zachary aders

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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 [...]

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 from the USA, working in Sao Paulo, Brazil. This website will be UNDER CONSTRUCTION for a while, with glitches guaranteed.

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