Arch 562 Design Studio Faculty: Kathy Velikov
University of Michigan Taubman College
of Architecture + Urban Planning
Introduction
2020 Studio
Gibson Davis + Brian Pekar
Liyah George, Torri Smith, Hallee Thompson
Claire Shue + Danrui Xiang
Nick DiDonato + Alan Escareño
Cynthia Castro + Adrian DiCorato
Christine Darragh + Siamak Saadati
Chun Cheung + Thomas McCormick
Xixi Chen + Mollie Karasch
Xingyue Sun + Wanrongmaiao Zhang
Jiayao Chen + Yanfeng Chen
Meredith Bickett + Audrey Hunt
2021 Studio
Jasmine Wright + Gina Laudato
Fernando Rosas + Madison Wong
Austin Vogelsang
Jutang Gao
Ray Majewski
Alex Vernon
Zoë Faylor
Dan Shen
Kayla Hawley
Akima Brackeen
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Alex Vernon
Planar Capital
Will we adequately prepare for climate change, or decidedly have to react to it?
After sea levels rise nearly 50’ in coastal cities, amphibious. pseudo-venetian lifestyles become the new normal, particularly in New York City. Public spaces no longer operate in the same way, if they exist at all. Places like parks, cafes, subways, sidewalks, all staples of urban life, become moot. Planar surfaces, then, become sources of capital. Buildings built into bedrock become co-ops that serve only those who can afford to live there. Refugees from areas like Chelsea are forced to migrate inland or suffer the risk of their buildings crumbling into the tides. Each co-op operates with a degree of exclusivity and isolation.Technologies like lightweight carbon fiber bridges and diamond waterproofing adhesives exist, but simply act as a bandaid to the bigger problem of establishing public space and maintaining vibrant social life.
The “Micro Co-op, Macro Cooperation” project brings these co-ops together by way of capitalizing on the interstitial spaces between the buildings allowing a pooling of resources while also reimagining how the new urbanscape of New York might operate under aquatic conditions. Neo-activities like boating, floating, and hanging in nets replace parks and co-ops specialize as production facilities.
This project explores the interstitial spaces lost after the flooding of New York through a series of metabolic apparatuses that graft old urban infrastructure into new social fabrics. Through asset-tagging, the co-ops can reprogram existing infrastructure in the city to adapt to their growing needs. Objects that were once used for preservation like window washers or scaffolding become new housing opportunities. Netting and barges act as social networks for public space and concerts.
This project explores the interstitial spaces lost after the flooding of New York through a series of metabolic apparatuses that graft old urban infrastructure into new social fabrics. Through asset-tagging, the co-ops can reprogram existing infrastructure in the city to adapt to their growing needs. Objects that were once used for preservation like window washers or scaffolding become new housing opportunities. Netting and barges act as social networks for public space and concerts.
Circular economies arise from the advent of new communal spaces, neo-activities emerge by way of a new urban layout, and extreme impacts of climate change become a new (if inconvenient) normal rather than a solvable problem.
Planar Capital
Will we adequately prepare for climate change, or decidedly have to react to it?
After sea levels rise nearly 50’ in coastal cities, amphibious. pseudo-venetian lifestyles become the new normal, particularly in New York City. Public spaces no longer operate in the same way, if they exist at all. Places like parks, cafes, subways, sidewalks, all staples of urban life, become moot. Planar surfaces, then, become sources of capital. Buildings built into bedrock become co-ops that serve only those who can afford to live there. Refugees from areas like Chelsea are forced to migrate inland or suffer the risk of their buildings crumbling into the tides. Each co-op operates with a degree of exclusivity and isolation.Technologies like lightweight carbon fiber bridges and diamond waterproofing adhesives exist, but simply act as a bandaid to the bigger problem of establishing public space and maintaining vibrant social life.
The “Micro Co-op, Macro Cooperation” project brings these co-ops together by way of capitalizing on the interstitial spaces between the buildings allowing a pooling of resources while also reimagining how the new urbanscape of New York might operate under aquatic conditions. Neo-activities like boating, floating, and hanging in nets replace parks and co-ops specialize as production facilities.
This project explores the interstitial spaces lost after the flooding of New York through a series of metabolic apparatuses that graft old urban infrastructure into new social fabrics. Through asset-tagging, the co-ops can reprogram existing infrastructure in the city to adapt to their growing needs. Objects that were once used for preservation like window washers or scaffolding become new housing opportunities. Netting and barges act as social networks for public space and concerts.
This project explores the interstitial spaces lost after the flooding of New York through a series of metabolic apparatuses that graft old urban infrastructure into new social fabrics. Through asset-tagging, the co-ops can reprogram existing infrastructure in the city to adapt to their growing needs. Objects that were once used for preservation like window washers or scaffolding become new housing opportunities. Netting and barges act as social networks for public space and concerts.
Circular economies arise from the advent of new communal spaces, neo-activities emerge by way of a new urban layout, and extreme impacts of climate change become a new (if inconvenient) normal rather than a solvable problem.
