Reseed

Design Studio

Reseed

DS 5A Vertical Studio · Jennifer Chen · with Shuqi (Kirito) Zhang and Xinghan Chen

Space-based technology as infrastructure rather than spectacle: orbital solar power, remote sensing and an orbital seed vault that quietly mediate food security, ecological monitoring and species preservation across planetary scales.

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A Post-Linear Factory

Design Studio

A Post-Linear Factory

DS 4B Vertical Studio · Peter Testa · with Shuqi (Kirito) Zhang

The factory rethought not as a linear apparatus of efficiency but as a post-production landscape for Prada’s upcycling initiatives, structured by fragmentation, visibility and adaptive reuse.

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Sawtooth Horizons

Design Studio

Sawtooth Horizons

DS 3B · Ramiro Diaz Granados · with Hanyue (Vel) Deng

The cultural center as a spatial and performative system: a sequence of sawtooth roof units modulates daylight, section and program at once.

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Between Blocks

Design Studio

Between Blocks

DS 4A · Zeina Koreitem

Student housing as a collective spatial condition: three blocks rotated and displaced to form a shared social core, woven together by ramps and bridges.

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Diptyque

Design Studio

Diptyque

DS 3A · Margaret Griffin

A small housing complex organized by a diptych logic: repetition establishes order while sectional shifts introduce difference, with SANAA’s Seijo Townhouse as organizational model.

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Library

Design Studio

Library

DS 2B · Jennifer Chen

The library as an ecological and organizational system, using pixelation to abstract intensity, density and access from the urban plan into sectional logic.

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Worlds I

Design Studio

Worlds I

DS 2A

A case-study school, CEIP Imaginalia by Diaz Romero Arquitectos, taken apart and rebuilt through four operations: rotate, scale and trim; remove and add; reorganize by plan; split and recreate.

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Objects II

Design Studio

Objects II

DS 1B · Natou Fall

From a video of a simple arm gesture to a small public building: trajectories and forces translated into profiles, envelopes and sectional figures.

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Objects I

Design Studio

Objects I

DS 1A · Kordae Henry

Studio 1A: contemporary design techniques and critical thinking about form, beginning from a found collection of scanned objects, images and textures.

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Describing a Cloud

Visual Studies

Describing a Cloud

VS 1B · David Eskenazi

Tools and techniques for describing architectural form, tested against the impalpable, constantly moving form of a cloud.

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Pack and Unpack

Visual Studies

Pack and Unpack

VS 2A · Jacklin Bloom

A found 3D chair asset translated across representational states, flattened into profiles and recomposed into a compact mass that suspends its original function.

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Future Ruin

Visual Studies

Future Ruin

VS 2B · Jennifer Chen · with Rosa Liang and Zoey Zhou

MVRDV’s Dutch Pavilion reconsidered as a future ruin: repeated translations between plan, section and massing test architecture under decay, intrusion and shifting use.

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