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Shreyas Rao, BME Research Fellow, shows the cancer "super-attractor" in the NCRC on August 5, 2015.
The "super-attractor" is a device developed by a team of U-M researchers that acts like a sponge, attracting free-floating cancer cells during the early stages of cancer.
Photo: Joseph Xu, Michigan Engineering Communications & Marketing
The inside of the main concourse of the molecular beam epitaxy apparatus in the Gerstacker Building on August 3, 2015.
A blank plate is placed in this concourse and moves down the tunnel to an eventual growth chamber in which semiconductors coat the plate.
Photo: Joseph Xu, Michigan Engineering Communications & Marketing
Economic inequity and poverty are a daily reality for billions of people worldwide. Climate change and other impending crises threaten ecosystems and population centers across the planet. Each of these crises demands immediate attention, but they are often in conflict. Which takes precedence? How can we address them both?
On October 19, 2012, the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning held a one-day symposium featuring a series of round-table discussion and critical thinking. The sessions allowed to debate and discussion – Is sustainability socially just? Is social justice sustainable? Can we advance both, in both theory and reality?
Photo by Peter Smith, Peter Smith Photography
ESPN came to the University of Michigan today (July 14, 2008), on the eve of Art Fair, to film the 'TitleTown USA' segment on Ann Arbor, Michigan. Here are some photos of the festivities prior to the interview with alumnus and Heisman Trophy winner Desmond Howard (wearing the ivory shirt). There were many orientation tours for incoming freshman who probably were wonderfing what is going on!
Ana Hough, founder of A2 Yoga, leads a free community yoga class at A2 Yoga Works in Ann Arbor, MI on July 15, 2015.
The class is one of the recreational activities and social gatherings offered through Jetivity, a web platform devoted to getting people together started by College of Engineering alumnus.
Photo: Joseph Xu, Michigan Engineering Communications & Marketing
UNICEF #GoBlue - Weltkannerdag - Philharmonie - Luxembourg - Ville - Philharmonie - 17/11/2021 - photo: claude piscitelli
Historically, research and creative practice have been constructed as "opposites." This is not an unusual struggle in architecture schools, particularly in the context of a research university. This perceived tension between design and research is indicative of age-old anxieties within the architecture field to understand its nature as an "applied art." Design can be a purely creative activity not unlike creative practices in music and art. In other cases, design can be a purely problem solving activity, not unlike research in engineering and industrial production.
In its fourth year, University of Michigan Taubman College's Research Through Making (RTM) Program provides seed funding for faculty research, worked on by faculty, students and interdisciplinary experts. The exhibition presents tangible results of their collaborative work.
Research Through Making Installations:
- Electroform(alism): Masters, substrates and the rules of attraction
Jean-Louis Farges and Anya Sirota
- Making Nothing
McLain Clutter and Kyle Reynolds
- (DE)COMPOSING TERRITORY: Enclosure as a negotiation between bioplastics + environments
Meredith Miller
- Crease, Fold, Pour: Advancing Flexible Formwork with Digital Fabrication and Origami Folding
Maciej Kaczynski
- Platform for Architecture & Makin' It, A Situation Comedy
John McMorrough and Julia McMorrough
Photo by Peter Smith / Peter Smith Photography
Members of the UM Autonomy Team test their autonomous boat in the Lurie Reflecting Pool on June 26, 2015.
The team is two weeks out from national competition in Virginia.
Photo: Joseph Xu, Michigan Engineering Communications & Marketing
Looking back at the Big House - Michigan Stadium 3 of 3. West shot (#2) is very clear
NEW PICS 8/31/11 - Showing the stadium finished just before 2011 opening game against Western Michigan (See last 7 Pics - FULL SET)
Historically, research and creative practice have been constructed as "opposites." This is not an unusual struggle in architecture schools, particularly in the context of a research university. This perceived tension between design and research is indicative of age-old anxieties within the architecture field to understand its nature as an "applied art." Design can be a purely creative activity not unlike creative practices in music and art. In other cases, design can be a purely problem solving activity, not unlike research in engineering and industrial production.
