Helsinki is an international city built on an intimate scale. Through harsh winters and heavy monsoons, Helsinki has become a city of interiors. Its society blooms indoors. This proposal for HelsinkiCall: The Design House competition, designed by Lyric Barnik, embraces this quality. It provides opportunities for cultural and artistic exchange. It borrows elements from the vernacular of the countryside, the ubiquity of the sauna and the evolution of Helsinki as a city. Form The form...
Monday and Thursday are studio days. On these days in particular, the third floor undergraduate studio is filled with a frenetic energy of design, research, and exploration. Students can usually be found talking excitedly with design professors and classmates in a habitat saturated with trace sketches, study models, and empty coffee cups. Every week we’ll share a completed project, churned out from this energetic studio environment. Interested in having your work featured on our STUDENT WORK series?...
THESIS WORK features Kate Jackson’s development of her thesis HOUSE (CRAFT) which proposes a “relocatable” housing typology for the millennial generation which appropriates underutilized parking lots to build vibrant communities.
Amr El-Bahrawy will defend his thesis, “A House of No Importance: The rise and fall of Nasr City’s middle class extended family houses” on Thursday, January 15, 2015, at 11:00 am in ARC 2026. The thesis critically explores the relocation of middle-class, intergenerational households in urban apartment building typologies in the Cairene residential district of Nasr City to emerging suburban developments on Cairo’s periphery.
