São Paulo Architecture Experiment
Project Date | August 16, 2010
ISBN: 978-85-62906-01-5
The book, São Paulo Architecture Experiment (SPAE) had a preview launch August 11, 2010 in Berlin, Germany, which will be followed by the official launch in São Paulo. I worked as lead designer on the book, which is a collaboration between Columbia University’s S.L.U.M. Lab in New York (directed by Urban Think Tank) and [...]
S.L.U.M. Lab Newspaper 2010
Project Date | April 19, 2010
The 2010 S.L.U.M. Lab newspaper contains articles by American and Brazilian architects, urbanists, economists, and professors, relative to the state of architecture and politics in São Paulo, Brazil, followed by documentation of research projects by Columbia University students in 12 favela (slum) sites in São Paulo. The student projects focus on re-thinking slum upgrading designs [...]
Bronx Education Network
Project Date | February 16, 2010
2009 Emerging New York Architects, Jury Selection
Project Team:
Zachary Aders, Architect, New York + Iris Wijn, Urban Designer, Netherlands
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 the topographically-introverted community to extend its [...]
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 [...]
Tags: algorithm > aluminum > new york > space frame > structure > system
Flexwall Installation
Project Date | November 30, 2005
Installation in Phoenix, AZ, November 2005
Prototype for a plastic modular wall / screen system.