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STUDENT WORK
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STUDIO: ALL RIGHTS REVERSED
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
WINTER 2014
Professor: Leigha Dennis
Wallenberg Studio, Undergraduate Thesis Studio
This studio investigated the rights to architecture those that are bound by the
ownership of copyright as private property, along with those that might reassess
ownership through an architectural commons. There is not yet an active history of
copyright protection in architecture, yet the design culture is one that oscillates
between design inuence and originality, wavering between illegality and legality.
At a time when digital culture has accelerated the dissemination and duplication
of ideas and information, the discourse around intellectual property rights regimes
has expandedas its current governance lingers in an indeterminate zone of
ambiguity and subjectivity. Amnesty is scrutinized case-by-case.
In this studio, we established the policies and protocols for approaching an
internal architectural commons. Students developed individual projects, but
within a framework for sharing and citing portions of their research and strategies,
addressing issues regarding non-proprietary content, standards for creating
derivative work, plagiarism, citation, etc.
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VIRILIOS BUNKER BY COREY BLASKIE
A week long assignment aimed to provoke
and question the denitions of copyright.
Photographs of physical scaled models
were made to replicate well known
copyrighted architectural images.
STUDENT WORK
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PRADA MARFA BY BROOKE DEXTER
TEACHING: ALL RIGHTS REVERSED
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STUDENT WORK
BARCELONA PAVILION BY ADAM WAGNER
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CONTROL
The independence of oneself is constantly interrupted by set
guidelines.
DIVISION
Groups form according to various racial and political views.
PHYSICAL ISOLATION
Isolation of oneself from the group to avoid conflict.
COLLABORATION
The requirement of group effort allowfor the development of
relationships.
BONDING
Lack of an external human connection is replaced with an
internal one.
MENTAL ISOLATION
Separation from the surrounding environment is needed for
reflection and personal development.
DAILY INTERACTIONS
The daily routine and interaction set up formal and informal
relationships.
CONFLICT
Disputes are often resolved in a verbal or physical namer.
[COOK]
David
[HC595]
Mathew
COUNSELING
An essential need for relief from stress is necessary regardless
of the environment.
OCCUPATION
Occupation within a system becomes obsolete when placed in
a different system.
THRESHOLD
Limitation of access keeps a constant barrier between the
internal and the external society.
EDUCATION
Learning becomes not only a method for mental development
but also pastime activity.
[LIBRARIAN]
Jim
[GS509]
Paul
A2
A1
A2
A1
A3
A3
A4
A4
A5
A5
S6
A6
A7
A7
A8
A8
A9
A9
B1
B1
B2
B2
B3
B3
[GUARD]
Alex
[GS863]
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[GS724]
Dan
[GS903]
Andrew
[CHIEF]
Matt
[JANITOR]
Corey (Police Officer)
[GS310]
Josh
[GS195]
Ethan
[GUARD]
Tommy
[GS062]
Sam
[COLLEGE
PROFESSOR]
James
[GS337]
Taylor
[GS858]
Adam
[GUARD]
Sean
[COUNSELOR]
Robert
[GS889]
Chris
[GUARD]
John
[TATTOO ARTIST]
Dexter
[WRITER]
Cody [GS785]
Phill
FORT LEAVENWORTH: ANEXISTING SOCIAL CONDITION
GUARDS
INCARCERATED
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Up
Up Up
Up
SOCIAL THEATER: A PLANFOR A MODIFIED PRISONSYSTEM
GUARDS
INCARCERATED
PUBLIC
FAMILY OF INCARCERATED
In this space, which takes into account
both acoustic and visual conditions, the
fermentation airlock limits the physical
access between the two groups.
Lowering the public space creates a switch in the hierarchies,
giving visual control to the incarcerated.
The linear housing organization breaks away, focusing on
establishing a familiar environment, one similar to the outside.
The transition between spaces becomes the
stage for a conversation between bodies.
The auditorium capitalizes on the interactions between unfamiliar bodies
and uses it as a tool to break the social barrier.
The theater questions the roles of society in terms of who is being
observed and who is observing. It creates a play of theatrical value, not
of entertainment, but of the body.
PRISON BY MUHAMMAD ALSHADOOD
STUDENT WORK
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Username: katiel813
Caption: Visited the
Eiffel Tower on my
break from studio
thanks to @stephrit!
