zachary aders

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Bronx Education Network

Project Date | February 16, 2010

High Bridge Plan

Project Team:
Zachary Aders + Iris Wijn, Urban Designer, Netherlands
This entry won a Jury Selection in the 2009 Emerging New York Architects competition. Synopsis below:

Our title, “United Highbridge” is a human translation for strengthening the existing social network of the Highbridge neighborhood in the Bronx. Its a design about people rather than an icon.
This idea allows [...]

Utrecht Urban Planning

Project Date | September 3, 2009

At Urban Think Tank, I worked on the design team for the main exhibition in the Utrecht Biennale for Art + Architecture 2009. The proposal was an urban design for the neighborhood of Hoograven, specifying catalytic “hot spots” of housing, market, park, and sport facilities. Below are my main contributions. [more to come]

Hot Spot 1: [...]

Urban Farming Manhattan

Project Date | May 1, 2009

This is a proposal for a rethinking of the island of Manhattan, from a re-imagined past of the island with a park network based on the current city plan. After researching large scale utopian/dystopian projects of Constant, Archigram, Archizoom, Yona Friedman, Cedric Price, and others, my project proposes an architectural vision of Manhattan, suggesting juxtapositions [...]

Urban Farming São Paulo

Project Date | December 2, 2008

Brasil’s slum problem is well documented and known across an increasingly networked and informed world in all senses of globalization. Slums exist across the world, often completely disconnected from basic infrastructural services. Working under U-TT, the SLUM Lab is exploring multiple options in supporting the many challenges facing the neighborhood of Grotao, in Paraisopolis, Sao [...]

Flatform Installation

Project Date | October 20, 2008

Museum of Modern Art
new york, ny
20 july – 20 october 2008
photos by MFA
FlatForm wall installation for Marble Fairbanks Architects. This installation is a self-sustaining wall system where surface, pattern, and structure are parametrically linked, forming flat metal sheets into a self-supported wall. Flatform combines the constraints of material properties and pre-manufactured sizes with the flexibility [...]

NYU Ceiling

Project Date | August 12, 2008

For Marble Fairbanks Architects, I designed the perforation pattern for the ceiling in an interior office project for NYU, near Washington Square Park.

Ecological Proposal

Project Date | February 12, 2008

New York, NY
February 2008
Proposal : convert obsolete industrial infrastructure into urban forests, with planning determined by the instinctive “forces of nature”. No human contact is permitted for a minimum of 30 years.
The plan requires an initial human assistance of unskilled destruction of ground concrete and skilled partial destruction of building walls and [...]

Performative Housing

Project Date | December 1, 2007

Housing Rituals + Urban Conditions
The studio begun with studies of household rituals and their performative / experiential qualities. By studying the phenomenological qualities of daily rituals, a deeper understanding of the interface of action and environment can be achieved.
Filmatic studies of urban conditions in New York City complemented the household studies and connections between the [...]

Space Frame Research

Project Date | November 30, 2007

Studies from 2006-2007, of researching variations of irregular frame structures generated by self-organizing algorithms. Specific studies focused on programmatic integration, organizational methods, and structural optimization. Code was developed and models were integrated into programs for structural analysis. The images below were exhibited in Eindhoven, NL for Eindhoven University’s Tectonics 2007.

GSAPP Trusset

Project Date | October 25, 2006

Trusset Installation for GSAPP 125th Anniversary
Low Library, Columbia University
New York, NY
October 2006
with Columbia GSAPP students/faculty
Below is an installation of the Trusset, a space frame system developed by Phillip Anzalone and Cory Clark. Mark Collins and Toru Hasegawa developed a parametric space frame software, which formed the system of nodes, each having up to 8 connecting [...]

Flexwall Installation

Project Date | November 30, 2005

Installation in Phoenix, AZ, November 2005
Prototype for a plastic modular wall / screen system.

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I am an architectural designer, working in New York, USA and Sao Paulo, Brazil. This website will be UNDER CONSTRUCTION for a while, with glitches guaranteed.

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