Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

TCAUP.

Graduate work in architecture — airspace, infrastructure, and responsive material systems, before any of it was software.

Degree: M.Arch
School: University of Michigan
Years: 2011–14

The questions that still drive the practice first took shape in Ann Arbor: airspace as territory, infrastructure as civic architecture, systems that respond to their environment. What follows is the archive — four projects, kept as they were.

Drones of New York

Urban airspace study

A mapping of urban airspace at the dawn of the consumer drone — New York's skyline as the next contested commons, a decade before the work turned to filling that airspace with point-to-point flight.

Unisphere board — Peace Through Understanding — FIG. 01b — Unisphere, Flushing Meadows

“Liberty is a practice.”

Databarge

Infrastructure proposal

Data infrastructure afloat — server barges docked in the heart of the city, the river as both site and cooling system. The cloud, moored where the demand is.

Databarge — night render on the river — FIG. 02 — Night on the river

Pneusystems

Material research · with RVTR

Research with the practice RVTR translating the formal, material, and operational principles of biological cellular pneumatics into lightweight adaptive building envelopes — low-energy, non-mechanically actuated, breathing with their environment.

FIG. 03b — Pneusystems in motion

Dimensions 26

Journal

Taubman College's annual journal of architecture — the editorial and graphic sensibility that runs through everything since.