U-SoA Fall 2022 Final Reviews

Atelier Bow-Wow, NIKE Miyashita Park, Tokyo, Axonometric drawing       

Description
Currently, more than half of the world’s population lives in cities.  It is projected that by 2050 an additional 2.5 billion people will migrate to urban areas across the globe.  How we build new cities and adapt the current patterns of those that exist, will be at the forefront of the critical questions facing our society.  Additionally, the environment is a complex collection of intricacies that are shaped by policy. These policies impact the architecture, urbanism and communities upon which they are enacted.

The challenge of building smarter and more sustainable cities is a complex endeavor; and yet several key issues rise to the surface including: race and ethnicity, the understanding and preservation of the natural environment and its ecological patterns; the creation of equitable transportation networks that provide a multiplicity of experiences such as walking, biking, and public transportation; the adaptive re-use of existing buildings and infrastructure; and the integration of mixed-use and mixed-income environments capable of supporting more dynamic and vibrant societies.  

ARC 203, the third in a sequence of ten design studios at the University of Miami School of Architecture, focuses on the relationship between architecture and the built environment.  The studio stressed the topics of equitable design, regulatory contexts, urban resilience, building adaptation, and the impacts of climate change and sea-level-rise on our communities. 

Assignments and workshops were designed to build an understanding of what this might mean at both a personal and communal level.  A series of site visits, analytical drawings, and workshops provided a platform for the exploration and acquisition of knowledge in this field. 

Faculty
Germane Barnes, Coordinator
Juan Alayo
Claudia Ansorena
Rogelio Cadena
Alice Cimring
Maria Flores
Larissa Sherbakova
Sara Velasquez
Yasmine Zeghar

Time
9:05 am-12:00 pm

Locations
Barnes - Murphy A
Ansorena - Building 48 Third Floor
Alayo - Murphy Exterior Patio
Cadena – Murphy C Interior
Cimring – Murphy D Interior
Flores – Murphy E Interior 
Sherbakova – Murphy B Interior 
Zeghar – Building 49 Interior

Student Names
Germane Barnes' Section
Yash Agarwal
Justin Ammaturo
Bianca Bernstein
Tyson Hanning
Carlos Hernandez
Katherine Kuang
Gianna Novello
Riley Oram
Grace Paliseno
Sophia Palomino
Nefele Talavera
Nicholas Tournour

Juan Alayo's Section
Josh Carlson
Cameron Cathey
Lisa Chen
Grace Mikrut            
Courtney Pappas
Benjamin Pollak
Lorenzo Rosso-Mai
Samantha Schwartz
Maxim Waters
Caitlin Westring
Diego Zubillaga-Chavez        

Claudia Asorena's Section
Karla Fidalgo
Luisa Hernandez-Arboleda
Giovanna Imperiale
Nisan Korkmaz
Nathan Larabee
Jayson Moron
William Nicholson
Cade Odom
Kasey Ruiz
Jillian Saloma
Ashley Ward

Rogelio Cadena's Section  
Elizabeth Agurto
Ali Alnejadah
Catherine Calhoun
Eliana Cortes-Schiffbauer
Christopher Fischer-Hylton
Joshua Izen
Matthew Jarmon
Henry Lewiston
Pablo Vera
Sage Zheng
Harry Zurcher

Alice Cimring's Section
Diego Ascanio
Noah Cassius
Jessica Hutchinson
Emery Medlock
Madeline Meyer
Lucia "Lucy" Miller
Robert Sims-Dubon
Gabrielle Standfield
Patrick Talento
Sofia Urday

Maria Flores's Section
Behbehani "Nouf" Behbehani
Andrea Benhamron
Payton Broadwell
Jaylin Cole
Brennan Cook
Christiana Domosaru
Alina Guzman-Azocar
Justin Jayne
William Minchala
Deirdre Nash
Aaron Parks

Larissa Sherbakova's Section
Katerina del Canal 
Bianca Del Valle          
Matthew Gaynor
William Hammer
Giancarlo Joyner
Lucas Lowder
Elba Mota
Alec Rodriguez
Shari Soavi
Emily Solis
Kylie Spakausky

Sara Velasquez's Section
Kate Camphausen
Taylor Dutil 
Abdulwahab Eisa
Jennifer Mitchell
Gabriela Paredes
Ryan Phelps
Matthew Sebiri
Ben Skavnak
Valentina Urbicain
Naz Usman
Gardner Wilburn

Yasmine Zeghar's Section
Fabio Cesaroni
Nelson Fernandez
Sarah Hernandez
Tomas Hudson
Ana Montes
Carolyn Simmons
Vero Vilato
Kendal Wellbrook
Lilyana Zuniga-Hernandez

Environments of Exchange: Architecture as Process
The introduction to the M.Arch. 3-yr core sequence, this studio is concerned with the relationships between context, various publics, and the collective experience within an environment, natural or built. Tasked with the design of a new facility that aims to increase community-building programming and educational offerings at Miami’s Alice Wainwright Park, students were asked to consider how their design both limits and facilitates exchange—between people, of material goods, and of knowledge. Lastly, the studio interrogates design agency and how architecture can operate as a conceptual apparatus that carries and expresses meaningful ideas that affect how we live in and perceive the world. 