#capturingtheimage
Username: dextebro
Caption: Eiffel
Tower in motion
#capturingtheimage
Username: hijohnyoon
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Username: matthrhe
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Username: szamler
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Username: stephrit
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#capturingtheimage
Username: mmob248
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Username: katiel813
Caption: Visited the
Eiffel Tower on my
break from studio
thanks to @stephrit!
#capturingtheimage
Username: dextebro
Caption: Eiffel
Tower in motion
#capturingtheimage
Username: hijohnyoon
Caption:
#capturingtheimage
Username: matthrhe
Caption:
#capturingtheimage
Username: szamler
Caption: Shout out
to my ug1 homie @
stephrit #taubman
#capturingtheimage
Username: conpoy
Caption:
#capturingtheimage
Username: matthrhe
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Username: lilliancdela
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Username: dclunis
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Caption: Paris,
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Username:
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Caption:
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#fakefrance
#eiffeltower #taubman
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Username:
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#tcaup
Username: zomapa
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Username: icemmoo
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Username: jdburg
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#eiffeltowerselfe
Username: allysonhrit
Caption:
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Username: ajae_
whittaker
Caption:
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Username: falroider
Caption: Someone
was curious why I was
reaching into this box
#capturingtheimage
Username: matthrhe
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Username: jue2joy
Caption:
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Username: lleigha
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Username: unkrnmel
Caption: Paris,
Michigan
#capturingtheimage
Username: marygmil
Caption:
#capturingtheimage
Username: stephrit
Caption: Take
images of the Eiffel
Tower Replica!!!
THIS WEEK ONLY!
CMYK Space!
#capturingtheimage
Username: mmob248
Caption:
#capturingtheimage
#godzilla #eiffeltower
Username: katiel813
Caption: Visited the
Eiffel Tower on my
break from studio
thanks to @stephrit!
#capturingtheimage
Username: dextebro
Caption: Eiffel
Tower in motion
#capturingtheimage
Username: hijohnyoon
Caption:
#capturingtheimage
Username: matthrhe
Caption:
#capturingtheimage
Username: szamler
Caption: Shout out
to my ug1 homie @
stephrit #taubman
#capturingtheimage
Username: conpoy
Caption:
#capturingtheimage
Username: matthrhe
Caption:
#capturingtheimage
#imnottouchingit
Username: lilliancdela
Caption:
#capturingtheimage
Username: dclunis
Caption:
#capturingtheimage
Username: unkrnmel
Caption: Paris,
Michigan
#capturingtheimage
Username:
moeshadood
Caption:
#capturingtheimage
#fakefrance
#eiffeltower #taubman
#architecture
Username:
jacqbuck22
Caption:
#capturingtheimage
#tcaup
Username: zomapa
Caption:
#capturingtheimage
Username: icemmoo
Caption:
#capturingtheimage
Username: jdburg
Caption:
#capturingtheimage
#eiffeltowerselfe
Username: allysonhrit
Caption:
#capturingtheimage
Username: ajae_
whittaker
Caption:
#capturingtheimage
Username: falroider
Caption: Someone
was curious why I was
reaching into this box
#capturingtheimage
Username: matthrhe
Caption:
#capturingtheimage
Username: jue2joy
Caption:
#capturingtheimage
Username: lleigha
Caption:
#capturingtheimage
Username: unkrnmel
Caption: Paris,
Michigan
#capturingtheimage
Username: marygmil
Caption:
#capturingtheimage
Username: stephrit
Caption: Take
images of the Eiffel
Tower Replica!!!
THIS WEEK ONLY!
CMYK Space!
#capturingtheimage
Username: mmob248
Caption:
#capturingtheimage
#godzilla #eiffeltower
Username: katiel813
Caption: Visited the
Eiffel Tower on my
break from studio
thanks to @stephrit!
