U-SoA Fall 2020 Final Reviews

Image credit: Gray Burke

Studio Description
Currently, more than half of the world’s population lives in cities. It is projected that by 2050 an additional 2.5 billion people will migrate to urban areas across the globe. How we build new cities and adapt the current patterns of those that exist, will be at the forefront of the critical questions facing our society. Additionally, the environment is a complex collection of intricacies that are shaped by policy.

These policies impact the architecture, urbanism and communities upon which they are inacted. The challenge of building smarter and more sustainable cities is a complex endeavor; and yet several key issues rise to the surface including: race and ethnicity, the understanding and preservation of the natural environment and its ecological patterns; the creation of equitable transportation networks that provide a multiplicity of experiences such as walking, biking, and public transportation; the adaptive re-use of existing buildings and infrastructure; and the integration of mixed-use and mixed-income environments capable of supporting more dynamic and vibrant societies.

ARC 203, the third in a sequence of ten design studios at the University of Miami School of Architecture, will focus on the relationship between architecture and the natural environment. The studio will stress the topics of equitable design, regulatory contexts, urban resilience, building adaptation, and the impacts of climate change and sea-level-rise on our communities.

Assignments and workshops will be designed to build an understanding of what this might mean at both a personal and communal level. A series of virtual site visits, analytical drawings, and workshops will provide a platform for the exploration and acquisition of knowledge in this field.

Coordinator/Faculty
Germane Barnes

Time
9am

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Meeting ID: 997 5809 0434
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Student Names
Lillian Acosta
Alex Adams
Isabella Adelsohn
Alana Bernard
Gray Burke
Zachary Cronin
Brianna Frank
Justin Heitner
Abdulaziz Jawher
Alexandria Jones
Andrea Martinez
Carolina Rodriguez
Connor Stevens

Faculty
Rocco Ceo

Time
Morning Session

Student Names
Michelle Akl Villegas
Salem Alsalmi
Salome Arango
Lauren Elia
Hannah Meyer
Maria Rosiles
Carlos Santos Ortiz
Emel Yilmaz
Emmaus Yonas

Faculty
Alice Cimring

Time
9am

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Meeting ID: 923 8363 3743
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Student Names
Gabriela DeCamarero
Daley Hall
John Kovacic
Ashley Lee
Benjamin Martin
Teagan Polizzi
Brandon Soto
Rebecca Stewart
Samuel Tsirulnikov
Kevan Washington
Isabella Zayas

Faculty
Donnie Garcia - Navarro

Time
9am

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Meeting ID: 976 5683 0041
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Student Names
Ryan Berman
Ethan Blatt
Sasha Braggs
Tyler Dowd
Alexander Harper
Tarynn Kaelin
William Redding
Kayla Rembold
Mikayla Riselli
Francisco Sanabria
Jaclyn Torn
Nicole Alana Trujillo
Leanne Vera

Faculty
Florian Sauter
Charlotte Von Moos

Time
9am

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Meeting ID: 928 6728 2001
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Student Names
Nicolas Alvarez
Julia Borges Reis
Ayca Erturk
Yuxin "Jasmine" Hong
Daniela Jalfon
Grace Levey
Douglas Noriega
Erika Orellana
Nandha Ravi
Abbas Yaqoub

Faculty
Mikhaile Solomon

Time
Morning Session

Student Names
Annsley Barton
Sophia Benitez
Keely Brunkow
Jacob Davis
Sean Festa
Emma Friderici
Jake Gawrych
Sidney Marques
Erik Olliges
Quinn Riesch
Chi Ta
Kailyn Wee
Andrew Zegans

Faculty
David Trautman

Time
Morning Session

Student Names
Nicholas Amadori
Teodoro Bueres
Jack Chazotte
Emily Dietzko
Meghan Dombroski
Josie Duran
Mariana Fleites
Nicole Garcia-Tunon
Dario Gonzalez Bautista
Kean O'Connor
Shea Stuyvesant
Sara Tufail
Robert Upton

Faculty
Yasmine Zehgar

Time
9am

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Student Names
Juan Chinchilla
Nathan Dankner
Alexis Ebue
Didem Erbilen
Andrea Lira
Blaise Lowen
Fabiana Macedo Rodriguez
Ana Carolina "Nico" Machado Rusconi
Manuela Marulanda Bedoya
Yuhang Liu
Steffi Rangel
Benedetto Rebecca
Daniel Sicorsky-Brener

Studio Description
The City of Miami Beach has decided to sponsor the creation of a Miami Beach Architecture Center. The purpose of this building is to highlight importance of architecture and urbanism as a discipline and the architecture of Miami Beach. The new public facility will perform simultaneously as visitor center and architecture research center. The intention of the city is for the center to provide information to tourists and to become a place of encounter for the local and visiting architecture and design community. The project site is located in the SW corner Alton Rd. and Lincoln Rd. The site includes two lots approximately 50’x 150’ for a total of approximately 100’ x 150’ or 15,000sf. The site boundaries are Alton Rd, Lincoln Rd, Lincoln Court and a new mix use building in south side of the combined lot with commercial and parking facilities.