In its fourth year, University of Michigan Taubman College's Research Through Making (RTM) Program provides seed funding for faculty research, worked on by faculty, students and interdisciplinary experts. The exhibition presents tangible results of their collaborative work.
Research Through Making Installations:
- Electroform(alism): Masters, substrates and the rules of attraction
Jean-Louis Farges and Anya Sirota
- Making Nothing
McLain Clutter and Kyle Reynolds
- (DE)COMPOSING TERRITORY: Enclosure as a negotiation between bioplastics + environments
Meredith Miller
- Crease, Fold, Pour: Advancing Flexible Formwork with Digital Fabrication and Origami Folding
Maciej Kaczynski
- Platform for Architecture & Makin' It, A Situation Comedy
John McMorrough and Julia McMorrough
Photo by Peter Smith / Peter Smith Photography
Historically, research and creative practice have been constructed as "opposites." This is not an unusual struggle in architecture schools, particularly in the context of a research university. This perceived tension between design and research is indicative of age-old anxieties within the architecture field to understand its nature as an "applied art." Design can be a purely creative activity not unlike creative practices in music and art. In other cases, design can be a purely problem solving activity, not unlike research in engineering and industrial production.
In its fourth year, University of Michigan Taubman College's Research Through Making (RTM) Program provides seed funding for faculty research, worked on by faculty, students and interdisciplinary experts. The exhibition presents tangible results of their collaborative work.
Research Through Making Installations:
- Electroform(alism): Masters, substrates and the rules of attraction
Jean-Louis Farges and Anya Sirota
- Making Nothing
McLain Clutter and Kyle Reynolds
- (DE)COMPOSING TERRITORY: Enclosure as a negotiation between bioplastics + environments
Meredith Miller
- Crease, Fold, Pour: Advancing Flexible Formwork with Digital Fabrication and Origami Folding
Maciej Kaczynski
- Platform for Architecture & Makin' It, A Situation Comedy
John McMorrough and Julia McMorrough
Photo by Peter Smith / Peter Smith Photography
Terry Shyu, MSE PhD Student and Graduate Research Assistant, shows a stretchable conductor made out of mesh structure of carbon nanotubes in the North Campus Research Complex in Ann Arbor, MI on June 1, 2015.
Shyu is part of a collaboration with Nicholas Kotov, Joseph B. and Florence V. Cejka Professor of Chemical Engineering; Sharon Glotzer, Stuart W. Churchill Collegiate Professor of Chemical Engineering; and Matt Shlian, Artist and Adjunct Lecturer in the School of Art & Design.
Shlian provided the inspiration for the nano structures with his nano-kirigami art that Glotzer built computer models from and Kotov and Shyu tested in lab.
Photo: Joseph Xu, Michigan Engineering Communications and Marketing
Historically, research and creative practice have been constructed as "opposites." This is not an unusual struggle in architecture schools, particularly in the context of a research university. This perceived tension between design and research is indicative of age-old anxieties within the architecture field to understand its nature as an "applied art." Design can be a purely creative activity not unlike creative practices in music and art. In other cases, design can be a purely problem solving activity, not unlike research in engineering and industrial production.
In its fourth year, University of Michigan Taubman College's Research Through Making (RTM) Program provides seed funding for faculty research, worked on by faculty, students and interdisciplinary experts. The exhibition presents tangible results of their collaborative work.
Research Through Making Installations:
- Electroform(alism): Masters, substrates and the rules of attraction
Jean-Louis Farges and Anya Sirota
- Making Nothing
McLain Clutter and Kyle Reynolds
- (DE)COMPOSING TERRITORY: Enclosure as a negotiation between bioplastics + environments
Meredith Miller
- Crease, Fold, Pour: Advancing Flexible Formwork with Digital Fabrication and Origami Folding
Maciej Kaczynski
- Platform for Architecture & Makin' It, A Situation Comedy
John McMorrough and Julia McMorrough
Photo by Peter Smith / Peter Smith Photography
Tao Wei, ChE PhD Student, synthesizes proteins in the NCRC on North Campus of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, MI on May 26, 2017.
