3A Design Studio: New Forms of Collectivity - City and Campus

Coordinator(s)
Teaching Assistant(s)
Julia Nakanishi
Jim Shi

If there is to be a "new urbanism" it will not be based on the twin fantasies of order and omnipotence; it will be the staging of uncertainty; it will no longer be concerned with the arrangement of more or less permanent objects but with the irrigation of territories with potential; it will no longer aim for stable configurations but for the creation of enabling fields that accommodate processes that refuse to be crystallized into definitive form; it will no longer be about meticulous definition, the imposition of limits, but about expanding notions, denying boundaries, not about separating and identifying entities, but about discovering un-namable hybrids... Since the urban is now pervasive, urbanism will never again be about the "new;' only about the "more" and the "modified:' It will not be about the civilized, but about underdevelopment.
-- “What Ever Happened to Urbanism?”, Rem Koolhaas, 1995

The city is both a reflection of social aspirations and the tangible product of economic and political forces, which often compete with the former. The broad ambition of the studio is to incite discussion and thinking about what constitutes the city, how to shape it, and how housing can form a constituent part of city making. The studio will explore these questions through the vehicle of university student housing.

Student Work Gallery

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    Interior render view of a housing unit.
    Interior view
    Anastasia Jaffray
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    Exterior render view.
    Exterior view
    Anastasia Jaffray
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    Exploded axonometric of the buildings on site.
    Exploded Axonometric
    Caroline Brodeur
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    Interior render of a student’s room.
    Interior view: Room
    Caroline Brodeur
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    Exterior render view.
    Exterior view
    Hannah Connolly
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    Elevation of building.
    Elevation
    Hannah Connolly
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    Interior rendered view of courtyard.
    Interior view of courtyard
    Leela Keshav
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    Exterior rendered view of path.
    Exterior view
    Leela Keshav
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    Axonometric diagram of the building circulation and housing unit typologies.
    Circulation and unit typologies diagram
    Lily Tran
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    Section perspective through the building highlighting living and gallery spaces.
    Section
    Lily Tran
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    Render view of a student housing unit.
    Exterior View
    Lily Tran
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    Left: Programmatic diagram. Right: Concept diagram for the building.
    Program Diagram (Left) Concept Diagram (Right)
    Nancy Yeh
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    Interior render view
    Interior view
    Nancy Yeh
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    Interior render view.
    Interior view
    Nancy Yeh
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    Exterior rendered view.
    Exterior view
    Shiying Wang
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    Interior rendered view.
    Interior view
    Shiying Wang
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    Rendered section through building.
    Rendered section
    Shiying Wang
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    The left image is an exploded axonometric of the entire site and a program diagram showing the building breakdown on the right.
    Exploded Axonometric (Left), Program Diagram (Right)
    Zihao Wei
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    Section drawing through the buildings on site.
    Section
    Zihao Wei
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    Rendered daytime view of the outside shared public space.
    Exterior View
    Zihao Wei
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    Rendered view of the campus square.
    Exterior View
    Zihao Wei
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    Three-by-three grid showing the assembly of spaces using a physical model.
    Model Assemblage
    Zihao Wei