#capturingtheimage
Username: dextebro
Caption: Eiffel
Tower in motion
#capturingtheimage
Username: hijohnyoon
Caption:
#capturingtheimage
Username: matthrhe
Caption:
#capturingtheimage
Username: szamler
Caption: Shout out
to my ug1 homie @
stephrit #taubman
#capturingtheimage
Username: conpoy
Caption:
#capturingtheimage
Username: matthrhe
Caption:
#capturingtheimage
#imnottouchingit
Username: lilliancdela
Caption:
#capturingtheimage
Username: dclunis
Caption:
#capturingtheimage
Username: unkrnmel
Caption: Paris,
Michigan
#capturingtheimage
Username:
moeshadood
Caption:
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#fakefrance
#eiffeltower #taubman
#architecture
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TOURIST ATTRACTION BY STEPHANIE HRIT
STUDENT WORK
CAPTURING THE IMAGE
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Eiffel Tower
N
As tourists get closer to the tower
images are more focused on the
people rather than the tower,
although capturing the Eiffel Tower is
also very important.
Source: www.donteverlookback.com
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Attribution
CC BY
RELATIONSHIP TO SITE
S7
Eiffel Tower
Paris, France
The Eiffel Tower has a strong relationship to the lawn on which it sits. The
lawn provides a clear view of the tower, because there are few obstructions.
Tourists and locals are able to see the tower froma great distance because
of its height in the city and the height of other buildings in Paris as well. The
iconic images of the Eiffel Tower are generated because of the open lawn.
This also allows for images of Paris to be fromthe top of the Eiffel Tower.
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This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work even for
commercial purposes, as long as they credit you and license their new
creations under the identical terms. All new works based on yours will carry
the same license, so any derivatives will also allow commercial use.
The Lawn
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Site Map (above)
Perspective of the foundation of the
Eiffel Tower (left)
Source: Bolloch, Joelle. The Eiffel
Tower. Milan: 5 Continents Editions,
2005.
REPRODUCTI ONS
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Eiffel Tower - Life Size
Eiffel Tower
Paris, France
324 meters
Las Vegas, Nevada
1:2
Hangzhou, China
1:3
Shenzhen, China
1:3
Durango, Mexico
1:6
Slobozia, Romania
1:6
Parizh, Russia
1:6
Paris, Texas
1:16
Filiatra, Greece
1:18
Paris, Tennessee
1:20
The Eiffel Tower is replicated all over the world
and at different scales. These are the 9 largest
replicas in the world. In addition to these there
are replicas in Spain, Bolivia, China, Honduras,
Japan, Guatemala, Morocco, Estonia, and the
Czech Republic.
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CAPTURING THE IMAGE
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Eiffel Tower
N
Tourists are able to take photographs
of Paris when they start to climb the
tower.
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TOR BUNKER BY COREY BLASKIE
TEACHING: ALL RIGHTS REVERSED
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OPEN HOUSE STUDIO
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
FALL 2013
Professor: Leigha Dennis
Networks Studio, Graduate Architecture Studio
The home is an ecosystema place to live. It constructs the environment in
which we nd comfort, routine and ritual. It includes the objects we use daily, the
spaces we live and sleep in, but can also extend beyond demarcated architectural
boundaries. This studio investigated how digital culture has and will reshape the
way we livecreating new social structures, and new ways of communicating,
collaborating, and coexisting. Students were responsible for negotiating the
domestic landscape across many scales, while at varying extents and resolutions:
the scale of the object and domestic interior, the building form and the urban
conguration.
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TEACHING: OPEN HOUSE
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STUDENT WORK
PROJECT BY JENNIFER NGUYEN
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TEACHING: OPEN HOUSE
PROJECT BY CARMEN PETERSEN
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PROJECT BY SEAN NIU
STUDENT WORK
ESTCODE
ESTCODE
1 bdm
1 bdm
cvs
studio
4 bdm
2 bdm
studio
studio
daycare
studio
studio
2bdm
2 bdm
studio
playground
studio
mcdonalds
studio
studio/
laundry
waiting
laundromat
4 bedroom/game center/pool
hall
studio
studio
bowling alley
1 bdm
studio
cafe
open
community
space
studio
studio
gym
locker room/pool
studio
studio/
stage for
cafe
1 bdm
studio
studio
bar
studio/kitchen for bar
studio
bakery
studio/uses kitchen
in bakery
1 bdm
1 bdm
studio
studio
studio
deli
1 bdm/newstand/
bus stop
studio
1 bdm
art gallery 2 bed/
artist studio
studio
1 bdm
1 bdm
1 bdm
studio
running track
9 lap = 1 mile
street of
fresh food
glory supermarket
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TEACHING: OPEN HOUSE
PROJECT BY ALINA GRANVILLE
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STUDENT WORK
PROJECT BY ALINA GRANVILLE
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TEACHING: OPEN HOUSE
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SECRET LIFE OF OBJECTS
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
FALL 2013
Professor: Leigha Dennis
ARCH 516, Graduate Representation Seminar
5 week project
In this seminar, we explicated and critically investigated object oriented modes of
representation, in particular those which abandon the belief that humans exist at the
center of being. We explored the representation of objects free from the hegemony of
human perceptionallowing objects to gain meaning through any use, not strictly human
use, including all relations between one object and another. We used an indexical approach
to dissect and analyze these relationships through lists, photographs, joiners, collages,
dissections, exploding axonometrics, and other formats and methods that might emphasize
the depiction of an object or subject in total, and not of a scene from the perspective of the
artist.
