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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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2020Design 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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2019McLain 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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2019A 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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2019A proposal seeking to revitalize Rome's defunct LEO Penicillin Campus through an interior fit-out.
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2019-2020Using 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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2019A 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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2019A 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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2019An 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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2019A 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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2019Part 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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2019Secret Sky is the structural reworking of the barn to allow the sky to enter and pass through the building.
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2019Winning 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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2019Cannibal'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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2019A small vacation home for a family of four on a secluded site in Northern Michigan.
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2019A 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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2018A 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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2018A 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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2018An 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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2018An 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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2018OFFICE-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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2018Twenty 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.
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2018A 2019 ACSA Faculty Design Honorable Mention, Image Matters is a project interrogating the question: if images are now a ubiquitous part of our material world, what is the materiality of images?
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2018-2019Robotic Needle Felting is a novel additive manufacturing technique for nonwoven textiles.
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2018A project that reimagines timber construction by reconsidering the tree crotch, a typically disregarded part of the tree, yet presents opportunities for new joinery methods due to its natural bifurcating structure.
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2018-presentCombo-Nest is a material system that allows for complex timber space frames, prototyped in real scale to advance the thesis of discrete architecture as a cooperative strategy.
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2018-2019An exhibition at the A+D Museum in LA prototyping an assembly system of architectural elements that, after use, can be disassembled and returned into circulation.
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2018Careful Crates is a mixed-media project exploring shipping and returns as a cultural and physical contemporary phenomena.
