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Collaborating With Catastrophe | A User's Guide To Post-Apocalyptic Farming, Patricia Cafferky
Collaborating With Catastrophe | A User's Guide To Post-Apocalyptic Farming, Patricia Cafferky
Architecture Senior Theses
“Collaborating with Catastrophe” contends that architecture has the capacity to visually manifest unseen forces through design’s reaction to them, allowing people to more fully comprehend and engage the intangible. Climate change, arguably the largest threat to modern day humanity, is not visible, existing only as a collection of data and patterns in a statistical construct. Taking stock of the present day failings of society in the face of crisis, this thesis then extrapolates a potential future dystopia precipitated by man-made pollutants in order to engage the problem at its most severe. Architecture is then able to make the toxic visible …
The Seed | Urban Vertical Farming Germinated, Michael Lima
The Seed | Urban Vertical Farming Germinated, Michael Lima
Architecture Senior Theses
A city works as an ecosystem in many ways. However, we currently do not live within that ecosystem, as the difference between an ecosystem and a city is the waste output and food input . Nature and society do not exist independently because there are no spaces of nature unaffected by man. With this in mind we need to reestablish our relationship with nature. Architecture and engineering can be used to create buildings that will allow humans to turn cities into ecosystems. This thesis argues that Urban Vertical Farms will produce social and economic hubs that will be a new …