Coordinator/Faculty
Roberto Behar

Time
1pm

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Meeting ID: 935 8703 3138
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Student Names
Amy Agne
Ethan Anderson
Gabriel Figueroa
Isaiah Holmes
Diana Juarez-Montano
Maia Marshall
Blake Oliver
Miranda Posey
Morgan Rapp
Joao Ribeiro
Lucas Rosen
Jayna Schack

Faculty
Eric Firley

Time
1:30pm

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Student Names
Livia Brodie
Vincent Brown
Brenda Hernandez
Kevin Johnson
Benjamin Klinger
Christopher Muchow
Andrey Nash
Ian Ondek
Farha Reshamwala
Megan Sheehan
Anthony Venant
Christelle Vincent
Ckiara Condezo

Faculty
Steve Fett

Time
1:30pm

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Meeting ID: 686 462 4363

Student Names
Adriana Ferreira Penna Chaves
Paul Fishel
Gianna Florio
Herber Hernandez
Nicholas Ingold
Mahlia Jenkins
Hope Kenny
Dominic Lanctot
Conor Quigley
Elliot Saeidy
James Schmidt
Shannon Stack
Harrison Zaye

Faculty
Jean Francois Lejeune

Time
1:30pm

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Meeting ID: 953 6795 3199
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Student Names
Naser Alkandari
Sarah Alturkait
Fahad Alzaid
Johanela Hinz
Emily Kopke
Ashanni McClam
Emad Munshi
Julia Teig
Anna Valdes Zauner
Anan Yu
Abdallah Zaidan
Zeyu Zhang

Faculty
Veruska Vasconez

Time
1:30pm

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Meeting ID: 964 0426 5072

Student Names
Abdullatif Alhusaini
Mohammad Alramadan
Crispin Blamphin
Vanessa Crespo
Runyu Da
Sophia Elwaw
Emma Gerlach
Amanda Guerrero
Afomia Hunde
Katherine Lesh
Guang Liang
Teymour Khoury

Studio Description
A NEW PALAZZINA IN THE AVENTINO

In comparison to other European capital cities, the historic center of Rome has remained largely untouched by contemporary architecture. This studio will be an exciting opportunity to transform one of the oldest neighborhoods in Rome by proposing a new housing project. Students will develop a new and contemporary housing solution that is informed by modern Mediterranean architecture.

In light of the global pandemic, lower density housing projects with generous interiors and exteriors, offering healthy, well ventilated spaces and green areas, will become more attractive solutions for urban centers. For this studio, a lower density housing type known as the Roman palazzina will be considered to be the most viable precedent.

The methodology for the studio will require an in-depth analysis of the Roman palazzina and research on Mediterranean architecture. Students will translate the spirit of modern Mediterranean models to a housing idea that is inclusive of a larger demographic than the palazzina and one that proposes an alternative to the unsuccessful, unhealthy and oversized housing projects of contemporary times.

Faculty
Carmen Guerrero

Time
1:30pm

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Meeting ID: 928 6498 8174
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(Combination of virtual and in-person sessions in Glasgow Hall)

Student Names
Megan Browne
Hannah Lilia Rodriguez
Max Speziani
Abel Andres Victores
Connor Griffin Murray
Samantha Ramos
Otto  Gustav Mastrapa
Daniel Oh
Jake Leonardi
Charlotte Kyra McCabe
Ho Ming Herman Lui

Studio Description
RE-IMAGINING THE HOSPITAL AFTER COVID

Organized as part of a seminar and healthcare design studio led by Professor Joanna Lombard in the University of Miami School of Architecture in collaboration with Dr. Steven G. Ullmann, Director of the Center for Health Management and Policy in the Miami Herbert Business School, each panel features a conversation among healthcare leaders who will discuss their observations and experiences in relation to their work in and with hospitals amidst COVID-19 conditions. Structured with opening remarks, discussion among the panelists with the moderator, questions from the audience, and panelists' closing remarks, this series provides invaluable first-hand insights to students and faculty, business, design, and health professionals.

