climate

futures


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


about
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





The Canopy
Craig Borum, Jen Maigret 2021

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The Canopy is a net-zero, multifamily proposal that models a climate-forward alternative vision for urban dwelling. The project developed in response to a single-family residential development scheme designed to clear cut a site rich with old growth walnut, hickory and bur oak trees. Neighborhood outcry successfully shut down the initial development scheme and communicated sustainability priorities. Our proposal consolidates and matches the original density into a 5-story bar, and preserves all of the old growth trees on site. The form curves slightly to minimize the visual impact on adjacent neighbors and is oriented to maximize the harvest of solar energy. In contrast to the pattern of balconies on the south orientation, the north side is unified by a lightweight green façade covered in native vines grown from the grounds. A mix of unit sizes and configurations provide affordability benchmarks supported by novel configurations of heat pumps, solar thermal recovery and graywater thermal recovery that minimize operational energy loads. The rooftop solar PV canopy balances total demands through its annual production. In sum, the project provides a multifamily residential model that cares for the future of shared living and climate by calibrating and coordinating technical and cultural approaches to sustainability within a heritage landscape.