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New Manhattanvilles: Designing for Sustainable Density
(Prof. Upmanu Lall, Peter Macapia)
This studio will focus on the idea of the Compact City as a means of
developing green and sustainable design. The idea of this studio is to
develop new types of “buildings” that hybridize rather than
segregate uses, as well as investigate new design strategies and technologies
for building envelopes that provide greater and more flexible responses
to the problems of energy consumption. We will also invent ways of incorporating
(or grafting) these new ”Mixed-Use” designs with existing
and historic structures. Our primary site is Columbia’s expansion
plans for Manhattanville – we will design a large-scale project
that weaves housing, laboratories, classrooms, dining services, retail,
and other events etc. into an existing historic community within Harlem.
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