Wei is part of Timothy Scott's, Assistant ChE Professor, laboratory that focuses on polymer synthesis. This device helps synthesize proteins quickly and efficiently.
Photo: Joseph Xu/Michigan Engineering Senior Producer, University of Michigan
Historically, research and creative practice have been constructed as "opposites." This is not an unusual struggle in architecture schools, particularly in the context of a research university. This perceived tension between design and research is indicative of age-old anxieties within the architecture field to understand its nature as an "applied art." Design can be a purely creative activity not unlike creative practices in music and art. In other cases, design can be a purely problem solving activity, not unlike research in engineering and industrial production.
In its fourth year, University of Michigan Taubman College's Research Through Making (RTM) Program provides seed funding for faculty research, worked on by faculty, students and interdisciplinary experts. The exhibition presents tangible results of their collaborative work.
Research Through Making Installations:
- Electroform(alism): Masters, substrates and the rules of attraction
Jean-Louis Farges and Anya Sirota
- Making Nothing
McLain Clutter and Kyle Reynolds
- (DE)COMPOSING TERRITORY: Enclosure as a negotiation between bioplastics + environments
Meredith Miller
- Crease, Fold, Pour: Advancing Flexible Formwork with Digital Fabrication and Origami Folding
Maciej Kaczynski
- Platform for Architecture & Makin' It, A Situation Comedy
John McMorrough and Julia McMorrough
Photo by Peter Smith / Peter Smith Photography
Historically, research and creative practice have been constructed as "opposites." This is not an unusual struggle in architecture schools, particularly in the context of a research university. This perceived tension between design and research is indicative of age-old anxieties within the architecture field to understand its nature as an "applied art." Design can be a purely creative activity not unlike creative practices in music and art. In other cases, design can be a purely problem solving activity, not unlike research in engineering and industrial production.
In its fourth year, University of Michigan Taubman College's Research Through Making (RTM) Program provides seed funding for faculty research, worked on by faculty, students and interdisciplinary experts. The exhibition presents tangible results of their collaborative work.
Research Through Making Installations:
- Electroform(alism): Masters, substrates and the rules of attraction
Jean-Louis Farges and Anya Sirota
- Making Nothing
McLain Clutter and Kyle Reynolds
- (DE)COMPOSING TERRITORY: Enclosure as a negotiation between bioplastics + environments
Meredith Miller
- Crease, Fold, Pour: Advancing Flexible Formwork with Digital Fabrication and Origami Folding
Maciej Kaczynski
- Platform for Architecture & Makin' It, A Situation Comedy
John McMorrough and Julia McMorrough
Photo by Peter Smith / Peter Smith Photography
U-M Facilities crews cut down trees on the North Campus Diag on May 18, 2015 as part of the North Campus Grove construction plan.
The Eda U. Gerstacker Grove will include new sidewalks, a paved plaza next to the Lurie Tower, an amphitheater, volleyball court, energy efficient lighting, and more than 180 additional trees in a rolling landscape.
Photo: Joseph Xu, Michigan Engineering Communications & Marketing
Bacteria Runs The World Workshop
Thursday Session 2
While bacteria are too small to be seen with the naked eye, these small and mighty organisms run this planet! They help us do everything from digest food to protect against drought. Discover how microbiologists and environmental engineers use bacteria to make our world a healthier place. You'll examine bacteria under a microscope and learn how they help make clean water.