Faculty
Joanna Lombard

Time
1:30pm

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Student Names
Emily Camejo
Polen Durak
Tomas Tapias
Tiffani Banks
Ryan Paul Daniusis
Jheanelle Christasia Georgian Miller
Daniel Eduardo Morgan Levy
Nora A KH S Alkhalaf
Gabrielle Boyar
Sheinya Wittney Joseph
Michael Kundin
Skyler Barton Lowden
Gabriel Jean-Paul Soomar

Studio Description
THE MEDICAL CITY

The last few months has seen a dramtic change in the lives of everyone in the world. Every single continent has been afflicted by a pandemic which has challenged the way we all live. From the way we interact to the way we work, COVID 19 has left a mark which will have a direct impact in the way that buildings are being designed now, but more profoundly, the way in which we will conduct our lives in the future. The University of Miami is the second largest healthcare center in the United States and its Medical Campus has never had a cohesive vision. A unique opportunity has appeared where partnerships with the private sector could possible create a new Medical City in which healthcare, wellness, research, and hospitality co-exist in one single campus. The studio will explore the design of such a center, focusing on 4 specific programs: A Medical Education Center; a Research Facility; a Residential Building and a Hotel, all within the same complex. We will begin with a Master Plan for the complex, and then we will produce individual building designs for each of the program components. The course will be taught on-line and will involve lectures by outstanding experts in the design of Healthcare and Mixed-Use facilities. We will have online reviews and design critiques which will be scheduled so that students will have individualized one-on-one attention.

Faculty
JOSE GELABERT-NAVIA

Time/Session Information
Contact jgelabert@miami.edu.

Student Names
Siying Cheng
Lauren Kimberly Oates
Ricardo Perez
Daniel Bradley Kamb
Sofia A Kiblisky
Alexandra Marie Leitch
Gretchen Suzanne Lemon
Stefanie M Levy
Karlie Ann Lobitz
Tanner Wall
Natalie Marie Lipsey

Studio Description
PROJECT 5 THE GUEST HOUSE: A Place for Dwelling, Thinking and Making shall be the final Project of the semester. Students will be asked to draw upon the knowledge gathered up to this point in the semester by taking on the challenge of designing of a small Guest House. Having explored the discipline of Architecture through rigorous precedent analysis and exemplary models of works of architecture capable of imparting knowledge on conventions in architectural composition in response to a culture, climate, materiality, technology, use and form, students will engage in questions of convention, tradition, repetitive paradigms and invention. The setting for the new design shall be within a historical site of cultural importance in the City of Coral Gables. The design shall provide a place for an invited guest artist/scholar (painter, sculptor, musician, poet, writer, dancer, researcher…) to be in residence while completing hers/his creative work. There will be a virtual tour of the site, with City of Coral Gables officials, to aid in understanding the physical attributes and history of the place. The goal of embellishment and completion within an existing valued context shall be explored using principles of architectural composition studied in the preceding projects of the semester.

Image credit: La casa de la palmera, oil on linen “House with Palm Tree”, Joan Miró, 1918, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, photo by F. Martinez

Coordinator/Faculty
Frank Martinez (c)
Mario Ostolaza

Time
10am

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Meeting ID: 991 0528 8780

Student Names
Adeline Angelino
Carlos Arrinda Ulivi
Cassandra Cotter
Leah Culbert
Sophia Emanuel
Carolina Gonzalez
Beibhinn O'Reilly
William Perik
Elisabeth Schnell
Sophia Tosti
Benito Zapata

Faculty
Juan Alayo
Victor Deupi

Time
10am

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Student Names
Benjamin Callanan
Daniel Ferrer
Ahmad Jamal
Paris James
Matthew Jaramillo
Ana Jouvin
Marielle Koeppen
Elise Palenzuela
Kelsey Payne
Anna Puente
Nate Raisner 

Faculty
Juan Calvo
Melodie Sanchez

Time
10am

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Student Names
Samuel Carter
Ashley Collins
Antonio Del Toro
Ciara Joseph
Santiago Krossler
Chailing Alexis Lewis
Meghan Mahoney
Alex Miller
Carlo Paz
Melanie Plutsky
Vivian Smith
Jillian Tarini

Faculty
Wendy Caraballo
Adib Cure

Time
10am

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Student Names
Abdullah Almousalli
Tai Dottin-Meggs
Franco Ferreira De Melo
Juan "Sebas" Hernandez
Mia Morgan
Danielle Natale
Samantha Nowak
Tate Nowell
Emma Catherine Przybylo
Mason Rape
Aiden Surman

Coordinator/Faculty
Najeeb Campbell
Carie Penabad (c)

Time
10am

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Student Names
Roee Aviv
Margaret Barrow
Christina Gallarello
Andrea Hernandez
Nicole Kertznus
Vanessa Lopez-Trujillo
Sofia Paniagua
Mykayla Pauls
Andrew Price
Michael Roldan Pico
Andrew Rosenburg
Matthew Trebra

Faculty
Megan McLaughlin
Oscar Machado

Time
10am

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Student Names
Latifa Alfalah
Andrea Baussan
Harold Collard
Lara Connolly
Benjamin Darby
Abdulwahab "Wahab" Eisa
Sarah Figueira
Tatiana Gaviria Cardenas
Charles Penny
Shariq Ramsubhag
Christopher Stinson
Pablo Vera
Hamza Waris

