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- Frozen Cities Liquid Networks: Landjacking the Mackenzie
[The amphibious landscape of Mackenzie River Delta in the Northwest Territories]
At 4,200 kilometres in length, the Mackenzie River in North-western Canada is one of the longest rivers in the world (11th). Its watershed, 1.8 million square kilometres in size, drains one-fifth of the country. The River, whose headwaters begin in the Peace and Athabasca rivers, [...]
- Frozen Cities Liquid Networks: Re-rigging Aumanil
[Arctic nations, continental shelves and territorial limits]
[Ed note: this work was produced in the Frozen Cities Liquid Networks studio.]
At 162,000 km (including the Arctic Archipelago), Canada is the country with the longest Arctic shoreline – ahead of its compatriots Russia, Norway, Greenland/Denmark, and the USA. Arctic Nations have been racing to chart their respective under-water [...]
- Student Works: Thermarium
Processing Water Overflow
The Thermarium envisions a new beach typology for the Toronto Waterfront. Responding to the lack of swimming at Toronto’s new urban beaches and consistent CSO (combined sewage overflow) closures at surrounding swim areas, we offer new possibilities for water immersion and activity that are enabled, rather than prohibited, by the polluted run-off instigated [...]
- -arium: Weather + Architecture
[Arium: Weather + Architecture]
Is Weather the last vestige of nature in the City?
Do the forces in Weather systems hold the key to the energy crisis?
Is instability and disorder something that can be designed?
Is Weather the nemesis of Architecture or its best friend?
Is Weather becoming the last form of cultural specificity?
Does it all come down to [...]
- Student Works: Trawling the Thames / Fish 'n Ships
[The Tower Bridge Seafood Market explores a fictitious urban scenario where direct access to the sea provides the ability for fish farming to become free-ranging. All drawings by Jonathan Blair.]
Last month I had the pleasure of attending final reviews at University of Michigan Taubman College for two days. I saw an incredible range of work [...]
- Studio: Frozen Cities, Liquid Networks
[Frozen Cities, Liquid Networks, Advanced Studio, University of Waterloo, Fall 2009.]
Today we are having the final review of the "Frozen Cities, Liquid Networks" Studio at the University of Waterloo. We will be sharing some of the work here in the coming week or two, but in the meantime, here is the brief. Please email us [...]
- Student Works: Smart-Ark
[10 living, breathing, sweating towers form a line of defense in a fragile estuary. All images by Nicholas Szczepaniak.]
Acting as a defense barrier, these 10 massive towers form a line in the Blackwater Estuary in Essex, UK. They are the vision of Nicholas Szczepaniak, a recent graduate of Westminster, and the winner of the RIBA [...]
- Student Works: Ecotone Hydro Park
[Hydro park adds a public park, animal habitats and water treatment to an existing dam ]
A recent thesis project at McGill University by Tania Delage takes Lebbeus Woods’ idea of the borderline and the ecological phenomena of the ecotone as an opportunity to cross-breed infrastructure, ecology and public amenities.
The borderline is the site where various [...]
- Student Works: Arctic-tecture for the Global Commons
[View of Station 3, image courtesy of Andrea Brennen/ Carter Skemp]
With the aim of providing a global architecture in the world’s largest terra incognita, emerges recent MIT graduate Andrea Brennen's M.Arch thesis: Arctic-tecture for the Global Commons. Brennen’s proposal centers on the mysterious and remote continent of Antarctica – where architecture and infrastructure are [...]
- Student Works: Suburban Defense
[Tom Vigar's (very) defensible suburban enclaves complete with bunkers and missile silos. All images by Tom Vigar.]
Caught somewhere between No-Stop City and an Everyday Virilio-ism, Tom Vigar's Master of Architecture thesis "Subtopian Dreams" at Sheffield University posits a shared economy (and landscape) of suburbia and military sites. Arguing the inevitable links and interdependence of one [...]
