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"Well House Renaissance: Urban Heat & Community Climate Nodes" by Danwei Pan, Kuan-I Wu, Tian Hao, and Zixuan Zhang @zixuanzhannng completed during the Urban Design Studio III "Water Urbanism: The Great Rift Valley.”⁣ ⁣ This project combines ancient technologies with the Tel Aviv-Yafo well house network to create a cooling ventilation system that addresses urban heat.⁣ ⁣ The Spring 2020 Urban Design Studio III was coordinated by Kate Orff with Lee Altman @altmanx, Adriana Chavez @adrichavezs, Dilip da Cunha, Fitsum Gelaye, Geeta Mehta, Thad Pawlowski @ethaddeus, and Julia Watson.⁣⁣ ⁣

Details of a super tall building by Yuxin Hu @yuxinnnnnnnnnnnn completed during the Super Tall course led by Nicole Dosso.⁣ ⁣ The class follows an analytical approach by dissecting individual Super Tall building components and their interrelationships to each other to build a comprehensive understanding of how these buildings behave using New York City as a laboratory. Student teams are assigned one of the following categories: vertical circulation, enclosure and building maintenance; super structure; building services including mechanical, electrical, and plumbing; fire and life safety; and construction logistics. Each team develops a series of three‐dimensional infographics that visually represent the categorical fundamental building blocks of the Super‐Tall.⁣ ⁣ Super Tall is offered as part of the Building Science & Technology Sequence at Columbia GSAPP.

"The proposal introduces a new elastic giant to carve out the existing building and merge with the left-over part to become a new school. The elasticity is represented in both material usage and spatial quality. A gradient of spaces from normative to elastic/regulated to autonomous is embraced."⁣ ⁣ "Elastic Giant" by Hao Zhong @haozhoong completed during the "Tending: Intertwined Impact" studio led by Karla Rothstein @studiorothstein @latentproductions.⁣ ⁣ This studio designs social infrastructures that are resilient to the unstable and unpredictable contexts of our time. ⁣ ⁣ ⁣ @gsappdeathlab

"Feed" by Yoonwon Kang @yooonwk completed during the "Something of Value" Advanced VI Architecture Studio led by Galia Solomonoff @solomonoffarchitecture.⁣ ⁣ For this studio, each student designed a project for a fictional client, who is in charge of a company headquartered in London. The company owns millions of square feet of real estate around the world, the majority of which is commercial office space. With commercial office space currently shifting towards sharing types, the client wishes to experiment with new hybrids that combine work, art, commerce, and education. The project is to design a building as a “gift”, something of value, for the city of London, which would give the company additional development rights in return.⁣ ⁣

Research by Kate Galbo @kate_galbo, Ri Le @riledigital, and Rawnak Zaman on post-wildfire restructuring in exurban San Diego.⁣ ⁣ This project asks: Did recovery after the 2007 San Diego County Firestorm create new spatial compositions of development and social structures? As climate change causes wildfires to increase in frequency and severity, building and community patterns become a critical policy concern. This study identified that new building permits collocated with the Wildland Urban Interface (WUI), which is expanding toward the perimeters of the 2007 San Diego County Firestorm-one of the most destructive wildfire seasons in San Diego history.⁣ ⁣ Completed during the Advanced GIS course led by Anthony Vanky.⁣ ⁣ @columbia_urbanplanning

@arthurross_archgallery ⁣ ⁣ Follow the Arthur Ross Architecture Gallery's new Instagram account for more updates and visit link in profile to view the Gallery’s online program.⁣ .⁣ ⁣ Today, the Arthur Ross Architecture Gallery @columbiagsapp launches the first chapter of the online program “A Wildness Distant”! Featuring films 🎥 by contemporary artists and new essays ✍️, it explores landscape as a site of political imagination.⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ Now screening, from October 5–18: “we are opposite like that” (2019) by Himali Singh Soin @himalisinghsoin, with an essay, “For the Reversal of Up and Down,” by Lucy Ives @l_cy_v_s. Link in bio!⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ "we are opposite like that" is an ongoing series of interdisciplinary works that comprises fictional mythologies for the poles, told from the non-human perspective of an elder that has witnessed deep time: the ice. Pairing poetry and archival material, the video recounts the tale of the omnipresent anxiety in Victorian England of an imminent glacial epoch. The disorienting fear of an invasive periphery sent shudders through the colonial enterprise, the tremors of which can be felt in contemporary times. Here, an alien figure traverses the blank, oblivious whiteness, and undergoes an Ovidian transformation into glimmering ice. 🏔️🧊🏔️🧊🏔️🧊🏔️⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ @davidsointappeser @arides @dhakadiana @formaartsmedia @friezeartfair⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ [video: trailer for “we are opposite like that” by Himali Singh Soin]⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ ❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ Curator and editor: Irene Sunwoo @_rinks⁣⁣ Web coordination: Shannon Werle @columbiagsapp⁣⁣ Graphic identity: Estudio Herrera @estudioherrera⁣⁣ Web development: Linked by Air @linkedbyair⁣⁣ ⁣⁣  

“Timescape adapts remnants of the quarrying operation for civic use, converting benches to meditative circuits. Walkways spaced with private event spaces subtracted from the quarry provide unique perspectival and temporal experiences. Visitors develop a personal relationship with the quarry beyond their stay: a spatial memory borrowed as a perpetual retreat.⁣” ⁣ Timescape by Marcell Sandor completed during the "Tomkins Cove Quarry: Extraction, Succession, Retreat" Advanced IV Studio led by .⁣ ⁣ Tomkins Cove Quarry in Stony Point NY is a 199-acre limestone quarry to the north of the Stony Point Battlefield on the Hudson River. This studio takes this form of ecological restoration as a partial given and considers possible futures for the site and its vast crater. ⁣ ⁣ .