Faculty
Ricardo Lopez
Jorge Trelles

Time
10am

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Student Names
Raghad Alqertas
Catalina Cabral-Framinan
George Elliott
Daniel Kurland
Katherine Lindsey
Malachi Matthews
Isha Patel
Bennet Resnick
Maria Saldivar Sandoval
Cailley Slaten
Roland Stafford

Faculty
Jaime Correa
Oscar Machado

Time
10am

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Student Names
Yousif Abdulhasan
Farhan Ali Barmare
Jesper Brenner
Daniella Bueso Flefil
Daniela De Sola
Adriana DeCastro
Alexandra Ducas
Mary Gorski
Liam Green
Julian Karam
Bryson Leonard
Angela Mesaros
Yanitza Gisselle Velez

Faculty
Rafael Tapanes
Jorge Trelles

Time
10am

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Student Names
Khalil Bland
Aidan Davis
Isabella Jackson
Mariam Khadr
Grant McNavage
Lares Monge
Defne Oezdursun
Michelle Saguinsin
Hailey Scarantino
Sebastian Serrano
Xinrong "Cindy" Ye

Faculty
Cristina Canton
Carolina Calzada

Time
10am

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Student Names
Julio Brea
Peter De Leon
Alyssa Garcia
Diego Horta
Rim Khayata
Celeste Landry
Yamaris Martinez
Jacob Nussbaum
Laura Petrillo
Olivia Speaks
Thomas Wenke

Studio Description
WOOD AND EVERYTHING AFTER

“the organism which destroys its environment, destroys itself”
- Gregory Bateson, English Anthropologist Social Science 1904-1980

In the simplest of terms, Bateson acknowledges the act of environmental alteration as a potential act of self destruction. Consciously or unconsciously the decisions made at the scale of the building impacts both geological and ecological systems near and far; consequently, architecture provocations must address both the built and natural environments simultaneously.

The studio Wood and Everything After will explore the resurgence of wood as a buliding material through the simple question, what is the architecture morphology of wood? Student driven research will delve into architecture as a conscious act of design linking territory, industrial processing, logistics, tectonics, form and space. These elements will stand as the alibi to strip away the ambiguity of wood as a commodity and serve to understand the diversity of wood’s architectural building morphology: frame, hybrid, mass based, and everything after. Deleuze and Guattari unveil the first act of the studio: surrender to the material so we can uncover the specificity of wood architecture.

“It is a question of surrendering to the wood, then following where it leads by connecting operations to a materiality, instead of imposing a form upon a matter: what one addresses is less a matter submitted to laws than a materiality possessing a nomos. One addresses less a form capable of imposing properties upon a matter than material traits of expression constituting affects”
- Giles Deleuze (French philosopher) & Felix Guttari (French Psychoanalyst)

Faculty
Christopher Meyer

Time
12pm

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Meeting ID: 973 7314 8373
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Student Names
Jennifer Ann Lamy
Yayu Yan
Peyton Fraser Smyth
Shimeng Yang
Madison Taylor Seip
Maria Claudia Aparicio
Shariq Ishaque
Brendan Patrick Riggs
Haoran Wang
Cooper William Kaplan

Studio Description
SLICES: STRUCTURAL FOAM + ROBOTIC STEREOTOMY

The relationship between form and function, and in particular the reciprocity between geometry and structure, is among the oldest preoccupations in architecture. And despite the liberatory promise of structural surfaces (especially as exemplified in the work of Felix Candela, Frei Otto, Heinz Isler and their kin), the extruded beam, uniform slab and plumb wall still reign. This persistence is equal parts a failure of our collective imagination, and a limitation imposed by industrial production. An example: the steel beam has been produced the same way for some two hundred years. It is straight, uniform and flat because it has been rolled or extruded. The structurally perfect beam, in constrast, is shaped, allocating material where it is most needed and best used. In short, structural geometry and efficient production are at odds under the prevailing industrial paradigm.

Emerging technologies, specifically computational design and robotic fabrication, promise to transcend the limitations of aging industrial production processes. It is possible, only in our moment, to have it both ways: structural geometries that can also be produced efficiently. The aim of this studio is to explore the radical new possibilities engendered by this shift. We will focus on one method (among many) for this exploration: using the robot arm, equipped with hot-wire cutter, to slice foam blocks. The solids formed this way, by definition bounded by ruled surfaces on all sides, will have inherent structural properties that we will elverage to compose larger assemblies. Two common building systems will serve as our real-world precedents for foam acting as structure: Insulated Concrete Forms (ICFs) and Structural Insulated Panels (SIPs).

Put another, equally truthful and much less verbose, way: this studio will be using a robot to cut blocks of foam into spectacular shapes. We will imagine them at many scales, combine them with other materials in interesting ways, and add them together to make larger things still. We will discuss geometry, structure, pasts and futures. You will get hands-on time with the Kuka robotic arm, and learn the software necessary to use it. Through playing, testing, experimenting, prototyping and other modes of making, you will transform raw material into architectural matter.

