Chip-budDing: Garage, Garden, Graphics
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Title
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Chip-budDing: Garage, Garden, Graphics
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Description
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Chip-budDing is a horticultural adaptation of Peabody Terrace’s garage, designed by Josep Lluís Sert. In both its concept and its method, this thesis adopts the horticultural technique of 'chip budding' as a model for the ecological adaptation of an existing building. In both public aesthetics — ‘eco-brutalism’ is the most popular architecture-related prompt for AI-imaging technologies—and critical inquiry—the emergence of arguments against the conventional “growth” of the built environment—specific designs are connected to environment ethics. This thesis pursues an 'ABC' of techniques to develop a design intervention into existing urban situation: C) Graphics - Chipping archival stock: Using the digitized drawings from the Sert archive as the site of the project; B) Garden - Grafting metasequoias: Using dawn redwoods as a 'metaphor bud' that spur a modular architecture intervention; A) Garage - Budding new housing: Using modular tiling inspired by both forestation and textile to design an 'eco-brutalist-style' transformation of infrastructure.
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Creator
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Wang, Mengfei
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Subject
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Adaptation
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Eco-brutalism
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Garage
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Garden
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Graphics
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Technique
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Architecture
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Aesthetics
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Artificial intelligence
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Contributor
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Zeifman, Emmett
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Date
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2024-09-26T12:07:53Z
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2024
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2024-05-21
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2024
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2024-09-26T12:07:53Z
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Type
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Thesis or Dissertation
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text
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Format
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application/pdf
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application/pdf
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application/octet-stream
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Identifier
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Wang, Mengfei. 2024. Chip-budDing: Garage, Garden, Graphics. Master's thesis, Harvard Graduate School of Design.
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31300074
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https://nrs.harvard.edu/URN-3:HUL.INSTREPOS:37379529
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0009-0002-7037-0632
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Language
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en