To prepare for C40 Solutions – a Global Sustainable Design Exhibition, Sustainable Pratt in collaboration with the Academic Director of Sustainability and Design 21 issued a call for entries to all Pratt Institute departments.
We received entries from Interior Design, Industrial Design, Digital Arts, Architecture, Urban Design and City Planning. These diverse entries can be viewed here and at the Design 21/ Sustainable Pratt site.
Entries will be juried by Debera Johnson: Center for Sustainable Design Studies, Jacqui Khiu: Design 21, Donna Moran: School of Art and Design, and Green Week Keynote Speaker Paul Polak. Winning Entries will be announced and displayed Thursday, March 27th at 5:30 PM in the Higgins Hall Pitt prior to the commencement of Paul Polak's presentation.
Evan Dublin of Undergraduate Industrial Design submitted a set of three environmentally-minded products:
The Graduate School's Comprehensive Architectural Project Studio & Integrated Building Systems class submitted their Community Natatorium. This program represented a range of challenges, including design for both humid and dry climates, responding to the needs of interior and exterior wet environments, and designing structures to accommodate both large and small spans. The Studio emphasized the use of local topographies, environments, social and economic histories, means and methods as a source for constructing the project design. The students were given flexibility to adjust the ratio of outdoor and indoor space in response to local climatic conditions.
The studio was divided into 4 climatic regions;
Graduate Architecture student Sian Yew Lian entered with a Generative Wind Component — a stunning structure meant to harness wind energy.
The Undergraduate School of Architecture entry is Crisis Fronts — a collaborative work by: Katie Adee, James Balduf, Asta Fivgas, Natasha Harper, Randall Hornung, Irene Huang, Jung Hyuck, Dimitris Kaprinis, Yohan Kim and Paul Stein.
Crisis Fronts examines the contribution of architecture to global climate change....."Projected further into the future, architecture and weather may longer be simply distinguishable from one another and architecture must be equipped to perform as its own environmental system, reinforcing rather than denying its capacity to enter into a dynamic exchange of energies with the climate. Such a meteorological approach has the potential to redefine the material, organizational, programmatic and performative dimensions of architecture."
Undergraduate Architecture student Brendan Sheehan designed a poster for the exhibit, entitled Sustainability as Context
Robert Panko designs with sustainable materials and living wall components in his Integrative Healing Center and Maya Visitor Center — a collaborative effort with fellow student Louis Tzu-Chieh Lin.
These projects are on display in the Green Materials exhibit in the Juliana Curran Terian Design Center Gallery, open 10am – 5pm daily during Green Week.)
Graduate Interior Design Students were challenged to design a space for ToySource, a sustainable toy store for all ages in Brooklyn.
Hallie Trattner, Yoshiko Iobe and Eileen Diaz focus on garnering LEED points while creating a fluid interior landscape.
Andrea Ferrer, Susan Lam and Kristen L'esperance examine the social context of sustainable design in their ToySource design.
Both of these projects are on display in the Green Materials exhibit in the Juliana Curran Terian Design Center Gallery, open 10am – 5pm daily during Green Week.
Graduate Students Melissa Schroder, Margot Walker, and Juliana Zambrano examine the challenges in planning for a carbon neutral city in THIS IS NOT GARBAGE. This entry challenges the entire concept of "waste" and the infrastructure designed to "manage" it. The film was created to disseminate educational information concerning an integrated neighborhood-scale materials reuse and recovery program.
While Kurt Altschul, Sergio Espriella and Sanksshep Mahendra propose ways to mitigate the heat island effect in their film ENViHarlem: A New Landscape
Sustainable Development Studio students Miyuki Fujibayashi, William Mackay, Kevin Reilly, Jaime Stein, Preston Worsham and Alex Zamudio propose a comprehensive sustainability plan for the Brooklyn Navy Yard, focusing on the Navy Yard's reliance on automobiles for transportation of employees and products. The group proposes a combination of Bus Rapid Transit Lines and Bicycle sharing to bring the Navy Yard from Isolation to Circulation
Pratt Institute Alumnus Annie Clark suggests ways to mitigate storm water run off and implement storm water management practices on Pratt's Campus.
Architecture students Saro Gumusyan & Paul Stein have designed a Roofscape formed by skylight units with photovoltaic cells inserted betwenn units.
Danielle Dirr has utilized cradle to cradle thinking in Bicycle Tree NYC, a proposed design for bicycle rental Kiosks in NYC. Danielle's organic structure is inspired by the work of MIT designers and attempts to create a built environment that allows nature and man to co-exist.
This project is on display in the Green Materials exhibit in the Juliana Curran Terian Design Center Gallery, open 10am – 5pm daily during Green Week.
Urban Design students, Raphael Alba, Joanna Cuevas and Benjamin Keiser, envision a Harlem of the future, where renewable energy is generated locally.
City as Pulse: Renewable Energy in Harlem
The students advocate using technologies which intertwine, re-circulating energy throughout the community like a heartbeat. Technologies include; hydrogen fuel, wind, aquaponics and oxygen extraction as local sources of filtration and solar energy.