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TEACHING: SECRET LIFE OF OBJECTS
PARKING LOT BY MARK KELLER
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STUDENT WORK
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TEACHING: SECRET LIFE OF OBJECTS
TELEPHONE BY STEVEN CAVEZZALI
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STUDENT WORK
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TEACHING: SECRET LIFE OF OBJECTS
HARD DRIVE BY AMBER BREWSTER
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STUDENT WORK
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TEACHING: SECRET LIFE OF OBJECTS
WALLET BY SIDNEY MIGOSKI
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STUDENT WORK
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TEACHING: SECRET LIFE OF OBJECTS
GLASSES BY BRIANNE PAPENDICK
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STUDENT WORK
TANGLES BY ALEXANDRA ZIEMBA
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TEACHING: SECRET LIFE OF OBJECTS
UMBRELLA BY CAROL NUNG
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STUDENT WORK
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TEACHING: SECRET LIFE OF OBJECTS
UMBRELLA BY CAROL NUNG
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WEB AS SITE
COLUMBIA UNIVERISTY, GSAPP
SPRING 2013
Architecture Online Lab
Professors: Leigha Dennis and Troy Conrad Therrien
Assistant: Jochen Hartman
Graduate Seminar
Digital networks provide one of the primary interfaces and organizing structures
of 21st century urban life, yet architects are often left without the skills to engage
directly. This course, as part of the Architecture Online Lab, provided students from
across the spectrum of programs at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning
and Preservation at Columbia University with the basic toolkit for web design and
development in order to leverage the web as a site to more fully articulate the
consequences of, and avenues for tapping the innovation capital of the Bowery.
Students of architecture, urban design, planning, preservation, real estate
development and critical and curatorial practices tapped APIs, summoned crowds,
exploited interactivity, embraced mobile devices and connected online and ofine
space in a host of working and publicly accessible web site and apps.
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TEACHING: WEB AS SITE
PROJECT BY EBBERLY STRATHAIRN, PAUL CHAN, RICHARD DUFF, JEREMY KIM, JIM STODDART, DICHEN DING
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STUDENT WORK
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TEACHING: WEB AS SITE
PROJECT BY EMANUEL ADMASSU, VAHAN MISAKYAN, MADEEHA MERCHANT, CAROLINA MONTILLA, HANXIAO YANG
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STUDENT WORK
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TEACHING: WEB AS SITE
PROJECT BY MARTIN LODMAN, WHITNEY BOYKIN, TIFFANY RATTRAY
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STUDENT WORK
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TEACHING: WEB AS SITE
PROJECTS INSTALLED AT THE NEW MUSEUMS IDEAS CITY FESTIVAL
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BUILDING MEGALOPOLIS
COLUMBIA UNIVERISTY, GSAPP
SPRING 2013
Building Megalopolis was part of the Extreme Cities collaboration between the
Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation and Audi AG.
We hypothesized that cities will intensify considerably during the next fty years.
Instead of the usual mindset seeing the growth of global cities as an overwhelming
set of seemingly unmanageable problems, we set out to take the process of
intensication itself to an extreme. The BOSWASH megalopolis was our physical
site, our temporal site being both the past and the future. For the rst half of
studio, each student examined one urban quality and one work of architecture
or planning that embodied it in the fteen years subsequent to Jean Gottmanns
seminal 1961 analysis, Megalopolis: The Urbanized Northeastern Seaboard of
the United States. For the second half of the semester, we looked fty years into
the future, to a time when the current GSAPP students would be in their eighties.