Faculty
Joel Lamere

Time
1 - 3pm online (on Zoom)
3 - 5:30pm in-person (@U-SoA, Murphy Terrace)

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Miro Board

Student Names
Haley Smith
Jason Scott Brostoff
Behzad Tavakol
Valeria Vyacheslavna Dimitryuk
Alexandra Maria Remos
Morgan Christopher O'Brien
Faris Al Aswad
Michael Sean Cannon
Batuhan Dortcelik
Mackenzie Sky Wilhelm
Reid Kruse Yenor

Studio Description
AFTER THE PANDEMIC
Resiliency and Recovery Master Plan for Cultural Patrimony in the Abaco Cays

Architecture and Urbanism, Historic Preservation, Classical and Vernacular Building Traditions, Social Geography and Material Culture, Resilient Planning, Sustainable Urban and Community Development, Transportation, Island Geo- Culture, Ocean Civil Engineering, Water Resource Management

After disaster, of any kind, comes a time of recuperation and reconstruction. It is a time of introspection and memory also. Memory of what is lost and passed in our own lives and in our consciousness as a people in community. Cultural Patrimony of the built environment is the common and shared heritage where the collective memory of a society, in time and place, resides and is manifest.

The settlements of the Abaco Cays are such patrimony for the peoples of The Bahamas and, to the extent these towns and places share a common history and culture with a broader Caribbean and mid-Atlantic heritage, have a greater ethno-geographic meaning. The studio is a focused and committed effort towards a designed planned recovery for the island settlements based on architecture, landscape, urbanism and infrastructural practice, which is at once resilient, projects forward and preserves, for future generations, the meaning and beauty of a distinct culture.

The Studio is an extension of the After the Storm Studio, which addressed the destruction of Hurricane Dorian in the Abaco Cays, and contextualizes the effect of the pandemic unto a broader fabric of disaster response and the stewardship of cultural patrimony.

Image credit: Clarence Bethel under the shed in Hope Town was the builder of this wooden dingy being constructed for the photographer, Martin Linsey in 1947.

Faculty
Teofilo Victoria

Time
1:30pm

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Meeting ID: 943 2729 9973
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Student Names
Jichu Li
Christian T Meyer
Mariel Delyn Lindsey
Sarah Nicole Ercia
Alexia Marotta
Jane Wesley Rakow
Alicia Colon
Caitlin Garner
Florianne Adrien Jacques
Nathalia A Giacetti

Studio Description
CANIN URBAN DESIGN STUDIO: Barrio de la Merced, Mexico City

A sponsored studio focused on the production of urban design and architecture alternatives for one of the oldest neighborhoods in Mexico City: Barrio de La Merced. There wil be a potential collaboration with students/faculty at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM); students enrolled in the CANIN URBAN DESIGN STUDIO studio will intervene in public spaces and building areas around one of the most important and surreal retail markets in Mexico City: Mercado de La Merced. This is a sponsored research studio where innovation and experimentation are fundamental pre-requisites for its successful completion.

Faculty
Jaime Correa

Time
4pm

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Meeting ID: 959 6963 2256

Student Names
Emily Paige Fusilero
Eduardo A Ventura
Janan A H GH Husain
Rawan Kh H H M Alkandari
Salah Saleh M Alsharari
Ciana Leigh Bello
Thomas Long
Amanda Blair Brown
James Joesph Tirado
Andre Mega de Mathis
Spencer Richardson
Adam Toum Benchekroun

Studio Description
LA PLAYA: THE VERNACULAROLOGY STUDIO

The Vernacularology Studio is preoccupied with the extent to which the ordinary and the colloquial resonate in architecture and the construction of the city today. According to the World Bank, since WWII global population has increased from two billion to 7.8 billion, and nearly all this growth has taken place in the developing world, where the urban population has grown from 300 million to 1.7 billion today. Most of these urban dwellers live in communities that, while composed of buildings that range from simple shacks to permanent structures, belong to an urban geography that is literally “off the map”: undocumented, illegal, mobile, ephemeral, and generally beyond the reach of government services and infrastructure. Lacking even an agreed-upon descriptive term-they are variously referred to as slums, informal settlements, shantytowns, or Unplanned Cities-they are often seen as nothing but undifferentiated pockets of misery, wracked by poverty, crime, and unsanitary conditions: in other words, an unfortunate but inevitable wast product of the uncontrolled urban growth that characterizes our time. This view is as unfortunate as it is misguided. While undeniably precarious in construction, Unplanned Cities exhibit underlying urban and architectural patterns of remarkable resilience, and that moreover reflect their inhabitants’ enduring cultural values. Given this framework, this studio will initially focus on the mapping of the La Playa informal city in Barranquilla, Colombia. However, the primary objective of the semester is to initiate urban regeneration through the design of sustainable urban and architectural proposals within this neighborhood. The proposals will constitute an opportunity to investigate building types that would foster a sense of community ownership, and provide a variety of spaces serving an entire urban environment. At the same time, while rigorously studying the principles of architecture and town building found in these communities and documenting our findings, we will also position our research within the framework of local cultural history, aesthetic tradition, and popular culture, arriving at suggested solutions that derive organically, in a sustainable fashion, from the immediate social, topographic and cultural environment.