Faculty
Cynthia Gunadi

Time
9:05 am-6:20 pm

Location
Murphy B

Student Names
Noelle Benae Davis
Wren Parkhill Ferris
Elizabeth Maria Gabriele
Vassilios Georgakopoulos
Arie Nathan Haddad
Naomie Najsia Payen
Nicolas Pinzon Granados
Jadian Antonique Ricketts
Allyson Marie Smith
Caroline Eaton Turino

Design Literacy: Assembling Building Language

“Architecture has a complex character, because on the one hand it creates the physical world we live in. It’s an undeniable part of reality, manifests a physical presence, and shapes urban spaces. On the other hand, architecture, just like art, literature and cinema, has a strongly narrative character. As designers, we tell stories through space and material.” -- Christ and Gantenbein, Interview 23.11.16

The design studio ARC 607_Design Literacy: Assembling Building Language serves as the first course and single core studio, one advanced elective studio, and a thesis project in the U-SoA Advanced Placement M.Arch I AP program. As such, this course serves as an in-depth investigation into the application of material languages and material assemblies into the construction of buildings-but, above all, a critical discourse on the interactions of the building and building processes to people, climate, resources and culture. Within this discourse, a range of architectural conventions and typologies will be introduced, explored, and confronted. The studio will serve as a call to awareness; a heightened and focused sense of observation, experimentation and provocation will be nurtured. The pedagogical objective is the continued, individual development of architectural process and provocation fostered through conceptual and critical conversations, and implemented through the application of fundamental tools of the architect’s craft in relation to tectonic strategies, building assemblies and material languages.

The course is composed of two project prompts: Operative Surfaces + Domesticity+

The first design prompt, Operative Surfaces is an urban intervention situated at the edge of Miami’s Coconut Grove and Biscayne Bay and focuses on the activation of an isolated public node through programmatic interventions of public play, swim, learn, and recreate. Projects will engage the ground topography + bathymetry plane through techniques of: anchoring, floating, carving, stilting, and/or expanding to activate the site. 

The second design prompt, Domesticity+ addresses the interrelationships of a building, its context, and the defined program of domesticity. Through independent precedent studies, students will research an assigned urban and housing conditions, learning through the evaluation of other architectures and architects. These analyses will serve as the point of departure for students to design a domestic intervention that addresses local contexts, cultural complexities, and academic rigors at the Northwest quadrant of Chicago’s Illinois Institute of Technology.

Faculty
Shawna Meyer
Morgan Graboski

Time
9:05 am-6:20 pm

Locations
Meyer – Murphy A 
Graboski – Murphy E
Glasgow, (in the event Murphy is unavailable)

Student Names
Paria Bahmani
Roberto Borberg
John Edward Carlisle
Drew Gordon Dunphy
Adriana Garcia
Alexander Joshua Glass
Soraya Maria Hasbun Zamora
Quan Le
Mia Mackowski
Maritere Rodriguez
Delaney Skelly
Kiera M Tucker
McKenzie Higgins Waldron
Alexa Jill White
Kevin Harrison Wright
Jacqueline Hope Zuckerbrod

Calle Ocho Project - Assignment #3
TRANSFORMATIONS: each studio section was managed as a professional atelier. Under the direction of faculty, each student produced one distinctive retrofit proposal for a segment of Miami-Dade County. These “acupunctural proposals” ranged from civic/domestic architectural interventions to urban design master plans. The eight unique segments followed Tamiami Trail | 8th Street | Calle Ocho from the Atlantic Ocean to the Everglades. The combination of student projects in each section became the master plan for that portion of territory; collectively, the eight master plans generated the general master plan for that section of Miami-Dade County. Students and Faculty assumed a sea-level-rise factor of six feet (6’).

Faculty
Jaime Correa, Coordinator
Christopher D'Amico
Cristina Canton
Rocco Ceo
Oscar Machado
Carie Penabad
Haleh Moghaddasi

Time
9:05 pm-12:00 pm

Locations
Correa/Penabad – Murphy A
D’Amico/Ceo – Murphy B
Victoria/Moghaddasi – Murphy E 
Canton/Machado – Murphy Exterior Walls/Design 195 A/B

Student Names
Jaime Correa’s Section
Daniela Abuchaibe
Mohammed Altawari
Lexine Arambulo
Gabriela Colado
Alana Cowan
Isabel Endara Motta
Sebastian Guerrero
Levi Hinkson
Josh Labrado
Bennett Miller
Sam Reisfeld
Dia Sorrentino
Judah Tahan

