Bronx Education Network
Project Date | February 16, 2010
2009 Emerging New York Architects, Jury SelectionProject 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 [...]
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 [...]
Flatform Installation
Project Date | October 20, 2008
Museum of Modern Artnew 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, NYFebruary 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 ConditionsThe 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 [...]
GSAPP Trusset
Project Date | October 25, 2006
Trusset Installation for GSAPP 125th AnniversaryLow 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 [...]
Category: Built Projects, Exhibition
Tags: algorithm > aluminum > new york > space frame > structure > system
Tags: algorithm > aluminum > new york > space frame > structure > system