Tomorrow (10/2) at 1PM, GSAPP hosts “The Feminist City,” a discussion between Leslie Kern & @annapuigjaner, GSAPP Associate Professor of Professional Practice, moderated by @jackhalberstam, Professor of Gender Studies & English at Columbia.⁣ Co-presented by the Institute for Research on Women, Gender, & Sexuality at Columbia.⁣ ⁣ Please visit arch.columbia.edu/events to learn about the School's Fall 2020 public programming series. Additional events during the month of October include: ⁣ ⁣ 10/5⁣ Lecture by the members of the Black Reconstruction Collective followed by a response from Charlette Caldwell, Caitlyn Campbell, Brian Turner, and Ife Vanable of the The Black Student Alliance (BSA+GSAPP) @bsa_gsapp ⁣ 10/8⁣ Memorial to Enslaved Laborers: A conversation among Gregg Bleam @greggbleam.landscape.architect; Diane Brown Townes; Frank Dukes; Eto Otitigbe @etootitigbe; Mabel O. Wilson @studio_and, Nancy and George Rupp Professor at GSAPP; Eric Höweler @ehoweler; & J. Meejin Yoon, moderated by Farah Jasmine Griffin. Co-presented by @columbiaschoolofthearts, Columbia's Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies, and Institute for Research in African-American Studies @aaads_iraas_columbiauniversity, @cornellaap, the Lapidus Center for the Historical Analysis of Transatlantic Slavery @schomburgcenter, @studiomuseum, & @queensmuseum ⁣ 10/12⁣ Lecture by Al Borde @albordearq followed by a response by Juan Herreros, Professor of Professional Practice at GSAPP ⁣ 10/19⁣ Lecture by J. Phillip Thompson, Deputy Mayor for Strategic Policy Initiatives for NYC, followed by a response from Weiping Wu, Professor & Director of the MSUP program at GSAPP⁣ ⁣ 10/26⁣ Lecture by L.E.FT Architects @leftarchitects followed by a response by Dean Amale Andraos⁣ ⁣ 10/29⁣ Paths to Prison: On the Architectures of Carcerality book launch & discussion: Edited by Isabelle Kirkham-Lewitt @isa__kl with contributions by Adrienne Brown, Stephen Dillon, Jarrett M. Drake, Sable Elyse Smith, James Graham, Leslie Lodwick, Dylan Rodríguez, Anne Spice, Brett Story, Jasmine Syedullah, Mabel O. Wilson, & Wendy L. Wright. @columbia_books_on_arch ⁣ ⁣

Project by Kabir Sahni @kabir.sahni and Tarun Abraham @tarun_ab completed during the "Modular Anatomy" course led by Andreas Tjeldflaat.⁣ ⁣ This course proposes a framework for capitalizing on this inflection point by leveraging a system-based, modular approach to architectural design in conjunction with emerging material and manufacturing technologies.⁣ ⁣ "Modular Anatomy" is offered as part of the Building Science Technology Sequence at Columbia GSAPP.⁣ ⁣

"This project is about the duality of people and vehicles’ movement, and the interaction between them which could generate unusual formal/spatial identity. The bifurcation of transparency and material further corresponds with the context of Washington, D.C."⁣ ⁣ "Bifurcator" by Guangwei Ren @guangweir completed during the "Mixed-Use, Staircases, Social..." Advanced Architecture VI Studio led by Hilary Sample @mmmosarchitects. This studio investigates the qualities of “large scale public spaces contrasting with the small private-scale patterns required within.” Given a generic structural grid and nondescript facade, that signals an architecture that is adaptable in the future. This studio researches, examines, and designs a new paradigm for social spaces within a proposed mixed-use program. ⁣ ⁣

"Alphabet City," a typeface made from aerial photos of apartment buildings and monuments, by Andrew Magnus @arch.magnus as part of the course Architectural Drawing & Representation 2 taught by Dan Taeyoung @dantaeyoung_, Andrew Heumann @beingheumann, Lexi Tsien-Shiang @soft_firm, Quentin Yiu @quentinyiu, and Violet Whitney. ⁣ ⁣ View more additional projects completed during this course in the Spatial Quaranzine: https://spatial-quaranzine.netlify.app⁣ ⁣ Architectural Drawing & Representation 2 is offered as part of the Visual Studies Sequence at GSAPP.⁣ ⁣

"Social Solar: A New Energy Landscape" by Hugo Bovea @hugobovea, Kunal Mokasdar @kunalmokasdar, Nina Ndichu @ninandichu, and Sharvari Raje @sharvari94 completed during the Urban Design Studio III "Water Urbanism: The Great Rift Valley.” ⁣ ⁣ Social Solar is a pilot project in Bat Yam which combines renewable energy and urbanism to design a more sustainable system to achieve the transition towards a resilient city for the future. It proposes a decentralised energy landscape that spans from the sea and all the way into the city by reducing dependency on non-renewable sources, and fostering a respectful relationship between energy, ecology, and society to combat the future scenarios of extreme climate events. ⁣ ⁣ The Spring 2020 Urban Design Studio III was coordinated by Kate Orff with Lee Altman @altmanx, Adriana Chavez @adrianachavezs, Dilip da Cunha, Fitsum Gelaye, Geeta Mehta, Thad Pawlowski, and Julia Watson.⁣⁣ ⁣