Christopher D'Amico’s Section
Carolina Abboud
Abdullah Al Najjar
Deyana Bonardi
Bailey Byers
Valeria Fernandez Guillen
Zion Hodge
Denise Huang
Smitty McKee
Mirna Obeid
AJ Ricco
Adriana Villela

Teofilo Victoria’s Section
Batool Alhazeem
Alyssa Alli-shaw
Mariam Bataineh
Luc Bennett
Lukas Brown
Nic Depasquale
Galina Dumov
Jordan Kekst
Jalen Reece
Layla Sapirstein
Tammy Trinh
Tyreke Walker

Cristina Canton’s Section
Jackson Bryant
Caro Caceres
Kamari Dawn
Adam D'Oliveira
Sophia Dominguez
Kolleen Ebert
Venaisa Hampton
Griffin Sharpe
Louis Siero
Rance Sopko
Marcos Tobi Recondo
Mercan Yanyali

Rocco Ceo’s Section
Brooke Bradford
Aidan Burke
Robbie Darling
Jessie Doleman
David Elias
Christopher Forwood
Dylan Hasler
Eva Klovatskiy
Robert Ohebshalom
Jiqing Sun
Gaberiel Tejada

Oscar Machado’s Section
Luciano Abadie
Marie Begley
Modjyana Dorcin
Darian Gomez
Owen Kellerman
Nicole Knopfholz Daitschman
Ainsley McMillan
Keira Risser
Lucas Slowik
Samantha Temple
Allie Twardowski
Matthew Vargas-Mejia

Carie Penabad’s Section
Brooke Benn
Kelly Carroll
Harrison Dunbar
Toby Faller
Matthew Justin
Facundo Macolini
Frankie Ottimo
Eduardo Pinto
Tamir Shazo
Divyashree Shrestha
Scott Wortman

Haleh Moghaddasi’s Section
Catalina Badilla
Tyler Cahill
Elif Erkoc
Taylor Ferrarone
Charlie Gaudette
Jesse Jones
Julia Kelly
Conrad Ontimara
Marielle Povinelli
Cooper Sharpe
Tyler Williams

Resilient Landscapes - ArquitectonicaGEO
This is an introductory course in landscape architectural design. Its primary goal is to challenge students to learn the fundamentals of landscape architecture and to develop sensitivity for outdoor environments.

This studio course offers a unique opportunity to learn from ArquitectonicaGEO, a Miami-based award-winning design firm specializing in landscape architecture, planning, and urban design.

Attributed to the climate change/sea level rise phenomenon and to respond to the need for developments to become resilient, ArquitectonicaGEO has had the opportunity in the last decade to develop the unique expertise in the design of resilient outdoor environments for a wide range of project typologies and scales. Some of the most notable projects that have been recently completed and that students may be familiar with include: University of Miami – Lakeside Village; Perez Art Museum Miami; Canopy Park Miami Beach; Brickell City Centre; and the PortMiami Tunnel.

Faculty
Laurinda Spear

Time
1:25 pm-6:20 pm

Location
Murphy B

Student Names
Tiffany Agam
Julia Borges Reis
Andrea Camere
Ckiara Ann Condezo
Myles Watson Eaddy
Gabriel Figueroa
Paul Fishel
Emma Alexandria Gerlach
Gianell Marie Gonzalez
Amanda Marie Guerrero
Kathleen Joanna Lockwood
Conor Leo Quigley
Shannon Carmin Stack
Juan Francisco Uria
AJ Zegans

Paramount Theater & Shops, Palm Beach Florida, Image: HABS

Traditional & Classical Design Studio
Paramount: Urban Dwellings within a Historic Core; Palm Beach, FL
The studio’s focus on innovative practice methods, aimed at improving the built environment while safeguarding human scale, health and cultural heritage with architectural and urban revitalization, shall be explored in proposals for the Redevelopment of the Paramount Theater & Shops Historic Building Site.  The design challenge is to replace the existing surface parking with urban dwellings that grow out of the history and urban fabric of Palm Beach; Strategies for Site Planning, Infrastructure and Varied Building Types based on evolving program requirements. Topics emphasized shall be programming, setting, site planning, typology and research methods and applications. Course goals and objectives include the integration of Traditional & Classical Architecture & Urban Design, in Theory and Practice, in order to examine architectural issues rationally and coherently, along with gathering and analyzing information about human needs and behavior in order to inform the design process. The studio project site is located at 139 N. County Road in Palm Beach Florida; on the site of the historic landmarked Paramount Theatre designed by Joseph Urban in 1926. To the south of the Theatre proper and on the street corner is an existing parking lot which will be the site for the studio.

