climate

futures


On view at the Liberty Research Annex
October 17, 2024 - January 1, 2025


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projects
  1. 22/26 Midwest
  2. Ambiguous Territory
  3. Annotation and Insulation
  4. Asutsuare Rebound
  5. Atlas of the Trans-Apocalypse
  6. Becoming Biomass
  7. Bespoke Ultra-Thin Layered 3D-printed Reusable Wood-Bio-Based Formwork for Casting Complex Concrete Geometries
  8. Branch Wall: Geometrically Informed Non-Planar Toolpath and Material Deposition
  9. Deploy 2.0
  10. Detroit Cultural Center
  11. Elephant in the Room, and Other Fables
  12. Fabric-Formed Unstabilized Poured Earth
  13. Frie(s/d)
  14. Functionally Graded Additive Manufacturing
  15. Guidance for Designing and Implementing Constitutionally Valid Local Plans and Regulations to Protect Landmarked Trees, Woodlands, and Tree Canopy in Michigan
  16. Heat and Housing: Co-producing Passive Cooling Strategies and Promoting Health in Informal and Precarious Settlements
  17. Hygroscopic Envelope: Building Enclosures for Climate Adaptation
  18. In My Backyard
  19. In-Svalbard: Cold Coast Atlas
  20. Land, Foodways, and Kinship: The Case of Palestinian Villages
  21. Light Forms
  22. MiCE Architecture: Design Strategies to Mitigate Michigan Coastal Erosion
  23. Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit
  24. Myco-Composite Furniture
  25. Post Rock Post-Industrial Plastic Facade
  26. re:FE Reimagining Mining Waste from a Wounded Region
  27. Shell Wall: Coupling Non-Planar Robotic 3D Concrete Printing and Topology Optimization
  28. Solar Technology Integration on Building Facades
  29. The Canopy
  30. The Lifespan Project
  31. Unfolding Forms of Conveyance
  32. Urban Climate Law Series
  33. Vertical Wetlands





Deploy 2.0
Ana Morcillo Pallares, Jonathan Rule        2021-2022

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Deploy 2.0 advocates to engage the needs of other agents and non-human species in particular plants. Using a deployable structure as a prototype to mediate sun exposure and promote plant growth, the project draws attention to biodiversity preservation for the medicinal plant garden at the Matthaei Botanical Gardens. In a time where there is a heightened awareness of the human impact on the environment, how can architectural practices alleviate and improve the spatial conditions for humans and nonhumans alike? The proposal revisits lightweight architectures as non-permanent and flexible catalysts for the collective experience. The modular system is designed to expand and contract, imitating the annual cycle of a deciduous tree. During the spring and summer, the structure “blooms” and provides shade that allows for the density of the shade to be tuned to the needs of the plants below. During the fall and winter months, the canopy collapses, allowing for maximum sunlight to reach the plants below. The project’s dynamic, playful, and sensorial presence encourages learning about the affordances of medicinal plants and lightweight deployable structures. In addition, it serves as a demonstration of principles for sustainability through passive systems and simple actions that promote environmental awareness.

Additional credits:
Noel Ridley, Prescott Trudeau, Niels Hoyle-Dodson and Grant Parker