Photo: Joseph Xu, Michigan Engineering Communications & Marketing
Historically, research and creative practice have been constructed as "opposites." This is not an unusual struggle in architecture schools, particularly in the context of a research university. This perceived tension between design and research is indicative of age-old anxieties within the architecture field to understand its nature as an "applied art." Design can be a purely creative activity not unlike creative practices in music and art. In other cases, design can be a purely problem solving activity, not unlike research in engineering and industrial production.
In its fourth year, University of Michigan Taubman College's Research Through Making (RTM) Program provides seed funding for faculty research, worked on by faculty, students and interdisciplinary experts. The exhibition presents tangible results of their collaborative work.
Research Through Making Installations:
- Electroform(alism): Masters, substrates and the rules of attraction
Jean-Louis Farges and Anya Sirota
- Making Nothing
McLain Clutter and Kyle Reynolds
- (DE)COMPOSING TERRITORY: Enclosure as a negotiation between bioplastics + environments
Meredith Miller
- Crease, Fold, Pour: Advancing Flexible Formwork with Digital Fabrication and Origami Folding
Maciej Kaczynski
- Platform for Architecture & Makin' It, A Situation Comedy
John McMorrough and Julia McMorrough
Photo by Peter Smith / Peter Smith Photography
Trebecca McDonald, Civil Engineering BSE Student, rides ones of her old AATA routes on March 26, 2015.
McDonald grew up in Ypsilanti, MI before an infrastructure began to develop in the community that allowed for people to commute to locations such as grocery stores and downtown. During the summer of 2012, McDonald rode the bus between her job in Ypsilanti, a calculus course she was taking at Washtenaw Community College, and her apartment on North Campus. The experience was humbling and opening, forcing McDonald to learn how to budget her time and self to various pursuits and passions, while opening her world up to a wide variety of people from different backgrounds.
Photo: Joseph Xu, Michigan Engineering Communications & Marketing
UNICEF #GoBlue - Weltkannerdag - Esch/Alzette - Hôtel de Ville - 16/11/2021 - photo: claude piscitelli
David Moore, ME MSE Student and GSI, helps ME 250 students understand the mechanics of a bike system in the GG Brown Building on March 11, 2015.
Photo: Joseph Xu, Michigan Engineering, Communications & Marketing
This event featured Architecture Chair John McMorrough in conversation with Jeffrey Kipnis (Professor of Architecture, The Ohio State University Knowlton School of Architecture), and Sylvia Lavin (Director of Critical Studies, Department of Architecture and Urban Design at UCLA).
Watch the discussion: vimeo.com/61530314
About the Exhibition:
The Piranesi Variations is a project for developed by the Yale School of Architecture for the 13th International Architecture Biennale in Venice. The project, developed by Professor Peter Eisenmann and his students, provides a new dimension, literally, to a landmark work by 18th-century engraver, mapmaker, and architect Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720–1778). Eisenman's students contributed historical analysis as a platform for three contemporary interpretations of Piranesi's drawing – one from Eisenman's own New York office, Eisenman Architects; a second from the architecture critic Jeffrey Kipnis of Ohio State University; and a third from architect Pier Vittorio Aureli of the Belgian office DOGMA. With access to Piranesi's original folio, housed in Yale's Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Eisenman's students "re-invented" Piranesi's Rome as a detailed gold-painted 3D-printed model at the scale of the original etching – the first of its kind.
This multipart endeavor focuses on Giovanni Battista Piranesi's 1762 "Campo Marzio dell'antica Roma," a folio of six etchings that depict his fantastical vision of what ancient Rome might have looked like, derived from years of archaeological and architectural research. Each of the models created for this exhibition is 8 x 10 feet at its base — double the size of the folio. Each revisits Piranesi's etchings, proposing answers to the inherent questions they raise about the relationship of architecture to ground, following the Biennale's theme of "Common Ground."
