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


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  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





Hygroscopic Envelope: Building Enclosures for Climate Adaptation
Evgueni Filipov, Tsz Yan Ng, Wes McGee
        2024

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Hygroscopic Envelope explores how 3D printed ceramic facades can enable climate adaptation and resilience by collecting, retaining, and controlling release of stormwater. The research seeks to extend lessons from Landscape-based Stormwater Management Practices and other techniques for storing and infiltrating water, to the architectural facade. It advocates a paradigm shift for the building envelope, away from the conventional “rain screen” notion that facades must repel and shed water off the building, to one that directly engages and manages water in ways that benefit broader infrastructural and ecological systems that are vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. The research explores ways to alleviate the burden on municipal stormwater systems and the demand for intensive mechanical pumping systems that both consume significant amounts of energy and contribute to land subsidence over time. The work operates at three interrelated scales–the micro (material), the meso (component), and the macro (aggregated assembly)–to develop an integrated understanding of how material performance and the design of modular systems can beneficially interface with buildings, landscapes, and other stormwater infrastructures. Two demonstrations are planned, one in Ann Arbor at The Nichols Arboretum and another in New Orleans at the Smart Center.