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 [...]
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, 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 [...]
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.