"The Piranesi Variations" is organized by the Yale School of Architecture, New Haven: in collaboration with Eisenman Architects, New York; DOGMA Architects, Brussels; and Jeffrey Kipnis, Jose Oubrerie, and Stephen Turk of The Ohio State University Knowlton School of Architecture, Columbus. "The Project of Campo Marzio" (Yale School of Architecture) is supported in part by Marshall Ruben and Carolyn Greenspan. "A Field of Diagrams" (Eisenman Architects) is supported in part by the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts. "The Piranesi Variations" was originally developed by Eisenman Architects as an invited participant in the 13th Architecture Biennale, Venice, Italy, 2012. The exhibition at Taubman College is generously supported by The Guido A. Binda Lecture and Exhibition Fund.
CARBON WOUND Lightweight Composites by Megha Chandrasekhar, Christopher Mascari, and Brandon Vieth
Lightness as described in the architectural discipline communicates different narratives. It could represent the mass of a body and its maneuverability through space, the amount of light that permeates or is reflected from a given surface defining its visual density, or reflect the economic and material flows associated with its conception. Lightness as described by Adriaan Beukers is the “trinity of material, concept and process.”
Our research trajectory utilizes a combination of fiber composites and robotic filament winding as a means to explore an essence of lightness. The use of carbon fiber filament and resin creates a medium with which material properties of strength and lightness can be explored. Computational analysis and scripting allow structures to be designed with locally tailored material properties capable of taking into account both the intensive and extensive forces of design. The use of filament as a base material eliminates the dependency on standardized dimensional stock and creates the opportunity for customization with no material waste. The automation process introduces a high level of precision and speed to the mass production of customizable form as an alternative to traditional methods of manufacturing and construction.
In architecture, where the performative is always in question, the role of the composite remains attuned to the "mud and straw" mentality as a standard method for achieving the ultimate material performance. While this age-old method responds to issues of the performative, advances in material and construction processes, should have architects questioning the “spatial” qualities exhibited through structural form. Concrete while strong and heavy is visually opaque, steel while strong is also heavy, however fiber wound composites are both strong and light and deliver both physically and visually. They offer the opportunity to blend attributes of lightness through material strength, formal concept and process with both structural and spatial qualities within a single material matrix providing new experiential possibilities.
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During their final year – known as the thesis year – architecture graduate students research a topic that culminates in a design project. The projects are exhibited just prior to graduation and reviewed by a panel of outside and faculty experts. One project from each studio is identified for Honors; these projects are on view over the summer in the College Gallery.
2013 Thesis Honors Projects by:
Megha Chandrasekhar, Pooja Dalal, Brittany Nicole Gacsy, Emily Kutil, Christopher Mascari, Dan McTavish, Hans Papke, Ariel Poliner, Nick Safley, Anna Schafferkoetter, and Brandon Vieth
Photo by Alex Jacque, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning
Historically, research and creative practice have been constructed as "opposites." This is not an unusual struggle in architecture schools, particularly in the context of a research university. This perceived tension between design and research is indicative of age-old anxieties within the architecture field to understand its nature as an "applied art." Design can be a purely creative activity not unlike creative practices in music and art. In other cases, design can be a purely problem solving activity, not unlike research in engineering and industrial production.
In its fourth year, University of Michigan Taubman College's Research Through Making (RTM) Program provides seed funding for faculty research, worked on by faculty, students and interdisciplinary experts. The exhibition presents tangible results of their collaborative work.
Research Through Making Installations:
- Electroform(alism): Masters, substrates and the rules of attraction
Jean-Louis Farges and Anya Sirota
- Making Nothing
McLain Clutter and Kyle Reynolds
- (DE)COMPOSING TERRITORY: Enclosure as a negotiation between bioplastics + environments
Meredith Miller
- Crease, Fold, Pour: Advancing Flexible Formwork with Digital Fabrication and Origami Folding
Maciej Kaczynski
- Platform for Architecture & Makin' It, A Situation Comedy
John McMorrough and Julia McMorrough
Photo by Peter Smith / Peter Smith Photography
A round goby is propped and setup to be photographed in the USGS Building on North Campus of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, MI on July 24, 2017.