Faculty
Adib Cure 
Carie Penabad

Time/Session Information
Contact acure@miami.edu or cpenabad@miami.edu.

Student Names
Gladys Amelia Espinal Vasquez
Rebecca Kate Rudner
Hunter J Kronk
Yufei Huang
Haochen Su
Katya Carmen Garcia
Cecilia Debary McCammon
Jose Alejandro Villalobos
Alexia Lohken
Jackeline Ivonne Del Arca Argueta
Larah Garcez Biondo
Natalia Andrea Cure Garcia

Studio Description
HEALTH AND CLIMATE RESPONSE

This studio will introduce students to the principles, processes and practice of urban design through a series of design projects varying in scale and location.

The semester will engage four projects in a sequence that builds the student’s understanding of the elements of urban design. These will include: 1) a synoptic survey (design analysis) of a place (neighborhood street) of the student’s experience; 2) the design of an urban infill site with buildings and streets; 3) a design analysis of an internationally admired public space; 4) and the design of a new neighborhood of specific context and program to make a place of convenience, character, and beauty.

Students will learn about place-making, designs that invite pedestrian use of public space, promoting a sense of community, neighborhood structure, the Transect, building types, modes of mobility, and site-specific concerns of environment, health, and climate.

The studio will be run in a dual format, with in-person meetings on campus and on-line sessions that include all in the studio, as well as individual sessions. Once a week, guest lecturers on the topic of urban design will be assembled from around the world to make presentations and converse with studio participants. Students will be asked to suggest the names of urban designers they would like to meet in this manner.

Image credit: ARC 601 Project #4  – Three Corners redevelopment site in Vero Beach, FL

Coordinator/Faculty
Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk

Time
1:30pm

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Meeting ID: 969 8226 0093
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Student Names
Andrew Kent Bissell
Marissa Gomez Almanza
Jiaxin Li
Yingqi Li
Pratiksha Jayprakash Achari
Michael Sutton Cahn
Maria Andreina Noriega Guerrero
Leah Keira Coleby
John Lawrence Henneman
Mikayla Paris Allen
Vaishvi Likhar

Studio Description
SECONDARY CITY

The design studio for the fall semester 2020, which works at the interface of architecture, infrastructure, urban design and landscape, will focus on the spatial and social densification of downtown Miami. The starting point of our investigation will be the roofscapes and the often unused building structures beneath. We are looking for visionary designs for selective spatial urban expansions above the existing built environment, with the urban fabric providing the spatial and content-related basis. The continuous destruction of old buildings should be avoided, but this does not mean that the old structures should be recreated. These should be supplemented and provided with content. The goal is to consider the layered construction of cities with ad-hoc juxtapositions rich in contrast, for it is the oppositions that often make two rather mediocre buildings more interesting, and the city versatile.

There are many different unrealized theoretical constructs and realized projects of vertical growth that may inspire us in this design effort. Some of these designs have arisen from historic preservation concerns, but often they are driven by opportunity, or by a philosophical position toward the conservation of built artifacts. They show how a second city can be conceived above an existing one without displacing it. Such a city can be understood as non-rigid, with overlapping layers, free spaces and structures that can be separately conceived and thus to do justice to the free will of the individual inhabitants and to the democratic process of urban appropriation. An intensive networking of these layers multiplies the possibilities of urban life. A further focus is on the adaptability of existing structures, and thus their sustainability and elasticity. Adapted, transformed, and extended, these structures are extended sustainably for many years. And so we pursue the idea of transferring the organic life cycle of birth and growth to urban development and architecture. Flexible and expandable architecture should make this possible, based on an efficient and resource-saving use of materials and building modules that can be exchanged and expanded and take into account a constant change in function. In summary, we are interested in visionary and sustainable projects based on a big and sustainable idea, without losing sight of the given context and scale.

