Category: Speculative Work
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Building the Resilient Campus
The University of Buffalo held an international design competition challenging architects, landscape architects, planners, and other allied design professionals to boldly envision the University at Buffalo’s South Campus—a public campus on its way to becoming carbon neutral—as a socio-ecologically integrated landscape that engages the pressing and intertwined challenges of climate…
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Initiative 99, a global architecture competition
Begin your application today! Join Initiative 99, a global architecture competition aimed at designing accessible, beautiful and dignified 3D-printed homes that can be built for under $99,000. The multi-phase competition offers a total prize purse of $1 million (USD). A selection of winning designs will be built by ICON and showcased…
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Mansion Global Luxe x NYU Metaverse
Marc Norman along with Noah Gaynor of Parcel and Michael Gord of GDA Capital had great exchange of insights on how the future digital real estate in the metaverse may take shape. The NYU School of Professional Studies has recently launched a Emerging Technologies Collaborative where industry partners and students…
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RADICAL MIDDLE GROUNDS: NEW AGENDAS FOR MEDIUM-DENSITY HOUSING
Radical Middle Grounds Symposium at UT Austin brought architects, historians, urban designers, and economists together for conversations about housing density, affordability, and the “middle grounds” between disciplines, scales and housing types. More information can be found here.
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The Egalitarian Metropolis: New Maps, Metrics and Modalities
Supported by the Michigan-Mellon Project on the Egalitarian Metropolis, “Mapping the Egalitarian Metropolis: Spaces of Hope” featured work by six interdisciplinary research teams led by University of Michigan Taubman College faculty, each using techniques of deep mapping, critical cartography, and community engagement to reveal planned and unplanned places within Detroit. …
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MIT’s Senseable City Lab – Benguerir
SENSEable City Lab is a cutting–edge multidisciplinary research group based at MIT that studies the interface between cities, people, and technologies and investigates how the ubiquity of digital devices and the various telecommunication networks that augment our cities, are impacting urban living. Marc Norman’s LAUNCH PAD (Aire de Lancement, in French) completed with the Lab for Benguerir, Morocco,…
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Getting Out of a Spot: Deployed Technologies and Revamped Codes for a Thriving Twenty-First-Century City
This article in a special issue of the Journal of Urban History examines ways to rethink auto-centric planning policies and deploy technology to increase density in the American city. click link for the abstract and full article. The issue, Reinventing the American Post-Industrial City includes articles by 12 authors and is Edited…
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Changing Places MIT Media Lab Creates City Office
City Office is a project that arose out of the MIT Media Lab, Changing Places Group. Project leads were Kent Larson with Hasier Larrea, Luis Alonso and Carlos Rubio. The project utilized architectural robotics to enable a hyper-efficient, dynamically reconfigurable co-working space that accommodates a wide range of activities in a…
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UPSTATE Produces an Alternative for the Almond Corridor
It has been stated that the decision on Interstate 81 represents the one of the biggest issues for the Syracuse region in 40 years. At this stage in the process the New York State Department of Transportation has revealed 16 different proposals which will now be analyzed. Options encompass tunnels,…
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UPSTATE and APTUM Explore Housing Typologies
In consultation with Habitat for Humanity Syracuse and funding partners, materials providers and stakeholders UPSTATE has tasked APTUM Design with thinking about the innovative use of insulating concrete products to create energy efficient, attractive and affordable housing in Upstate New York communities. the hope is to build at least two…