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• 2013-05-07

  

  Interventions

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• 2013-05-03

  Final Thesis Review::Graduate Thesis Studio::Winter 2013::Professor McLain Clutter

• 2013-05-02

  

  at TCAUP Liberty Annex

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  Thesis DONE! (at TCAUP Liberty Annex)

• 2013-04-19

  

  Peritoneal Dialysis Clothing Design

  Breaking through technological innovation in fields of medicine and biotechnology has saved millions of lives from physical afflictions. The developments of medical devices have made significant contributions to improve the health of people all around the world. From small innovations like adhesive bandages, ankle braces, to larger, more complex technologies like MRI machines, robotic prosthetic limbs, and artificial organs. However, the flexibility and design of many life improving and sustaining innovation, like a dialysis machines, can cause many patients very uncomfortable and restricted lifestyles. There is a definite potential in advancing the flexibility of these machine through a simple understanding of the movements and operations of the body and design that have been overlooked in the healthcare industry. This research concentrates on a developing of a technological innovation in clothing design idea, though collaboration of three disciplines: architecture, fashion, and healthcare, in order to enhance the quality of life for many people who depend on peritoneal dialysis treatment.

  Marshall Mcluhan in his book Understanding Media states that clothing is an extension of our skin, it is a mechanism that controls a heat that our body transmits, and skin is what defines us socially. I believe that there is an opportunity to use clothing to redefine the role of technology not only as performativity but an interactive through a direct connection and relationship with the body; the opportunity to explore the possibilities of blurring dialysis device in the perimeters of the body through the clothing design.

  Project #3::Graduate Elective Seminar: Interconnected and Technologically Enhanced: Buildings, Ecologies, Bodies::Winter 2013::Professor Kathy Velikov
  
  

• 2013-03-25

  Intervention time

• 2013-03-15

  

  Rising Above: Strategies for Dealing with Inundation
  
  Flooded grounds.

• 2013-03-01

  Graduate Architecture Portfolio

  First take on my Graduate Architecture Portfolio

• 2013-02-28

  

  Rising Above: Strategies for Dealing with Inundation

  Building Typology Catalog of Amazonian town of Careiro de Varzea

  After close investigation of the site I have divided existing buildings and objects into four typologies: floating, stilt, raised foundation, and slab. Floating includes all the floating residential and commercial buildings, as well as boats and other foreign objects/materials that can stay on top of the water when the flood enters the site. Stilt typologies contain the actual stilt housing, as well as fences, elevated walking bridges, electricity and lighting poles, basically most of the objects that are raised and somehow connected with the ground. I have also discovered some buildings that have raised foundation, which supposed to elevate the interior off the ground in order to protect from water. And the last typology is the slab, typical buildings that have a thin slab and which get flooded the most during the flood season.

  You can see that the second row - Section of the typologies with three different flood levels represented with the dash lines. From the top is the heaviest flood month of May, than March and February.

  On the Plan view you can start noticing which buildings and objects are protected from water the most or get flooded.

  The next step is to start looking at the flood not as a disaster but as an architectural condition. 

  Thesis Winter 2013

• 2013-02-01

  Rising Above: Strategies for Dealing with Inundation
  

  Some recent process work in my thesis studio.

  Documenting seasonal flood levels and behaviors in the city of Careiro de Varzea, Brazil. 

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  Rising Above: Strategies for Dealing with Inundation
  

  First takes on visualizing thesis 

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• 2012-12-29

  In this project I am exploring the ways of creating a new type of civic spaces that can become a part of the modern world and at the same time contain a memory or the window to all that does not disappear, which is the urban environment that surrounds us. Its purpose is to make us become more aware of the surrounding context that we have made for ourselves, in order to build back a sense of who we are as a physical being inhabiting this spaces.

  Proposition Studio::The Politics of Compression, Substrates and Control::Fall 2012::Professor Dawn Gilpin