The cyber-Garden project embodies a cybernetic and machinic paradigm within the framework of a large 1:200 scale architectural model. Such attempt to combine languages and methods has a strong... More > contemporary relevance. The ecologic and sustainable design ethos has become central to any architectural discourse but it’s still seeking more radical solutions to an accepted list of problematic questions. The project tests a design method centered on interbreeding architectural design with social sciences, ecology and cybernetics: the designer here facilitates communication between diverse and heterogeneous systems and ecologic regimes. Flows of light and nutrients, human care and physical contact or ecological stress analysis are allowed to contribute to the growth and evolution of an augmented architectural model, a 1:200 representation of a cyber-garden city.< Less
The ultimate goal of the UEC project was to expose students to collaboration and professional-level thinking, to challenge them to manifest the culture of a real-world client and to practice... More > sustainable design in a cost effective and imaginative way. The “Team Minimal” proposal from MIAD was selected by the UEC staff for further design development in the spring semester of 2010. MIAD’s Green Studio team collaborated with local professionals and sustainable design experts to enhance the winning schematic design by adding green material specifications, lighting plans, furniture designs, and additional green building components.< Less
Great cities tend to have great civic spaces. Such civic spaces imbue their surroundings with promise. The critical relationship between civic space and urban context is the foundational issue of the... More > City Ecologies studio.
This document presents the work of the City Ecologies studio, the first phase of a yearlong research and design study investigating a comprehensive vision for green space in downtown Kansas City. The study was initiated by the Downtown Council of Kansas City (DTC) and coordinated by the Kansas City Design Center.
City Ecologies studio was an eight-week summer course taught by Assistant Professors Blake Belanger, Dr. Jason Brody, and Howard Hahn at Kansas State University. The thirty landscape architecture students participating in the studio were comprised of non-baccalaureate master’s degree students entering their fourth year and post-baccalaureate master’s degree students entering their second year of study.< Less
Great cities tend to have great civic spaces. Such civic spaces imbue their surroundings with promise. The critical relationship between civic space and urban context is the foundational issue of the... More > City Ecologies studio.
This document presents the work of the City Ecologies studio, the first phase of a yearlong research and design study investigating a comprehensive vision for green space in downtown Kansas City. The study was initiated by the Downtown Council of Kansas City (DTC) and coordinated by the Kansas City Design Center.
City Ecologies studio was an eight-week summer course taught by Assistant Professors Blake Belanger, Dr. Jason Brody, and Howard Hahn at Kansas State University. The thirty landscape architecture students participating in the studio were comprised of non-baccalaureate master’s degree students entering their fourth year and post-baccalaureate master’s degree students entering their second year of study.< Less
Bio-dynamic Ecologies
Estuaries in the Mediterranean coast are defined through the conjunction of two different ecosystems providing the ground for rich biodiversity. The steady cutback of these... More > areas threatens the breeding areas of migrating bird species. Bio-dynamic Ecologies provides an infrastructure of islands for the creation of artificial habitats following the characteristics of delta areas.
The proposal investigates on the potential of the dynamics of the sea surface by harvesting the wave’s energy and by using it as an input for seasonal changes in the topography of the artificial islands.< Less
Increasing biodiversity in the Mediterranean Sea through floating landscapes as bird species incubators at the estuary of the Ebro Delta
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Estuaries in the Mediterranean coast are defined through the... More > conjunction of two different ecosystems providing the ground for rich biodiversity. The steady cutback of these areas threatens the breeding areas of migrating bird species. Bio-dynamic Ecologies provides an infrastructure of islands for the creation of artificial habitats following the characteristics of delta areas.
The proposal investigates on the potential of the dynamics of the sea surface by harvesting the wave’s energy and by using it as an input for seasonal changes in the topography of the artificial islands.< Less
This full-color publication is a compilation of articles from the 2009 Unspoken Borders Call for Papers, under the theme "Ecologies of Inequality". This theme is an investigation of the... More > systems, infrastructure, and design processes that create or perpetuate socio-economic and environmental stratification of our communities. This theme asserts that social inequities are unsustainable, not only in terms of socio-economic injustices, but also in regards to the amount of resources invested in maintaining or creating these inequalities.
The "Call for Papers" sought proposals that dealt with issues of the environment (constructed, cultivated or untended), public health, mobility and access, communication, and race, class and culture. Featured articles come from design fields of architecture, landscape architecture, city planning, historic preservation, and urban design.
This publication is associated with PennDesign Black Student Association's annual Unspoken Borders Conferences.< Less
