Continuing from yesterday, the stool was fabricated in a mad dash after hours during the last week of school last spring. We had access to a CNC milling machine at a local fabrication shop and hired the help of a fabricator. My favorite memory involved catching a bus from the fabrication shop at midnight with a... Continue Reading →
Tonight PennDesign had a show to celebrate all the work done over the past school year. The centerpiece was a 'menagerie', netting which had sheets of paper hung from it to catch projected images. It provided an interesting volume for the image to inhabit, as opposed to the usual flat surface. Kudos to Eric Wong... Continue Reading →
Just had my final final studio review of graduate school. More deadlines on the way, so another quick post of a few slides from today. More to follow.
The following essay is an abstract for my final studio. The research studio was led by Stephen Kieran, James Timberlake, Jacob Mans and assisted by Billie Faircloth, all of the architecture firm KieranTimberlake. The final review will be tomorrow, May 8th in their offices. Computers and cell phones provide massive improvements in connectivity and productivity, but also... Continue Reading →
Another project from Landscape/Urbanism Case Studies, this time in New York City's harbor. A chain of floating levees would serve as pedestrian paths and also convert tidal currents into electrical currents. During a storm event the turbines would close and the levees would rise with the storm surge. This project completed with Rebecca Fischman and Tadashi Kikuno
Here are the last 5 of the 10 image slide show introduction I gave to my classmates back at the beginning of my first grad school studio. As long as the last three years have felt, these 10 images still seem important. Much of the work has receded in importance, but the themes and ideas... Continue Reading →
Tonight I had the chance to reconnect with a few classmates and our first grad school studio critic. Our first assignment of grad school, back in Architecture 501, was to set up and present a 10 image slideshow as a means of introducing us to each other. I'll show my first 5 today and the... Continue Reading →
A few screen shots of a mobile lab for electronic waste processing in Downtown Dhaka. Given how scarce land is, this lab would set up shop under a 'flyover' (overpass), while a permanent shop is built along side it. Eventually, the lab would leave its environmental protection systems behind and take processed material to a... Continue Reading →
Last semester a representation class (landscape sketch class) asked students to think about what an ideal city would look like. The class looked at various cities in Italy, Morocco, France, Switzerland. My ideal city was informed by medinas in North Africa.
Another look at a group project from last year, this time located in Venezuela. Guyana City represents much of what city planners got wrong in the 1950s, with enormous roads and acres of median strips dividing neighborhoods. This scheme, completed with Rebecca Fischman and Tadashi Kikuno, had a series of stadia proposed along the large... Continue Reading →
Adam Achrati 