Faculty
Frank Martinez
Michael McGrattan

Time
1:25 pm-6:20 pm

Locations
Murphy A/E

Student Names
Amy Margaret Agne
Iscio Javier Albir
Ziyi Chen
Ayca Erturk
Carson P. Hessler
Joshua Kaufman
Hope Elizabeth Kenny
Amber Elizabeth Kountz
Grace Levey
Ian Xavier Ondek
Carlos Enrique Santos Ortiz
Megan Eleanor Sheehan
Nina Tatiana Voith
Abdallah Ayman Ahmad Mohammed Zaidan
Harrison Phan Hieu Zaye

Introduction to Urban Design
Urban design combines the knowledge of a variety of disciplines, including planning, architecture, landscape architecture, traffic engineering, real estate development, finance, and political science. All of these informed the semester’s projects with site-specific concerns of environment, society, and economics, including climate and health. The studio introduced the principles, processes and practice of urban design through an iterative sequence of analysis and design.

Guided by classic texts, including the Charter of the the New Urbanism, students learned about place-making in neighborhood design, public space that invites pedestrian use, street sections and building types, along with the transect, the regulating plan and guidelines, and character illustrations.

Faculty
Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk

Time
1:25 pm-6:20 pm

Location
Murphy C

Student Names
Sophia Maria Benitez
Kelly Rae Brunkow
Teodoro Julian Bueres
Nathan Ben Yishai Dankner
Dario F. Gonzalez Bautista
Yuxin Hong
Andrey Alexander Nash
Jayvil Patel
Mikayla Rose Riselli
James Tyler Schmidt
John Wong

Design for Heroes
For the final project of this upper-level studio, the students have been asked to fully immerse themselves in a fictional world of their choice, based on specific movies, books, computer games or art pieces. Their task comprised of the creation or transformation of a built structure into a residential or mixed-use facility. Though presented also in the form of conventional 2D drawings, special emphasis was given to the ability to create visualizations that connect to the visual language and narrative of the chosen reference. This final project, developed over six weeks, follows an analytic phase, during which the students investigated the role of space and architecture in cinematographic work, including movies such as “Parasite”, “The Passenger”, “Blade Runner” and “The Grand Budapest Hotel”. 

Faculty
Eric Firley

Time
1:25 pm-6:20 pm

Location
Cosford Cinema B

Student Names
Megan Ray Barrett
Ryan Jacob Berman
Livia Brodie
Zachary Cronin
Runyu Da
Kari Ellen Grindel
Daley Sprintz Hall
Mahlia Jenkins
Dominic Andrew Lanctot
Katherine Grace Lesh
Guang Liang
Yuhang Liu
Farha Jalal Reshamwala
Daniel Sicorsky-Brener
Zeyu Zhang

Calle Ocho Project - Assignment #3
TRANSFORMATIONS: each studio section was managed as a professional atelier. Under the direction of faculty, each student produced one distinctive retrofit proposal for a segment of Miami-Dade County. These “acupunctural proposals” ranged from civic/domestic architectural interventions to urban design master plans. The eight unique segments followed Tamiami Trail | 8th Street | Calle Ocho from the Atlantic Ocean to the Everglades. The combination of student projects in each section became the master plan for that portion of territory; collectively, the eight master plans generated the general master plan for that section of Miami-Dade County. Students and Faculty assumed a sea-level-rise factor of six feet (6’).

Faculty
Jaime Correa, Coordinator
Christopher D'Amico
Cristina Canton
Rocco Ceo
Oscar Machado
Carie Penabad
Haleh Moghaddasi

Time
9:05 pm-12:00 pm

Location
Glasgow Hall

Student Names
Jaime Correa’s Section
Daniela Abuchaibe
Mohammed Altawari
Lexine Arambulo
Gabriela Colado
Alana Cowan
Isabel Endara Motta
Sebastian Guerrero
Levi Hinkson
Josh Labrado
Bennett Miller
Sam Reisfeld
Dia Sorrentino
Judah Tahan

Christopher D'Amico’s Section
Carolina Abboud
Abdullah Al Najjar
Deyana Bonardi
Bailey Byers
Valeria Fernandez Guillen
Zion Hodge
Denise Huang
Smitty McKee
Mirna Obeid
AJ Ricco
Adriana Villela

Teofilo Victoria’s Section
Batool Alhazeem
Alyssa Alli-shaw
Mariam Bataineh
Luc Bennett
Lukas Brown
Nic Depasquale
Galina Dumov
Jordan Kekst
Jalen Reece
Layla Sapirstein
Tammy Trinh
Tyreke Walker

Cristina Canton’s Section
Jackson Bryant
Caro Caceres
Kamari Dawn
Adam D'Oliveira
Sophia Dominguez
Kolleen Ebert
Venaisa Hampton
Griffin Sharpe
Louis Siero
Rance Sopko
Marcos Tobi Recondo
Mercan Yanyali

Rocco Ceo’s Section
Brooke Bradford
Aidan Burke
Robbie Darling
Jessie Doleman
David Elias
Christopher Forwood
Dylan Hasler
Eva Klovatskiy
Robert Ohebshalom
Jiqing Sun
Gaberiel Tejada

Oscar Machado’s Section
Luciano Abadie
Marie Begley
Modjyana Dorcin
Darian Gomez
Owen Kellerman
Nicole Knopfholz Daitschman
Ainsley McMillan
Keira Risser
Lucas Slowik
Samantha Temple
Allie Twardowski
Matthew Vargas-Mejia

