zachary aders

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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 [...]

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 [...]

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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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