< PreviousJOURNAL 100 101 JOURNAL Department | Prof. Renee Jacobs FAS 355, Cross-listed INT 355 Trend Forecasting Tiny Homes CATHLEEN BRIERTY FAS 01. Housing Crisis 2008: Resulted in foreclosures, left those looking for less expensive alternatives. 02. Trend Pendulum Our ancestors lived in small abodes. The pendulum is swinging for that want to go back to our roots. 03. Nature We want to be immersed in nature. We have been too focused on technology. Material items lacking importance. 04. Sustainability With the threat of climate change, we look to reduce our impact on the Earth.JOURNAL 102 103 JOURNAL Department | Prof. Renee Jacobs FAS 355 Trend Forecasting Vulnerability SOPHIA STELLAS FAS Macro-trend: Vulnerability Open to uncomfort and exposure. What is missing in our lives? Discover unknowns about yourself. Embrace love, slowing down, intimacy, touch and being uncovered. Growth and maturity.JOURNAL 104 105 JOURNAL The project is based on the location of the existing trees and each tree was taken into consideration for the organization of all the equipment. The playground area is extended and new, non-archetypical play structure is designed around the trees. Elevated volumes can be accessed by staircases and ropes to be climbed by the kids, offering a contemporary interpretation of the idea of “tree houses”. Architecture | Prof. Margherita Bagiacchi ARC 269 Public Space Design Tree House Playground ARC ANA SOFIA TREVIÑO VASQUEZJOURNAL 106 107 JOURNAL Two piazzas. Formal and informal, over and under, earth and water: a contradiction. This dichotomy is enlarged and is played through architectural devices, thus creating a sacred bond, a dialogue, a balance. A vegetable garden is imposed with authority on the main piazza. A place to gather and a social node for the neighborhood. A community formed by collaboration. The informal piazza above retains its free and flexible spirit while subtly connected to the one on top. A whisper between two opposites, a tangible language for what it is not. A spatial antinomy. Architecture | Prof. Margherita Bagiacchi ARC 269 Public Space Design Two Piazzas and a Vegetable Garden (a spatial antinomy) Mid-term ARC ALAN ARTURO ANGUIANO JIMÉNEZJOURNAL 108 109 JOURNAL Modernity has overtaken us; the absurd reigns. Humans revolt endlessly through life in a dance with the mundane. We live in a world that refuses to be understood. The project aims to break modernity by contraposing a tangible lyricism. This design doesn’t pretend to solve modernity, but to provide a victory within the perpetual non-existence of oneself. Different artistic explorations of space were studied. What was sought was a particular merge between that spatial intimacy and a palpable lyric atmosphere. By an abstraction of these expressions, specific follies were designed. The follies define a spatial exploration through physicality and the senses. It is aimed as a playground both for kids and adults. This is achieved by an ambiguity that provides interpretation and a constant fracture of the futile - a materialization of onirism. Architecture | Prof. Margherita Bagiacchi ARC 269 Public Space Design Sixteen Follies ARC ALAN ARTURO ANGUIANO JIMÉNEZNext >