Carie Penabad’s Section
Brooke Benn
Kelly Carroll
Harrison Dunbar
Toby Faller
Matthew Justin
Facundo Macolini
Frankie Ottimo
Eduardo Pinto
Tamir Shazo
Divyashree Shrestha
Scott Wortman

Haleh Moghaddasi’s Section
Catalina Badilla
Tyler Cahill
Elif Erkoc
Taylor Ferrarone
Charlie Gaudette
Jesse Jones
Julia Kelly
Conrad Ontimara
Marielle Povinelli
Cooper Sharpe
Tyler Williams

Project #3: Brasilia –  The Modernist Superblock Reconsidered
ARC 305 expands the scope and scale of design from previous studios to consider how buildings are placed in relationship to one another within the framework of a city.  Students will acquire knowledge through lectures, workshops, exercises and projects that focus on the fundamental elements that constitute cities such as streets, blocks, public spaces, and transportation.  Furthermore, students will research and apply relevant regulatory zoning information such as building placement, density, parking and massing restrictions to their design projects. The final project of the semester, and the project featured during the final review period, is an examination of the Brasilia Superblock.

An analysis of Brasilia leads to many remarkable observations.  It is simultaneously memorable yet incapable of producing any sense of urbanity.  The current development of the superblock in Brasilia has produced a city without blocks, a city without corners, and a city without intersections.  Brasilia is the most complete example of the Modern City in the world with a unique balance of monument and fabric.  Although seemingly conceived of by an entirely different set of principles from lively pre-industrial cities, including the country’s former capital, Rio de Janeiro, it nonetheless similarly establishes the “neighborhood,” as the repetitive unit of growth upon which the city is built.  The Brasilia superblock is complete with commercial and residential uses juxtaposed with strategically placed public buildings expressing individual creatively in the form of Civic Art.  However, the vitality felt at the ubiquitous street-level cafeteria or “Boteco” in Rio de Janeiro is noticeably missing, causing Brasilia to have developed the reputation as being lifeless and dull.  The limited variety of housing options and relatively low density within the “Plano Piloto” has made living within the city unattainable for most and therefore necessitating the manifestation of supporting satellite cities with modest housing prices.  The study of Brasilia is a unique opportunity to reassess the theoretical construct of the “Modernist City” by introducing a typological vocabulary of building, or “kit of parts,” compatible with the existing.  A subsequent platting of unbuilt land which reinforces a logical block layout will allow development to occur at all scales and give rise to Brasilia’s original intention as the classless city. 

In this exercise, students will endeavor to analyze the urban morphology of the Brasilia superblock, and the associated building typologies found within, and reinterpret these forms into the design of a compatible multi-use, multi-income neighborhood.  Diagrams, plans, models and three-dimensional graphics will be the minimum project requirements.

Faculty
Steven Fett, Coordinator
Patirki Astirraga
Alejandro Branger
Juan Calvo
Carolina Calzada
Maria de Leon Fleites
Pedro Munarriz
Ramon Trias
Veruska Vasconez

Time
9:05 am-12:00 pm

Locations
Fett – Pentland
Calzada/Fleites – Murphy Exterior Walls/Design Studio 195 A/B 
Munarriz/Calvo – John Hochstim Commons at Murphy
Jorge Hernandez – Pentland
Branger/Astigarraga – Murphy B
Vasconez/Trias– Murphy A/E

Student Names
Steven Fett’s Section
Aaron Baxt
Julio Brea
Alyssa Garcia
Sebas Hernandez
Abdulaziz Jawher
Mariam Khadr
Meghan Mahoney
Isha Patel
Anna Puente
Olivia Speaks
Matthew Trebra
Yanitza Velez
Angela Wilk

Patirki Astirraga’s Section
Latifa Alfalah
Raghad Alqertas
Khalil Bland
Leah Culbert
Benjamin Darby
Antonio Del Toro
Carolina Gonzalez
Andrea Hernandez
Nicole Kertznus
Vanessa Lopez-Trujillo
Emma Catherine Przybylo
Blake Weldon

Alejandro Branger’s Section
Michelle Akl
Margaret Barrow
Sophia Emanuel
Mary Gorski
Liam Green
Jacob Nussbaum
Carlo Paz
Michelle Saguinsin
Hailey Scarantino
Vivian Smith
Roland Stafford
Aiden Surman

Juan Calvo’s Section
Samuel Carter
Michelle Ceballo
Paris James
Bryson Leonard
Angela Mesaros
Danielle Natale
Sofia Paniagua
Shariq Ramsubhag
Andrew Rosenberg
Elisabeth Schnell
Sebastian Serrano
Cailley Slaten 