Matthew Johnson-Roberson, NAME Assistant Professor, and his researchers in the Deep Robot Optical Perception (DROP) Lab are using these fish as subjects for development of a neural network camera. The neural network camera is able to teach itself to identify round goby via a database of imagery and visual that DROP researchers provide. By producing these visuals of round goby in a variety of environment, the neural network camera is able to adjust to a variety of conditions in nature (such as murky or unclear water) and help users identify round goby. Being able to identify these round goby via such a camera will help reduce the amount of resources and time allotted to eliminating this invasive species. Round goby were first accidentally introduced to the Great Lakes in 1990 and have resulted in substantial reduction of snails and mussels, and eggs of native fish, which are important to the angling industry.
Photo: Joseph Xu/Senior Multimedia Content Producer, University of Michigan - College of Engineering
Convergent Domains by Hans Papke
To engage the national chain grocery store is to engage with the diffuse zones of non-city-space which blanket most of the North American continent. The spatial condition in which these grocery stores thrive is part of a spatial domain which Foucault has argued exists outside of the domain of Architecture. This territory, which began to emerge with the building of the railroads is defined by Speed, Territory and Communication. I have titled this the Logistical Domain.
In The Possibility of an Absolute Architecture, Aureli uses Nolli’s map of Rome to make a distinction between two other spatial domains; the space of the City and the space of the architecture. This thesis attempts to superimpose these three spatial domains.
Upon investigating the specific siting logic of national chain grocery stores, it became clear that chain grocery stores belong very much to the logistic spatial domain. They tend to site themselves along interstates, in the zone 10-30 minutes away from the center of a nearby city. In addition to grocery stores, there are a number of other types of programs which thrive in this zone for example, office parks, movie theatres, shopping malls, marshalling yards, and airports.
However, there is perhaps nothing that exemplifies the spatial logics of Logistic Space better than the landfill. The landfill is the other side of the grocery store coin. The similarities are so great in fact, that in 2002, the largest landfill redevelopment program in the history of the state of Michigan resulted in the construction of 160,000 sq ft Meijer Supercenter on top of the former Ford Motor Company Allen Park Landfill.
This thesis investigates other ways that non-active landfill sites can be redeveloped. What would this re-territorialization look like? How can architecture legitimize itself in the Logistic Spatial Domain? What is an appropriate way to build on top of a mountain of garbage? How would a new settlement change the parameters of a chain grocery store? Finally, can Architecture begin to introduce a new kind of interiority into the extremely externalized world of Logistic Space?
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During their final year – known as the thesis year – architecture graduate students research a topic that culminates in a design project. The projects are exhibited just prior to graduation and reviewed by a panel of outside and faculty experts. One project from each studio is identified for Honors; these projects are on view over the summer in the College Gallery.
2013 Thesis Honors Projects by:
Megha Chandrasekhar, Pooja Dalal, Brittany Nicole Gacsy, Emily Kutil, Christopher Mascari, Dan McTavish, Hans Papke, Ariel Poliner, Nick Safley, Anna Schafferkoetter, and Brandon Vieth
Photo by Alex Jacque, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning
Michigan Wolverine Football Coach Jim Harbaugh, University Regents, and Alum attended the USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) aircraft carrier Commissioning on July 22, 2017 at Naval Station Norfolk. Gerald R. Ford played college football for the Wolverines and graduated from UM in 1935. (Photo by Bob Humphries 2017, also a Michigan Alum)
Rosie The Robot in John Laird's Lab in the Beyster Building
Photo: Joseph Xu, Michigan Engineering, Communications & Marketing
Diving In The Deep Workshop
Thursday Session 3
Get a hands-on introduction to the world of submersibles, the small submarines that scientists use to explore the Earth's most remote underwater worlds. You'll use the principals of pressure, weight, and buoyancy to learn how National Geographic explorer James Cameron survived a dive 36,000 feet underwater, into the deepest part of the ocean.
