City Form Lab’s Grid Structures
The City Form Lab’s research on grid structures has developed a novel building technology…
Projects
One La Défense
Defining the historic axis that continues beyond the Grand Arche de La Défense in Nanterre, France,…
La Folie Divine
La Folie Divine is the first of the twelve follies to be built on brownfield…
NoBe Nexo—Recipient of the 2017 Plimpton-Poorvu Design Prize
by Lisa Hollywood (MAUD ’17), Chris Merritt (MLA ’17), Patricia Alvarez (MDes REBE ’18) and Lindsay…
Flamingo Waterpark
by Izgi Uygur (MLA ’18) In subtropical climates such as Florida’s, there is either too much…
Miami Beach Baywalk
by Chris Merritt (MLA ’17) The Miami Beach Baywalk will serve as an infrastructure for storm…
Ocean Court
by Daniel Widis (MLA ’16) Tenuously positioned as an informal slip of sand and coral…
Mobilizing Habitations: Re-Imagining Nomadic Architecture in the Sub-Saharan Sahel Region
by Aman Singhvi (MDes ’16) As land is increasingly commoditized with an upsurge in population,…
In Search of Authenticity: A Case Study of San Francisco Chinatown
by Yunjie Li (MDes ’16) A city or neighborhood is attractive because of its unique…
Pneuma(tic) Bodies
Installation-Performance, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts (CCVA), Cambridge, MA, 2016 Pneuma(tic) Bodies…
Representing Mimi Sheller’s “Aluminum Dreams”
by Erin Ota (MDes/MArch ’17) Animation representing Aluminum Dreams: The Making of Light Modernity by Mimi…
Representing Force: Lebbeus Woods and the Havana Projects
by Eliyahu Keller (MDes ’16) “I don’t care very much about building buildings. I care about…
Computational Craft: Construction of Carbon-fiber Composites
by Tiffany Cheng (MDes ’16) How can new technologies enable carbon fiber to be pushed…
Phyto Garden
A New Paradise-Renewal of Damaged and Polluted City Land with the Power and Work of…
Projectors, Experiments in Image Tectonics
by Zeina Koreitem (MDes Tech ’16) — Recipient of the Daniel L. Schodek Award for Technology…
On Adapting
by Caio Barboza (MArch ’16) and Sofia Blanco Santos (MArch ’16) — Recipient of the James Templeton…
Un-Greening Golden Gate Park
by Josselyn Ivanov (MDes ’16) — Recipient of the 2016 Thesis Prize, awarded by the faculty of…
Heterotic Architecture: Stacks, Chimneys & Chutes
by Joshua Feldman (MArch ’16) — Recipient of the 2016 James Templeton Kelly Prize The…
Te Vas o Te Quedas? Variations in the Explanations for Housing Abandonment in Tijuana, México
by Francisco Lara-García (MUP ’16) — Recipient of the 2016 Thesis Prize, awarded by the faculty of the Department…
Towards Sentience: Attuning the Los Angeles River’s Fluvial Morphology
by Leif Estrada (MLA/MDes ’16) — Recipient of the 2016 Thesis Prize This thesis incorporates the…
OBJECTHOOD — Recipient of the 2016 Clifford Wong Prize in Housing Design
by Liang Wang (MAUD ’17) and Lu Zhang (MAUD ’17) — Recipient of the 2016 Clifford Wong Prize…
CITY HALLucination: The Arching Attitudes of City Halls from Surface to Type
by Trax Yinan Wang (MAUD ’16) — Recipient of the 2016 Thesis Prize This thesis aims to…
From Terroir to Territory: Vineyard Public Space
by Alexander Cassini (MLA I ’16) The French concept of terroir claims that characteristics of place…
KAWAII-KOWAI Amplifying the Affective Loop
by Erin Cuevas (MArch II ’16) The proposal in Tokyo addresses the duality between Kawaii…
The Littleton Trials
by David Kennedy (MDes ’16), Jacob Mans (MDes ’16), and Benjamin Peek (MDes ’16)—Recipient of the…
Wildland-Urban Interfaces: Attitudes and Altitudes
by Oliver Curtis (MDes ’17) This project explores the wildland-urban interface, “wilderburbs,” the growing borderland…
Hyperbolic Cosines: Recasting Form Finding to Induce Ventilation Performance
We explored the allometric potential of a funicular catenary form to both modulate interior climatic…
Living and Working in Phytoremediating Brownfield Sites, Creating Healthier Environments than Is the Norm in Urban Conditions
by Jane Philbrick (MDes CC ’16) Phytoremediation, a remedial technique using living plant…
Show/Flow
by Andrew Keating (MArch ’17 ) and Scott Smith (MArch ’17 ) This project hybridizes…
The State of the Nation’s Housing 2016
The national housing market has now regained enough momentum to provide an engine of growth…
A Slight yet Reliable Breeze
by Aaron Mendonca (MDes ’17), Sarah Kantrowitz (MArch ’17), and Jerónimo van Schendel Erice (MArch…
Root
by Adria Boynton (MDes ’16) The city of Miami Beach experiences frequent flooding events due…
The Arsenal of Exclusion & Inclusion
Who gets to be where? The Arsenal of Exclusion & Inclusion examines the policies, practices,…
Franklin Park, Urban Forest
by Diana Jih (MLA ’18) Detail Model Detail plan Overall model…
Power and Place: Seattle
by Arthur Leung (MDes ’17), Boya Guo (MDes ’17), Hao Ding (MDes ’17), Mina Kim…
Coupling Thermal Mass & Buoyancy for Thermoregulation and Ventilation in India
by Palak Gadodia (MDes ’16) This thesis explores how the form and mass of a…
Archiverse
by Jacob Hamman (MDes Tech ’16) Archiverse is a new digital design platform for architectural and…
Charleston: Curating Exclusion
by Javier Ors-Ausin (MDes CC ’17), Dana McKinney (MArch/MUP ’17), Megan Mahala Echols (MUP ’16),…
Abductive Architecture
by Alexander Timmer (MArch ’16) Inference or logical reasoning in the design, representation, and dissemination…
Jakarta’s Orogeny: Inhabiting Java’s Volcanic
by Pedro Aparicio Llorente (MDes ULE ’16), recipient of the Gerald M. McCue Medal, and Namik…