Carolina Calzada’s Section
Roee Aviv
Josefina Caceres
Benjamin Callanan
Alexandra Ducas
Ana Jouvin
Marielle Koeppen
Celeste Landry
Defne Oezdursun
Mason Rape
Maria Saldivar Sandoval
Christopher Stinson
Benito Zapata

Maria de Leon Fleites’s Section
Daniella Bueso Flefil
Ashley Collins
Peter De Leon
Tatiana Gaviria Cardenas
Ciara Joseph
Julian Karam
Rim Khayata
Luiggi Landetta
Malachi Matthews
Andrew Price
Bennet Resnick
Jillian Tarini

Pedro Munarriz’s Section
Adeline Angelino
Dilianis Arenas
Carlos Arrinda Ulivi
George Elliott
Daniel Ferrer
Christina Gallarello
Ahmad Jamal
Daniel Kurland
Yamaris Martinez
Samantha Nowak
Tate Nowell
Melanie Plutsky

Ramon Trias’s Section
Yousif Abdulhasan
Farhan Ali Barmare
Andrea Baussan
Jesper Brenner
Lara Connolly
Alex Miller
Lares Monge
William Perik
Laura Petrillo
Michael Roldan Pico
Thomas Tierney
Sophia Tosti

Veruska Vasconez’s Section
Karla Alarcon Lacayo
Catalina Cabral-Framinan
Aidan Davis
Jacob Davis
Franco Ferreira De Melo
Diego Horta
Matthew Jaramillo
Santiago Krossler
Katherine Lindsey
Elise Palenzuela
Mykayla Pauls
Hamza Waris
Xinrong "Cindy" Ye

Aerial map of Biscayne National Park. Photo credit: earthobservatory.nasa.gov 

Preservation Studio: Constellations of Interpretation and Stewardship – The Boundaries of Biscayne Bay National Park 
This studio explored the role that architecture plays in the interpretation and stewardship of natural and cultural resources. It focused on whole place preservation, where the line between edifice and environment is effaced. Our site is the very shoreline of Biscayne Bay National Park, which includes the third largest coral reef on Earth. The Park’s boundary is graced with a constellation of historic sites that are either National Landmarks or listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Together, these sites define a perimeter of cultural resources that will be envisioned as entry points to the Park. These places are public and of extraordinary significance to the region: the Miami Circle, Miami Marine Stadium, Vizcaya Museum and Gardens, the Lighthouse at Bill Baggs State Park, the Deering Estate, Matheson Hammock State Park, and the Biscayne National Park Welcome Center.

The studio program designed a series of interpretive and educational gateways to the Park. The very architecture of these thresholds will comment on the role of the cultural-natural unity of this larger environmental heritage of South Florida. The Studio visited all of the boundary sites and a coral reef restoration facility in the Florida Keys. Students collectively engaged in research and work in teams on one of the above-mentioned sites. The projects were brought together into a series of comprehensive drawings that illustrate the thesis of this studio. Should the existing Park boundary be re-drawn? Is the National Marine Sanctuary of the Florida Keys the appropriate level of protection and categorization? Could the entire ecosystem from Miami to Dry Tortugas be considered for protection?

Faculty
Jorge Hernandez

Time
9:05 am-12:00 pm

Location
Pentland

Student Names
Lilly Acosta
Annsley Montgomery Barton
Tyler James Dowd
Lauren Elia
Mariana Fleites
Tais Hamilton
Blaise Lowen
Erika Melissa Orellana
Kayla Marie Rembold
Connor Stevens
Jaclyn Faye Tom
Nicole Alana Trujillo
April Vasquez
Kevan Michael Washington
Isabella Alejandra Zayas

Innovative Design Towards Affordable Housing
This design studio focused on new construction methods in order to reduce construction costs in an effort to lower the deficiency in affordable housing.  The studio collaborated with Avra Jain’s Vagaband Group, renowned developers in the South Florida Market. Five lots granted by the county may be potentially developed using student designs. Students would be given design credit, as a part of the overall team. 

According to a new research report by Apartment List, a rental listing company, Florida leads the nation in housing unaffordability with the percentage of renters — 56.5% — who spend 30 percent or more of their income on housing. The high cost-burden rate is worse in the state’s major metropolitan areas. For example, 62.7% of renters in Miami are spending half of their income or more on housing, the highest percentage of the nation’s 100 largest metro areas, the report found. 

Faculty
David Trautman
Avra Jain

Time
1:25 pm-6:20 pm

Location
Murphy B

Student Names
Nicholas M. Amadori
Daniela Barbano
Estefania Bourgy
Sacha Aina Braggs
Vanessa De Los Angeles Crespo
Wentai Cui
Nicole Cristina Garcia-Tunon
Ana Mavi Gutierrez
Olha Khymytsia
Flint R. Porter
Morgan Isabel Rapp
Quinn Palmer Riesch
Shea Elizabeth Stuyvesant
Emmaus Yonas

ARCHIVO BARRAGÁN
Studio Sauter von Moos
Luis Barragán is widely recognized as the most significant Mexican architect of the 20th century, having had profound influence upon generations of architects throughout the world. His work has been called minimalist but is nonetheless sumptuous in color and texture; it carries an air of timeless secrecy and magical enchantment. Pure planes, be they vertical walls of stucco or horizontal surfaces of water, are his main compositional elements to dissolve the limits between the built and the unbuilt, the room and the garden.