Faculty
Allan Shulman
Patrick Reuter

Time
1:30pm

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Meeting ID: 918 7593 2509
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Student Names
Alixandra Fleming
Peter O Kiliddjian
Santiago Salamanca
Crawford Suarez
Nathan Michael Sullivan
Junren Tan

Studio Description
PHYSICAL AND SPATIAL COMPUTING IN ARCHITECTURE

Computing is migrating from dedicated static appliances to mobile devices, objects of everyday life, and physical environments thanks to proliferating microchips, ever-expanding information networks, and new interactive interfaces such as Augmented/Mixed Reality. Soon every object around will be inherently or virtually equipped with some computational power and become enmeshed in a network of communication. The built environments will take on functionalities we usually reserve to computers and hand-held communication devices. This functionality becomes particularly desirable in a post-COVID-19 world where the manipulation of digital content that is virtually layered on top of things becomes preferable to physical contact with objects and user interfaces. MR allows for engaging interactions in the real word with non-substantial content. Surely one of the greatest benefit of MR in times of social distancing and confinement is the capacity to meet, interact, and collaborate remotely: to be virtually present without being physically exposed. The studio course explores this new reality and propose designs for its non-substantial environments.

The course seeks synergies between Mixed Reality (MR) and the Internet of Things (IoT), using Magic Leap’s platform for spatial computing as well as other digital tools that facilitate remote learning and collaboration. We will focus on the domestic environment and how it may overlap with and accommodate various aspects of everyday life by means of technology: working, learning, leisure, health, shopping, and storing. Particular attention will be given to how the home could become an augmented site for new forms of interaction and socialization.

Faculty
Rodolphe el-Khoury
Christopher Chung
Max Jarosz

Time
1:30pm

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Student Names
Taylor Alyssa Eyo
Elaheh Mahiantoosi
Kerianne Taylor Matre
Shannon Rose Skylark Newberry
Hector Gonzalo Valdivia
Clarissa Hellebrand Blasini
Olivia Tower Schilling
Valentina Eugenia Alfonzo Albornett
Andrew Joseph Almeida
William John Barrett

Studio Description
SOME MIAMI GAS STATIONS - HOUSE WITHOUT FORM

Openly alluding to Ed Ruscha’s seminal publication Twentysix Gasoline Stations from
1963, this studio proposes to rethink and reconfigure some of Miami’s gas stations for a
post-fossil future. The first step will be to document a number of rather generic examples
along 27th Avenue in a ‘dead-head, straight on’ way like ’commercial archaeologists’ so as
to discover the worthiness and beauty of these everyday structures, which in the
past century have been objects of attraction and fascination for a series of notable artists,
photographers and architects. After this thorough examination and visual collection of
existing gas stations, an additional theoretical seminar will try to historically grasp and
develop an aesthetic understanding of their relevance in the arts, before moving into the
final project phase that will explore their transformative potential. Thus, metamorphosing
from the real into the surreal, on an evolutionary basis we will attempt to envision another
Miami full of possible architectures and magical surprises, fluctuating between issues of
bizarre change and radical continuity. However, with all this optimism at hand, each
initial concept will be rigorously tested in its utopian potential as it faces the more
pragmatic – urban, social, structural, constructive and thermo-dynamical – realities
inherent to the discipline and specific to the tropical condition of Miami. Visual montages,
and if possible also physical models, will be important instruments to achieve the desired
transfigurations which in a meaningful way as social infrastructures should contribute to
their urban settings.

Faculty
Charlotte Von Moos

Time
1:30pm

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Student Names
Michael M Ganom
Tanya Gabriela Rivera
Johnny Edward Laderer
Xingyi Huang
Sofia Francisca Contreras Ojeda
Maria Isabel Lira Adrian
Yemin Yan
Sofia Karina Silva Cadena
Abdullah Yahya A Alyahya
Natalie Castillo
Robin Crowder

Guest Critics
Rodrigo da Costa Lima
Amélia Brandão Costa
Lars Lerup
Florian Idenburg
Reto Geiser
Adib Cure

Studio Description
ARCHITECTURE AS PROCESS: INTRODUCTION TO DESIGN

“Architecture has a complex character, because on the one hand it creates the physical world we live in. It’s an undeniable part of reality, manifests a physical presence, and shapes urban spaces. On the other hand, architecture, just like art, literature and cinema, has a strongly narrative character. As designers, we tell stories through space and material.”

Christ and Gantenbein, Interview 23.11.16

The design studio ARC 604 Architecture as Process serves as the first course in a series of four core studies, one advanced elective studio, and a thesis project in the UM-SoA MArch I program. As such, this course serves as the introduction to the discipline of architecture as a design process. Within this course, a range of architectural conventions and typologies will be introduced, explored, and confronted. The studio will serve as a call to awareness; a heighted and focused sense of observation will be nurtured. The pedagogical objective is the development of architectural thought and methodologies fostered through conceptual and critical conversations, and implemented through the fundamental tools of the architect’s craft.

Faculty
Shawna Meyer
Joachim Perez

Time
9am | Morning Session I

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Time
12pm | Afternoon Session II

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Studio Description
A NATATORIUM @ THE SUTRO BATHS IN SAN FRANCISCO

The Sutro baths and casino out on the beach, just north of Sutro Heights, are rapidly nearing completion.  There is no bathing establishment in this country as large, as complete, as convenient or as luxuriously appointed. 