Photo: Joseph Xu, Michigan Engineering Communications & Marketing
Jano Band, is a famous Ethiopian traditional-based rock band participated in #GoBlue for every child campaign.
10 NEW PICS Just before 2011 opening game against Western Michigan - testing the new big screens / scoreboards (See - FULL SET)
During their final year – known as the thesis year – architecture graduate students research a topic that culminates in a design project. The projects are exhibited just prior to graduation and reviewed by a panel of outside and faculty experts. One project from each studio is identified for Honors; these projects are on view over the summer in the College Gallery.
2013 Thesis Honors Projects by:
Megha Chandrasekhar, Pooja Dalal, Brittany Nicole Gacsy, Emily Kutil, Christopher Mascari, Dan McTavish, Hans Papke, Ariel Poliner, Nick Safley, Anna Schafferkoetter, and Brandon Vieth
Photo by Alex Jacque, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning
Convergent Domains by Hans Papke
To engage the national chain grocery store is to engage with the diffuse zones of non-city-space which blanket most of the North American continent. The spatial condition in which these grocery stores thrive is part of a spatial domain which Foucault has argued exists outside of the domain of Architecture. This territory, which began to emerge with the building of the railroads is defined by Speed, Territory and Communication. I have titled this the Logistical Domain.
In The Possibility of an Absolute Architecture, Aureli uses Nolli’s map of Rome to make a distinction between two other spatial domains; the space of the City and the space of the architecture. This thesis attempts to superimpose these three spatial domains.
Upon investigating the specific siting logic of national chain grocery stores, it became clear that chain grocery stores belong very much to the logistic spatial domain. They tend to site themselves along interstates, in the zone 10-30 minutes away from the center of a nearby city. In addition to grocery stores, there are a number of other types of programs which thrive in this zone for example, office parks, movie theatres, shopping malls, marshalling yards, and airports.
However, there is perhaps nothing that exemplifies the spatial logics of Logistic Space better than the landfill. The landfill is the other side of the grocery store coin. The similarities are so great in fact, that in 2002, the largest landfill redevelopment program in the history of the state of Michigan resulted in the construction of 160,000 sq ft Meijer Supercenter on top of the former Ford Motor Company Allen Park Landfill.
This thesis investigates other ways that non-active landfill sites can be redeveloped. What would this re-territorialization look like? How can architecture legitimize itself in the Logistic Spatial Domain? What is an appropriate way to build on top of a mountain of garbage? How would a new settlement change the parameters of a chain grocery store? Finally, can Architecture begin to introduce a new kind of interiority into the extremely externalized world of Logistic Space?
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During their final year – known as the thesis year – architecture graduate students research a topic that culminates in a design project. The projects are exhibited just prior to graduation and reviewed by a panel of outside and faculty experts. One project from each studio is identified for Honors; these projects are on view over the summer in the College Gallery.
2013 Thesis Honors Projects by:
Megha Chandrasekhar, Pooja Dalal, Brittany Nicole Gacsy, Emily Kutil, Christopher Mascari, Dan McTavish, Hans Papke, Ariel Poliner, Nick Safley, Anna Schafferkoetter, and Brandon Vieth
Photo by Alex Jacque, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning
Convergent Domains by Hans Papke
To engage the national chain grocery store is to engage with the diffuse zones of non-city-space which blanket most of the North American continent. The spatial condition in which these grocery stores thrive is part of a spatial domain which Foucault has argued exists outside of the domain of Architecture. This territory, which began to emerge with the building of the railroads is defined by Speed, Territory and Communication. I have titled this the Logistical Domain.
In The Possibility of an Absolute Architecture, Aureli uses Nolli’s map of Rome to make a distinction between two other spatial domains; the space of the City and the space of the architecture. This thesis attempts to superimpose these three spatial domains.