Although he was laureated with the Pritzker Price in 1980, Mexican magnates and institutions showed no interest in maintaining his archives after his death in 1988. Thus, in 1994, New York art dealer Max Protetch sold the estate’s massive collection and copyrights to Rolf Fehlbaum, the head of Vitra, a Swiss furniture company. Consequently, Barragán’s work moved from what many believe is its rightful home in Mexico to Basel, Switzerland, making it difficult for scholars, both Mexican and international, to access the material. We will take this narrative of the ‘lost archive’ as a starting point to propose an alternative design to house the Archivo Barragán in Mexico City.

Beyond using this project as an opportunity to deeply engage with Barragán’s work and more broadly Mexico’s highly sophisticated building culture, this will also be a chance to fundamentally investigate the themes of storing, documenting, and exhibiting architecture.

Faculty
Florian Sauter Von Moos
Charlotte Von Moos

Time
1:25 pm-6:20 pm

Locations
Murphy A/E

Student Names
Mohammad A A A Alramadan
Jack Kenneth Chazotte
Juan Jose Chinchilla
Gabriela De Camarero Perez
Sophia Elwaw
Didem Macey Erbilen
Emma Simone Friderici
Heber Jared Hernandez
John Kovacic
Andrea Maria Lira
Diego Alejandro Macia
Maia Jade Marshall
Benjamin James Martin
Andrea Martinez
Hannah Meyer
Harrison Mark Neuman
Erik Olliges
Joao Eduardo Llano Ribeiro
Carolina Rodriguez
Maria Elisa Rosiles
Benjamin Alex Smith
Brandon Rourke Soto
Rebecca Mason Stewart
Allison Dorothy Thiel
Michaela Jeann Urteaga
Anthony Louis Venant
Leanne Vera
Krista Wise

Mercado de Frutas, Noe Leon, 1969

COMMON GROUND: A Public Building for Barranquilla
The Vernacularology Studio is preocupied with the extent to which the ordinary and the coloquial resonate in architecture and the construction of the city today. Seen through the broader lens of history, the formal and the informal city have always been inextricably linked, sharing many of the salient characteristics that have defined urban patterns for millennia. The splendor of contemporary Venice began with a series of wooden shacks built upon a desolate expanse of water, reed and marsh that the first Venetians chose as their own to protect its inhabitants from the fury of Attila the Hun’s attack. New York City, the greatest American modern metropolis, was once a small commercial outpost of irregularly shaped streets facing the harbor; and London, one of the world’s most beautiful cities and leading industrial centers was once a conglomeration of primitive wood huts adjacent to the great Thames River.  These cities are examples of “negotiated, ever-changing designs” richly layered and emblematic of the shared cultural values of a given people. The premise of this studio’s research will be focused on the notion that the urban composition of contemporary informal cities, reveal amongst other things the permanent characteristics that have defined cities throughout the centuries including: the neighborhood, the street, the dwelling, the block, public open space etc. Suggesting that in time, our present day, impoverished, informal cities may become the great cities of the future. If one accepts this reality, what is then the role of the architect in the building of the contemporary informal city?

This semester is part of a compendium of studios that have analyzed Latin American informal cities through empirical, on- the-ground investigations. This research has revealed that one of the most valuable contributions the architect can make in the development of contemporary informal cities is the development of public buildings and the design of of the public realm. These projects are beyond the scale of an individual dwelling and the capacities of local dwellers to build incrementally. Rather, these larger projects require greater orchestration (both physically and economically) and are suited to both the expertise and training of the architect. To this end, students will be asked to design a Public Buildingr’ for an informal settlement in Barranquilla, Colombia. While the building is intended to provide vital services for the community, the ultimate goal will be to provide a structure of meaning that is capable of expressing the shared values of this community.

Faculty
Adib Cure

Time
1:25 pm-6:20 pm

Location
Pentland

Student Names
Alana Jasmin Bernard
Gray Covington Burke
Brianna Marie Frank
Afomia Tekalgne Hunde
Nicholas Cameron Ingold
Daniela Jalfon
Kevin Edward Johnson
Diana Lissette Juarez-Montano
Teymour Khoury
Teagan Connelly Polizzi
Yara Mohammad Ali A Quteineh
Peiyang Sang
Julia Teig
Anna Isabel Vales Zauner
Christelle Genevieve Vincent

IN SEARCH OF AN ICONIC SOLUTION
to the problems of infrastructure, heat island effect, and sun energy collection
FOR MIAMI
The emphasis of the studio is to tackle the long existing problem in Miami of urban infrastructure understood as outside of the realm of architecture. Students will re-design the public transportation hub at the Omni Station Bus Loop, to provide the necessary amenities and comfort levels according to 21st century standards. The importance of the station, as the connector of the metro rail, via metro mover to the bus lines servicing a vast area of the city, offers an opportunity to critically assess the programmatic requirements of such an infrastructural intervention.

