climate

futures


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





Light Forms
Alli Hoag, Catie Newell, Upali Nanda         2024

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Sunlight and moonlight are essential to our wellbeing as humans, providing a critical connection to our location on the planet and to our circadian rhythms. We have increasingly lost this tie to natural light and darkness in exchange for artificial lights. Our future built environments must connect more strongly to the pacing and quality of our surrounding atmospheric light to increase the health and functioning of the occupants. Because light can move through it, and be altered by it, glass is extremely important to our experience of light. Light Forms is a creative endeavor that investigates geometric glass units that tessellate in various patterns to build architectural structures that connect to and amplify the natural shifts of day and night.

Light Forms in large accumulations of glass hold powerful, awe-inspiring light and spatial characteristics, in addition to performing well in compression. Still further, when strategically assembled, it is 100% reusable and recyclable.

The shifting qualities of light and dark in the natural environment prismatically transmit within architectural spaces built using Light Forms, encouraging one’s embodied experience to connect with the present moment and the natural environment they exist within, motivating environmental stewardship and care.

Additional credits:
Research Assistants and Support: Laurin Aman, Biyang (Lucas) Yan, Rachael Henry; 
Collaborators: Omid Oilyan, OPLUS; Dow Inc.; Dr. Michael Guetz, Bowling Green State University; Libbey Glass; Robert Silman Associates; Nichols Arboretum; 
Collaborators on Extended Project: Karie Slavik, University of Michigan; Scott Haley, University of Michigan; University of Michigan Biological Station; Mary A. Rackham Institute