Box.Store.Urbanism
Box-store urbanism implies the re-location and re-conception of the large scale retail typically found in suburban box stores. The large retail volumes are immediately challenged by the urban fabricís need for reduced lot sizes, mixed use programs, and active street edges. Through intense urban negotiations and parametric modelling the project explores alternative configurations and various types of organizational strategies.
Buildings of the Future
Architects, Mies, Kurokawa, Fuller, Wright, Corbusier, and others have dreamed of future architecture that is adaptable to change over time. Buildings of the future will rely on these ideas as design becomes more resilient and integrated into a changing climate.
Center for Architectural Volumes
For the Arch210’s final studio project, “Center for Architectural Volumes,” students were asked to build upon previous work to create a space in Downtown Lincoln that could exhibit famous architectural volumes. In the first few weeks of the semester, students studied voids within their everyday surroundings and created abstract volumes, free of program and scale.
CLUI American Land Museum Gallery
The Center for Land Use Interpretation (CLUI) American Land Museum Gallery explores the boundary between architecture and topography, between building and site. The Gallery is only one building within a larger master plan for a 280-acre site along the Missouri River in Council Bluffs, IA.
Community Crucible
To provide a voice to the people, our project embraces the concept of Community Crucible. A place or situation in which concentrated forces interact to cause or influence change or development. To enact that change our proposal identifies three strategies to facilitate development; adapt, sustain, and engage.Adapt refers to the flexible and loosely fitted program that sits within the project that is ever changing with community needs.
Concrete Atla(nti)s
Representing our capacity to maintain archaic infrastructure in an overwhelming environment overflowing with waste, occupied by a population complacent to unrest, this project is as complex as the topics it alludes to. It is set in one of the 72 decommissioned Atlas-F missile silos scattered across the United States. This project critiques the haphazard mismanagement of reusable commodities of varying scales ranging from abandoned infrastructure to recyclable materials.
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