In addition, the need to provide a comfortable setting for urban travelers, would require a sensitive solution to the growing problem of heat island effect. The cause is not the sun, but the vast amount of exposed asphalt and concrete. Because the sun rays will inexorably continue to illuminate our planet, they are an endless source of energy. Each project will be required to search for inventive solutions to the plausible generation of energy on site while protecting the urban realm from direct exposure to the sun.

Miami is a prominent tropical metropolis that has built its character on the exuberant natural and geographical setting, as well as imported building traditions  compatible with existing climatic conditions. At the scale of the new metropolis, one could argue that Miami has not yet been able to articulate its distinguishing image. This public infrastructure intervention will give students an opportunity to reflect upon what that is, and to propose an iconic solution.

Faculty
Edgar Sarli
Jose Gelabert-Navia

Time
1:25 pm-6:20 pm

Location
Old Gallery

Student Names
Fahad O A S Alzaid
Crispin Michael Blamphin
Emily Anne Dietzko
Meghan Angela Dombroski
Sean Christopher Festa
Rosana Galban
Justin Alec Heitner
Nico Elliot Machado Rusconi
Sidney Marques
Christopher Scott Muchow
Isabella Pedrosa
Nandha Ravi
Fransisco Alejandro Sanabria
Sam Tsirulnikov
Emel Yilmaz

An Aquatics Center @ Sutro’s Baths, Point Lobos, San Francisco 

“The Sutro baths and casino out on the beach, just north of Sutro Heights, are rapidly nearing completion.  There is no bathing establishment in this country as large, as complete, as convenient, or as luxuriously appointed.”
-- Excerpted from The Morning Call, San Francisco, Sunday, August 27, 1893

Adjacent to Point Lobos the northwestern headland of the San Francisco peninsula, is a bowl-shaped site of beguiling and captivating character, which cascades steeply down to the Pacific Ocean. In March 1896, Adolf Sutro, the former mayor, and wealthy real-estate entrepreneur opened a 150,000 SQ FT public bath, the largest since the Baths of Caracalla. Sutro’s included six saltwater pools with a capacity of 1.8 million gallons, a 2700-seat amphitheater and a 35,000 SQ FT museum of curios.  in 1966, after 80 years of variously successful service, Sutro’s fell to arson.  Since then, the ruins of the Bath’s foundations have inspired visitors.  The goal of the project is to recreate a public bathing facility at Point Lobos which recalls the essential experience of swimming at the site and makes visible the lasting historical significance of the ruins of Sutro’s expansive vision.

Faculty
Denis Hector

Time
11:00 am-2:00 pm

Location
Pentland

Student Names
Andrea Jahell Aguilar Ruiz
Sebastian Alberto Alarcon
Yusef Audeh
Felix Banuelos Sainz
Dagmar Paola Barron Nava
Maryam Basti
Maria Adalgisa Cannavo Violante
Eugenio Janeiro
Sophia Dae Rocha
Tatiana Alexa Rosello
Caroline Rebecca Rothschild
Romi Sofi
Alexandra Marie Wise

Description
This course presents design research processes fundamental to defining clear problems and architectural proposals. Through a series of exercises, presentations and conversations, students will learn to articulate and defend their interests and positions. Exercises will include literature research, precedent analysis, statement writing, site documentation, programming and diagramming. These avenues of inquiry will serve to provide both historical and critical context to students’ interests, connect them to relevant discourse, and help them clarify their own visions.

Faculty
Joachim Perez, Coordinator
Glenda Puente
Ruth Ron
Max Jarosz
Victor Deupi
Veruska Vasconez
Sophie Juneau
Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk
Ricardo Lopez

Time
All Day

Location
Pentland
Murphy/Korach (in the event Pentland is unavailable)

Student Names
Tiffany Agam
Isacio Javier Albir
Megan Ray Barrett
Estefania Bourgy
Caterina Cafferata
Andrea Camere
Wentai Cui
Myles Watson Eaddy
Gianell Marie Gonzalez
Kari Ellen Grindel
Ana Mavi Gutierrez
Tais Hamilton
Carson P. Hessler
Carolina Illera Barberi
Amber Elizabeth Kountz
Winston Lee
Kathleen Joanna Lockwood
Harrison Mark Neuman
Alexis Payton Pagano
Isabella Pedrosa
Flint R. Porter
Yara Mohammad Ali A Quteineh
Peiyang Sang
Zara Isabella Silva-Landry
Benjamin Alex Smith
Allison Dorothy Thiel
Juan Francisco Uria
Michaela Jeann Urteaga
Nina Tatiana Voith
Krista Wise
Michelle Arina Wright