Building on Bobst: A New Interior
by Isaac Pollan (MArch I ’22) Philip Johnson’s Elmer Holmes Bobst Library has been a…
Projects
The Eternal Simulation Project
by William Smith (MArch II ’20) The Eternal Simulation Project is a model: a model…
Hidden Landscape
by Xijia Zhang (MLA I AP ’20) In the small country of Switzerland, landscape is…
Jump Cut
by Min Sung Kim (MArch I ’23) This project creates a continuity between the two…
“downlifting”
by Erik Fichter (MArch I AP ’22) “downlifting” addresses urban densification, instantiating the relationship between…
(e)motion library
by Nashra Balagamwala (MDes ADPD ’21) and Mengfei Wang (MDes ADPD ’20) People worldwide currently…
Dynasty
by Yaxuan Liu (MArch I ’21) Over the past decade, the revival of…
(Slum)scapes of adaptation Weak Grounds, Risk Ecologies, Community Initiatives
by Eduardo Pelaez (MDes ULE ’19) Rapid population growth, rural-urban migration, and the occupation of…
2020 Plimpton-Poorvu Design Prize, First Prize: Building Biras
By MacKenzie Wasson (MArch I ’20) — Recipient of the 2020 Plimpton-Poorvu Design Prize,…
2020 Plimpton-Poorvu Design Prize, Second Prize: El Mercado Modelo de Miami
By Tessa Crespo (MDes Risk & Resilience ’20) and Stefan Bird (MIT MSRED ’20) —…
2020 Plimpton-Poorvu Design Prize, Honorable Mention: Oasi Plaza
By Zehui Gong (MAUD ’20), Jing Hai (MAUD ’20), Daisha Martin (MUP ’20), and Sidharth…
Re-fragmentation
By Thomas Huang (MArch I ’23) This spatial exercise renders a perfectly centralized space as…
Terra Fluxus
By Shizheng Geng (MAUD ’21) and Youngju Kim (MAUD ’21) Our project, ‘Terra Fluxus,’ aims…
Ecological Machines
By Simon Escabi Santos (MLA 1 AP ’20) The city of Santiago, Chile, is located…
Running the Course: Unifying Franklin Park One Step at a Time
by Lucy Humphreys (MLA ’22) Franklin Park, the Eastern-most park of Olmstead’s Emerald Necklace, exists…
Peanut Farm Casino and Resort
By Jonathan Lee (March II ’20) Greetings. Sit back, lay-down, stand up, kneel, curl into…
The Island of Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
by Anna Goga (March II ’20) This project is located in-between the Diomede Islands, precisely…
LOW-ENERGY | HIGH-RISE
by David Ling (MArch ’20) — Recipient of second prize in the…
Afterlives of Orbital Infrastructures: From the Earth’s High Orbits to its High Seas
by Rajji Sanjay Desai (MDes ULE ’19) “We live in an age in which extremely…
Inveterate Scars: Confederate Monument Removal in the New South
by Ann Hunter Lynch (MLA ’19) The removal of Confederate monuments as it is carried…
At The Dinner Table — Green to Orange: Building Ireland’s food security and identity
By Jiyun Jeong (MLA ’19) Food reveals the culture and identity of the place. What…
Creating Higher Ground in Boston’s Seaport
By Amelia Muller (MUP ’20) In September 2018, the City of Boston published estimates…
Nourishing Captiva
by Naoko Asno, Anna Curtis-Heald, Jenjira Holmes, Phia Sennett (all MLA ’19) On March 5,…
The New Generic
by Daniel Garcia (MArch II ’20) In, The Generic City, Rem Koolhaas asks us…
Surface of Confluence, An Infrastructural Museum on the National Mall
by Zi Meng (MArch I AP ’21) This project intends to synthetize multiple architectural interests…
Vegetation Orientation: Franklin Park’s Way
by Chelsea Dombroskie (MLA I ’21) Franklin Park is challenging to navigate. Vegetation Orientation…
MEMORY of the CORS (center for ornithological research and sanatorium) in Nahant Beach
by Hee Young Pyun (MArch II ’20) For the studio, each student had…
Far Niente
by Alexandros Spentzaris (March II ’19) Can we think of another, smaller scale of housing?…
Model As Building, Building As Model II
by Adrian Wong (MArch II ’20) The interest of this project lies between living and…
Hea-R-Us
by Tatum Lau (MAUD ‘19), Xin Wen (MAUD ‘20), and Cindy Xiao (MAUD ‘20) The…
The Labyrinthic Block
by Marc Dessauvage (MArch I ’21) and Sarah Cheung (MArch I ’21) This housing project is schizophrenic…
Change the Street, Transform the City
by Yuzhou ‘Andrew’ Peng (MAUD ’19), Solomon Green-Eames (MUP ’19) The existing model of Transit Oriented…
Right to Grow: A Manifesto
by Kira Clingen (MLA I, MDes RR ’21), Carson Fisk-Vittori (MLA I ’20), Shira Grosman…
Bed Rooms
by Qin Ye Chen (MArch I ’22) In Bed Rooms, five modes of activation…
Mycelium Stool
by Luke Warren (MArch ’22), Aditi Agarwal (MDes ’20), Hangsoo Jeong (MArch ’22), Victoria…
Material Innovation in Precast Concrete
by Estelle Yoon (MArch I ’20) The project proposes a design innovation in the fabrication process…
Emptiful: Changing the paradigm in a post-oil landscape
by Aiysha Alsane (MLA I AP ’19) Through common language, we describe the desert as…
A SELF-INTERSECTED WRAP AROUND COIL
by Mingxuan Qin (MAUD ‘20), Jichao Sun (MAUD ‘20) and Jiayi Wang (MAUD ‘20) This project…
The Tropical Arboretum of Vegetal Dwelling: Fabled Treehouse Phylogenies
by Joshua Stevens (MLA ’19) The institution of the arboretum emerged from a tradition of using…
Smart Toilet Paper
by Anesta Iwan (MDE ’19) — Recipient of the Outstanding Design Engineering Project Award…