ARCH 4980: B. Arch Final Project 1

TransverCity: the CLOUD Institution

Faculty: CARLA LEITÃO

In the CLOUD Thesis, we will look into a possible future in the design of institutions which takes serious advantage of two inter-related characters: ultra-locality and remote connection. For this, will use two main attitudes of tectonic research: advanced material sensitivity and/or connectivity, and distributed form or protocol.

The main program we will work with is that of the Archive/Library and its increasingly twin brother: Education and Learning.

The context of study/research for the Thesis is the distant year of 2048, and the emerging classes of materials which architects will take advantage of and help structure specifications for.

The studio will therefore focus on finding a particular optimum and optimistic relationship between a potential materially-induced-and-derived environmental/ambient/weather behavior and a cultural interest in a program institutionalization.

The research engages speculations on how the future of material specifications might start to unfold together with that of institutions. And how this relationship might increasingly create places and contexts, which are related with physical regions but not be bound by them. Simultaneously, we will take particular care of evidencing the new needs for ultra-local sensitivity for any future spatially built structure.

Overall, the CLOUD studio allows students to take Comprehensive Design to a whole new level, by researching, speculating, modeling, and evidencing the potential of highly sensitive relationships between material tectonics and assemblies, environmental qualities and programmatic conditions.