2412EBRIE AQUACULTURE INSTITUTE
Ebrah, Abidjan, CI Issa Diabate, Anna Dyson, Matthew Rosen and Steven Ehrlich, Critics
Along the Ebrie lagoon, the land belongs to both everybody and nobody, creating a zone that is both precarious and highly contested.
Building on the social organization of the fishing collective, a proposal for an urban organization centered on the aquaculture institute that acts as the node for a working waterfront that can respond to economies of stewardship across disciplines. The urban scheme protects the mangroves both for their aesthetic value and treats them as vital infrastructure, be it as an economic driver, a barrier against coastal erosion, or the foundation for a healthy coastal ecosystem
2405PLAYSCAPES
Secaucus, NJ David Moon, Critic
w/ Soraya Ammann
This project aims to leverage forgotten underpinnings to connect the fragmented population clusters on Secaucus’s periphery through park and greenway programs interspersed with multi-generational housing and education and cultural spaces in a way that fosters community within a growing population of mostly immigrant families.
Throughout the mile-long site, we use play as both mediator and connector, providing access and inviting people of all ages to traverse. The site is organized by a series of winding walkways, with sites of play as they overlap and intersect
2312INTERCHANGE
Fair Haven, CT Aniket Shahane, Critic
This project centers around the idea of interchange; be it in the form of borrowing and returning books, the choreography of hundreds of students arriving and departing from the site every school day, or the CT Transit buses that connect the adjacent blocks along Grand Avenue and Ferry St. It is deeply tied into a 2022 initiative which provides for a pedestrianization of Grand Ave. by emphasizing bus lanes and phasing out cars.
Here, transport spaces transform into an interchange for goods, for books, for foods, for ideas — for languages and cultures alike
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ST JOHNS SQUARE HOUSING
Middletown, CT Andrei Harwell & Alan Plattus, Critics w/ Alex Thomas, Edona Murseli, & U Jin Seah
Working with Saint John Roman Catholic Church and Columbus House, we helped re-envision a unused church school and vacant convent lot into 75 units of affordable housing. The proposal remediates the relationship between the Church and the surrounding block, creating accessible paths for parishioners and welcoming greenspace for residents.
We aim to reduce pedestrian barriers for residents and churchgoers alike, ensuring access throughout the campus and
creating a space that can be shared between the residents and the congregation
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INSTITUTE FOR SACRED MUSIC
Rotterdam, NL Brennan Buck, Critic
This project explores the auditory properties of a constructed landscape, taking inspiration from sacred caves throughout history wherein the sinusodal geometry of the cavern causes sound to echo in phase, creating a natural space for the amplification and proliferation of sound.
These cavernous corridors weave another informal program in between the formal spaces: as they expand and contract, each corridor creates a larger space for informal performances, with the sounds from that space echoing through the the hallway in harmonic phase
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JIM VLOCK BUILDING PROJECT
Fair Haven Heights, CT Adam Hopfner, Critic w/ Yuki Creighton, Trams Wang, U Jin Seah, Sadie Bushara, & Sabrah Islam
A house for two single mothers to provide a balance between privacy and community; between individual autonomy and collaboration. Each family enters into a shared central core that holds independent mud rooms, two kitchenettes and two flexible spaces for dining, living, or play.
The two private living rooms consider the parents’ individual needs and allow for family time while the shared space affords the opportunity for supportive childcare for parents and collaborative play for kids by providing large multipurpose spaces
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EDGEWOOD MONTESSORI SCHOOL
New Haven, CT Professional Work - Matthew Rosen, PM
w/ Julie Chen and Cindy Duan
Proposal and construction drawings for a mixed-use adaptive reuse project in a vacant mansion in Edgewood. A Montessori school in conjunction with the Greater Dwight Development Co. is to be inserted into the property, as are apartments for teachers in the upper floors. This project utilizes the existing carriage house and breezeway to create a new street entrance for the school program and repurposes a 1980s addition to add large naturally-lit classrooms within
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Y2Y YOUTH SHELTER
East Haven, CT Turner Brooks, Critic
Design for a youth shelter for the nonprofit Y2Y’s expansion efforts into New Haven. The interior of the space borrows from the topography of the nearby highway embankment, extending it into the program in as a grand staircase that spans the entire program, upon which each individual living space rests. The rooms are arranged amidst the staircase figure in order to provide a view outwards toward the sunken garden behind the shelter, so that each room has its own unique, unobstructed view of the world outside. Between them, spaces for congregation are interwoven
1905LIVING MEMORIALS
Key Biscayne, FL Steven Harris & Gavin Hogben, Critics
Design for an aquatic field of columbaria in between the barrier islands in Biscayne Bay, around Coconut Grove. This project proposes an arrangement of concrete funerary stelae - each containing different affordances for a wide variety of lifeforms, from anchors for acropora, to coves for sea turtles, to roosts for seabirds. The differing amounts of life on each of the stelae will mark them as unique, individual grave sites that will continue to evolve as time passes