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





Vertical Wetlands
Mania Aghaei Meibodi                 2024

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In the context of climate change, the urban ecological decline is exacerbated by the extensive use of impervious materials in urban structures, including the Urban Heat Island effect, reduced water storage capacity in urban fabric, and biodiversity loss. Urban Vertical Green (UVG) systems, represented by green facades, living walls, and vertical farming, offer solutions to mitigate these environmental degradations. This study investigates a method utilizing large-scale 3D printing to create a novel UVG system that supports multiple plant species through a hierarchical watering system. By adopting complex geometric designs with inner features, the proposed system can potentially provide diversified water and nutrient input to accommodate multiple plant species and facilitate biodiversity in urban settings. The study involves designing, fabricating, and testing a single construction-scale unit using robotic 3D printing with thermoplastic PETG. The successful prototype demonstrates the proposed system unit can be efficiently produced and easily maintained after installation. Therefore, the fundamental feasibility of the proposed UVG system is verified.