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Arash Adel
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The intersection of wicked problems and complex systems presents a fertile domain to rethink our understanding of persistent social and environmental problems, to mediate the manifold conflicts over land and natural resources, and thus to restructure our planning approaches...
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2020
Design and detailing of a new facility for the Michigan Animal Rescue League (MARL), with the core goal of achieving “a different breed of shelter.”
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2019
McLain Clutter, Cyrus Peñarroyo, Lucas Denit
What if the workers owned the factory? Detroit’s industrial past saw labor tethered to the line in Fordist synchrony to the benefit of the corporation. Assembly Lines flips that legacy.
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2019
A proposal seeking to revitalize Rome's defunct LEO Penicillin Campus through an interior fit-out.
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2019-2020
Using statewide eviction data to understand the prevalence, patterns, and causes of evictions in Michigan, and provide policy recommendations for local courts, municipalities, funders, and state government.
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2019
A project examining challenges and identifying strategies forward for affordable housing in Detroit developed under the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit program.
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2019
A response to a public call for the transformation of Lincoln Square Mall in Urbana, Illinois, exploring the big-box store as a new type of municipal monumentality.
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2019
An installation in Materials & Applications new LA storefront, serving as a public forum for discussion on the role of architecture and art in the public sphere.
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2019
A mapping-based research and design project studying the digital divide in Detroit, focusing on internet access in the city's most disenfranchised neighborhoods.
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2019
Part of the 2018-19 Architecture Fellows Exhibition, this project interrogates the banality of the contemporary bathroom specification as a site for architectural and cultural innovation.
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2019
Secret Sky is the structural reworking of the barn to allow the sky to enter and pass through the building.
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2019
Winning design proposal from the international competition for the DIA Plaza in Detroit, Michigan, that seeks to unify 12 institutions and create an inclusive cultural district.
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2019
Oakridge Dental Center creates a unique and calming spatial experience for its patients and staff. Situated to preserve the large majority of a 2-acre wooded site, the stand-alone dental office encourages a spa-like experience even within its constrained project budget, and...
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2019-2020
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2019
Cannibal's Bath was a finalist for the 2019 MoMA PS1 annual Young Architects Program, reimagining how massive architectural elements could be redeployed and moved at the meager touch of a human.
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2019
The cabin sits on an elevated site overlooking Grand Traverse Bay, MI.
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2019
A study examining the causes and consequences of China's housing development shift, from a welfare housing system to a market-oriented housing industry.
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2019
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2018
A study leveraging the use of physical catenary and funicular modeling in conjunction with the precision of robotic concrete extrusion for the development of pattern-based thin concrete shells.
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2018
A new chapel extension for the St Mary Mercy Hospital in Livonia, Michigan, with carefully formed geometries and apertures to highlight and establish the space's programmatic functions and rituals.
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2018
A study on how seven US cities with post-industrial population loss have navigated governance challenges to implement green stormwater infrastructure on vacant land.
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2018
An article highlighting innovations in reclaiming space for housing, and offering innovative examples of affordable and efficient use of urban space in the US and abroad.
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2018
An immersive musical performance and site-specific installation that wrestles with the animate vitality of matter and the mounting hum of ecological anxiety. The performance was part of the Lincoln Center's 2018 Mostly Mozart Festival.
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2018
OFFICE-PARTY is not a proposal, but a data-driven condition of immaterial labor—flows of data, surveillance, and efficiency analytics demanded by corporate interests, managerial consultancies, and new technologies of production.
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2018
Twenty custom robotically printed megaphones that focus acoustic energy into hyper-directional streams. Megaphones were designed for composer Ashley Fure's "Filament" performance at the New York Philharmonic.