Students produced one project embodying their quality for the future. These were
meant to unsettle our conceptions about architecture and cities present and
future and to allow us to think beyond the atemporality of contemporary culture.
Network Architecture Lab
Professor: Kazys Varnelis, Ph.D.
Associate: Leigha Dennis
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TEACHING: BUILDING MEGALOPOLIS
PROJECT BY RUTH WANG
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STUDENT WORK
PROJECT BY TIFFANY RATTRAY
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PROJECT BY TIFFANY RATTRAY
TEACHING: BUILDING MEGALOPOLIS
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This studio explored the re-construction of the Port Authority Bus Terminal in New York City.
A structure of 1.5 million square feet, passed through daily by hundreds of thousands of
commuters, over seven thousand buses, and thousands of automobiles, providing parking
for over 1,000 spaces for automobiles on top, surmounting a subway below, linked to the
Lincoln Tunnel through massive ramps for vehicular trafc, and accommodating a signicant
shopping area, the PABT operates in a realm between building, city, and infrastructure. We
were interested in this overlap as a venue for experimentation in programming and design.
Using scenario-planning techniques, we set out to develop new hypotheses for the future
of the PABT for a world in which mobility is as much a matter of portable networked
telecommunications devices as travel. With the resurgence of bus travel, the Terminal has
the opportunity to become an even more signicant gateway into the city for both commuters
and visitors. Containing signicant retail space, the PABT is a major center of commerce in
the Times Square area. How do we make a building that embraces civic, commercial and
infrastructural spaces while remaining secure?
TERMINAL CONDITION
COLUMBIA UNIVERISTY, GSAPP
SPRING 2012
Network Architecture Lab
Professor: Kazys Varnelis, Ph.D.
Associate: Leigha Dennis
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PROJECT BY JOCHEN HARTMANN
TEACHING: TERMINAL CONDITION, SPRING 2012
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STUDENT WORK
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PROJECT BY JACOB ESOCOFF
TEACHING: TERMINAL CONDITION, SPRING 2012
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PROJECT BY LUIS PARIS
STUDENT WORK
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TEACHING: TERMINAL CONDITION, SPRING 2012
Students compiled a 147 page research document
exploring the Port Authority through 5 main themes:
Politics, Technology, Ecology, Economics, and Society.
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RESEARCH, MAPS, AND DATA
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PROJECT BY ANTHONY SUNGA
TEACHING: TERMINAL CONDITION, SPRING 2012
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FACTORY STUDIO
COLUMBIA UNIVERISTY, GSAPP
SPRING 2011
This studio reimagined the factory for the twenty-rst century, setting out to
understand the architect as a builder of not merely physical edices but also
social, conceptual, and technical structures.
If modernity is dened by mass production, then the factory is modern
architectures denitive typology. Early factories were widely understood as
sublime, sites of awe and horror that could only be overcome by the exertion of
human reason. Spurred by this challenge from the eighteenth century onward,
architects and social reformers envisioned rational and just factories, not merely
workplaces but rather centers of human habitation, places of joy in labor, and
envisioned societies built around them.
Today, the factory evokes images of structures either converted to art museums,
lofts, or abandoned to decay. With factories outsourced, design has all but
abandoned re-imagining this critical site of human activity, the one truly new
building type of modernity. Our interest is to use architecture and the most
advanced thinking in network culture to construct new and better ways of life. In
doing so, this studio was engaged rst and foremost with institution building and
shaping of social behavior.
The studio topic emerged from research into how we can navigate a landscape
dened not by scarcity but by over-abundance. The very model of economythe
management and distribution of scarce resources is undone by overproduction
and overaccumulation. 19 million housing units are vacant in the United States,
345,000 in Ireland, 340,000 in Dubai, 1.5 million in Spain and 64 million in China
Such stark gures call into question the very premise of building. What is the
purpose of buildingno matter how sustainablywhen it means only more
excess that must somehow be consumed?
Students developed centers for small-scale manufacture and distribution. These
centers eschewed a corporate model for a commons-based model, providing
infrastructures, enclaves, guilds, or clubs in which individuals and small groups
can work. Our intent was to envision such centers as means of reinvigorating local
economies even as they provide models for life in societies if and when our current
economic system collapses.
Network Architecture Lab
Professor: Kazys Varnelis, Ph.D.
Associate: Leigha Dennis
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