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Anna Livia Brand - Professor, Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
This project explores how racism and racial geographies were reenacted after Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans. It traces the redevelopment of three neighborhoods and the evolution of planning processes and development decisions, asking who they most benefit and who they most exclude...
Social SciencesAnna Livia Brand - Professor, Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Black meccas have been characterized by their economic and political opportunities and their cultural and social characteristics. Known for drawing African Americans to specific urban territories, black meccas have historically brought Blacks great social, economic, and psychological benefits, despite the vast inequalities and denigration they have faced in America. Yet...
Social SciencesAnna Livia Brand - Professor, Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
This project explores systems of patriarchy through a feminist lens, conceptualizing the everydayness and ubiquity of patriarchal power. Drawn initially from personal experiences, I am interested in naming the divergent array of patriarchal practices and conceptually mapping the various ways that patriarchy and anti-feminist systems imprint spatial and social...
Social SciencesLiz Galvez - Professor, Architecture
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
Project Description: Cooling centers typically utilize existing buildings to provide air-conditioned spaces, offering citizens immediate relief from high temperatures. Yet, as an emerging architectural typology, many of these centers lack design direction. They are conceived as emergency buildings often without essential amenities like food, natural daylighting, fresh air, or...
Engineering, Design & TechnologiesLiz Galvez - Professor, Architecture
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
Project Description: This project addresses the challenges posed by extreme weather conditions and growing energy instability by exploring experimental approaches to managing interior environments. The research proposes architectural strategies that allow for multiplicity of indoor climates and environmental management. To bridge academic exploration with real-world applications, the project culminates...
Engineering, Design & TechnologiesLiz Galvez - Professor, Architecture
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
Project Description: From Wood to Tree is an open air pavilion that explores environmental methodologies for returning lumber to the forest by examining the qualities of deadwood and degradation as a possibility for design. Much has been said about the making of wood, and yet one of its most prescient...
Engineering, Design & TechnologiesKristina Hill - Professor, Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Air pollution can have major effects on people's health, with impacts ranging from asthma to Type II diabetes. We wanted to support SF Bay Area disadvantaged communities by giving them data that tracks their exposure to pollutants like PM2.5. By making an interpolated surface of Purple Air sensor data for...
Environmental Issues Biological & Health SciencesYehuda Kalay - Professor, Architecture
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
The performance of healthcare facilities is an important issue due to the high value of the services they provide on one hand, and the high cost of constructing and operating them on the other. Various disciplines have offered measures to assess such performance, focusing on different indicators. The healthcare industry...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Digital Humanities and Data ScienceLu Liang - Professor, Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
The urban heat island phenomenon, characterized by significantly higher temperatures in urban areas compared to surrounding rural areas, is a critical global challenge with significant social and environmental impacts. While satellite remote sensing provides valuable data on land surface temperatures, it does not directly measure the ambient air temperatures that...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Environmental IssuesLu Liang - Professor, Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Understanding urban climate dynamics, such as the Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect, requires comprehensive datasets on urban morphology and land cover. Local Climate Zones (LCZs) provide a standardized framework for classifying urban and rural areas based on their physical and surface properties. A global LCZ database is essential for analyzing...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Environmental IssuesRamon Weber - Professor , Architecture
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
The UN predicts a doubling of floor area until 2050, estimating a fantastic 230 billion square meters of buildings to be built in the next decades. Meanwhile, buildings should drastically lower their carbon emissions and energy use in order to avoid climate disasters. The project tackles this question with a...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Digital Humanities and Data ScienceRamon Weber - Professor , Architecture
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Engineering, Design & Technologies Digital Humanities and Data Science