Once there was a huge depression on the north side of the road that runs to Sutro Heights, and in the depression or gully was a sea of sand, and rock, and seaweed and spray, and the gulls went there to roost.  The Sutro baths and casino will be enclosed, and one of the most desolate and forlorn spots in the world will have been converted into one of the finest structures in the world—if not the finest.
   
Inside these green, glass-covered walls there will be an amphitheater capable of seating 5000 people comfortably.  Here all manner of aquatic entertainments will be provided. Sham naval battles will be held. There will be trapezes without number, springboards galore, and all the athletic appointments that can possibly be employed in aquatic sports.

Excerpted from The Morning Call, San Francisco Sunday August 27, 1893

Image credit: Billington, W. C.  Sutro Baths, looking south, San Francisco, CA, 1897 May 01, U. S. National Park Service

Faculty
Denis Hector

Time
1pm

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Student Names
Olawumi Faith Akinniyi
Maria Cadena
Aleksandra Monika Czaja
Alexandra Nicole Dreybus
Shane Jezowski
Hali Keller
Winston Lee
Chuchen Liu
Maha Tariq Malik
Han Wang
Shifan Wang
Stephen Matthew Wisniew

Studio Descriptions
Fundamentals of real estate development of urban places, including the many challenges of the development process such as analyzing market sectors and development opportunities, comprehending the development context of regulation, public policy and politics, raising investment capital, assembling land, program formulation, building types, construction management, marketing, and sales. Team projects this semester include:

A  SOUTH MIAMI MIXED-INCOME DEVELOPMENT
This project is an actual RFP that the City of South Miami issued for an area immediately west of Red Road Commons. The goal includes infill of mixed income housing including townhomes and apartments. These teams will interact with members of the Related Company who are pursuing this project and students may become involved in public workshops that Related will be holding should their proposal be chosen by the City.

B  MIXED-USE HEALTH DISTRICT FOR DOWNTOWN MISSOULA, MONTANA
These teams will collaborate with an interdisciplinary studio involving the School of Architecture's Urban Design program and the Miami Herbert Business School's Department of Health Management and Policywork. The joint studio will focus on proposals for a health district near the Clark Fork River at the edge of the downtown district of Missoula, Montana which was the recent focus of a Dover Kohl and Partners virtual charrette. The plan calls for the creation of an extensive mixed-use health district and students will reflect on the implications of COVID-19 for the future of healthcare and real estate development in their proposals. Students will also be invited to participate in four optional online seminars organized by the studio.

C  SMALL SCALE DEVELOPMENT
These projects will focus on smaller urban infill lots in urban Miami neighborhoods, primarily Allapattah where land remains comparatively affordable and zoning has been changed under Miami21 to allow for somewhat higher densities, mixed uses and, in locations near transit lines, reduced parking requirements. These are projects that should be feasible for individual entrepreneurs and small firms to finance, build and lease/sell.

D  MEDIUM SCALE COMMERCIAL MIXED-USE SITES
These are sites consisting of multiple acres, typically under single ownership, that are prime redevelopment sites in Coral Gables, Miami, Doral and other metro area locations. Examples from past years: Sears site on Douglas Rd and Coral Way; the Publix site on Lejeune Rd in Coral Gables; the Mediterranean Village site on the east side of Ponce Circle in Coral Gables; a golf course conversion in Doral; repositioning/redevelopment of transitioning retail centers such as Sunset Place and Cocowalk.

E  HIGH-RISE, HIGH INTENSITY URBAN DOWNTOWN SITE
These are downtown urban sites typically zoned for very high intensity, high-rise development for condominium, multifamily, hospitality, office and mixed use projects.

Faculty
Chuck Bohl
Steve Nostrand

Time/Date
9:30am

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Student Names
Julio Alex Albarracin
Corey James Altman
Betina Barbalat
Malak Benmassaoud
Kevin John Buxton
Cece Camacho
Christopher Carbonell
Isabella Sophia Chandris
Daniella P Cioffi
Matteo Colasuonno
Mariana Cordoba
Demetri Adam Demascus
James Richard Farrar
Daniel Walker Gautier
Daniel Golden
Jose Augusto Heighes Sousa
John Lawrence Henneman
David C Holmes
William Hunter Holtz
William Alberto Jacome
Chelsey Marie Kaniewski
Darwyn Lenior Kelly
Kristina Leiter
Isabella Loret De Mola
Jessica Lott
Harry Andrew Mannil
Benjamin Mashaal
Athanasios William Mazas
Taylor Knight McHarg
Rafael Siqueira Martins De Oliveira
Daniel Alberto Otero
Pratik Radadia
Michael Ramirez
David Schulwitz
Krystal Sheppard
Spencer Tiel Sorfleet
Michael Steinbaum
Gian Troche
Emily Dominique Viera
Stephen Michael White
Camila Zablah Jimenez
Chenkai Zhao