Upon investigating the specific siting logic of national chain grocery stores, it became clear that chain grocery stores belong very much to the logistic spatial domain. They tend to site themselves along interstates, in the zone 10-30 minutes away from the center of a nearby city. In addition to grocery stores, there are a number of other types of programs which thrive in this zone for example, office parks, movie theatres, shopping malls, marshalling yards, and airports.
However, there is perhaps nothing that exemplifies the spatial logics of Logistic Space better than the landfill. The landfill is the other side of the grocery store coin. The similarities are so great in fact, that in 2002, the largest landfill redevelopment program in the history of the state of Michigan resulted in the construction of 160,000 sq ft Meijer Supercenter on top of the former Ford Motor Company Allen Park Landfill.
This thesis investigates other ways that non-active landfill sites can be redeveloped. What would this re-territorialization look like? How can architecture legitimize itself in the Logistic Spatial Domain? What is an appropriate way to build on top of a mountain of garbage? How would a new settlement change the parameters of a chain grocery store? Finally, can Architecture begin to introduce a new kind of interiority into the extremely externalized world of Logistic Space?
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During their final year – known as the thesis year – architecture graduate students research a topic that culminates in a design project. The projects are exhibited just prior to graduation and reviewed by a panel of outside and faculty experts. One project from each studio is identified for Honors; these projects are on view over the summer in the College Gallery.
2013 Thesis Honors Projects by:
Megha Chandrasekhar, Pooja Dalal, Brittany Nicole Gacsy, Emily Kutil, Christopher Mascari, Dan McTavish, Hans Papke, Ariel Poliner, Nick Safley, Anna Schafferkoetter, and Brandon Vieth
Photo by Alex Jacque, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning
Convergent Domains by Hans Papke
To engage the national chain grocery store is to engage with the diffuse zones of non-city-space which blanket most of the North American continent. The spatial condition in which these grocery stores thrive is part of a spatial domain which Foucault has argued exists outside of the domain of Architecture. This territory, which began to emerge with the building of the railroads is defined by Speed, Territory and Communication. I have titled this the Logistical Domain.
In The Possibility of an Absolute Architecture, Aureli uses Nolli’s map of Rome to make a distinction between two other spatial domains; the space of the City and the space of the architecture. This thesis attempts to superimpose these three spatial domains.
Upon investigating the specific siting logic of national chain grocery stores, it became clear that chain grocery stores belong very much to the logistic spatial domain. They tend to site themselves along interstates, in the zone 10-30 minutes away from the center of a nearby city. In addition to grocery stores, there are a number of other types of programs which thrive in this zone for example, office parks, movie theatres, shopping malls, marshalling yards, and airports.
However, there is perhaps nothing that exemplifies the spatial logics of Logistic Space better than the landfill. The landfill is the other side of the grocery store coin. The similarities are so great in fact, that in 2002, the largest landfill redevelopment program in the history of the state of Michigan resulted in the construction of 160,000 sq ft Meijer Supercenter on top of the former Ford Motor Company Allen Park Landfill.
This thesis investigates other ways that non-active landfill sites can be redeveloped. What would this re-territorialization look like? How can architecture legitimize itself in the Logistic Spatial Domain? What is an appropriate way to build on top of a mountain of garbage? How would a new settlement change the parameters of a chain grocery store? Finally, can Architecture begin to introduce a new kind of interiority into the extremely externalized world of Logistic Space?
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During their final year – known as the thesis year – architecture graduate students research a topic that culminates in a design project. The projects are exhibited just prior to graduation and reviewed by a panel of outside and faculty experts. One project from each studio is identified for Honors; these projects are on view over the summer in the College Gallery.
2013 Thesis Honors Projects by:
Megha Chandrasekhar, Pooja Dalal, Brittany Nicole Gacsy, Emily Kutil, Christopher Mascari, Dan McTavish, Hans Papke, Ariel Poliner, Nick Safley, Anna Schafferkoetter, and Brandon Vieth
Photo by Alex Jacque, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning