/SPECULATE
The contested landscape contains its own logics we have yet to discover. Working individually, students will develop a personal, intuitive, and actionable approach to design by proposing an ‘inhabited machine’ for ‘mining’ the contested landscape. The site for the proposal
/SPECULATE
The contested landscape contains its own logics we have yet to discover. Working individually, students will develop a personal, intuitive, and actionable approach to design by proposing an ‘inhabited machine’ for ‘mining’ the contested landscape. The site for the proposal
/EXPLORE
The studio will travel on a ‘distributed road trip’ to sites throughout the pipeline route. Sites, most within an 8-12 hour drive of St. Louis, have been selected as far south as Houston and as far north as North Dakota.
/EXPLORE
The studio will travel on a ‘distributed road trip’ to sites throughout the pipeline route. Sites, most within an 8-12 hour drive of St. Louis, have been selected as far south as Houston and as far north as North Dakota.
/EXTRACT
The studio seeks to extract the logics the ‘contested landscape’, to test assumptions, find evidence to confirm or question the viability of speculations, and test new directions for future study. Working in small groups, the studio will collectively explore a series
/EXTRACT
The studio seeks to extract the logics the ‘contested landscape’, to test assumptions, find evidence to confirm or question the viability of speculations, and test new directions for future study. Working in small groups, the studio will collectively explore a series
/EXPORT
Working individually, students will develop highly original, articulated, and transformative architectural and urban interventions, addressing emergent forms of energy production, infrastructure, and urbanism in the US, and transnational geospatial conditions relative to energy production. It is the unique ability of
/EXPORT
Working individually, students will develop highly original, articulated, and transformative architectural and urban interventions, addressing emergent forms of energy production, infrastructure, and urbanism in the US, and transnational geospatial conditions relative to energy production. It is the unique ability of
Obstruction Belt
The project proposes a regional chemical processing infrastructure which uses energy waste to limit the soft boundary between natural ecosystems and the encroachment of rural industry. Through collaborative acts of civil disobedience, environmentalists around the United States have engaged in a tireless
Obstruction Belt
The project proposes a regional chemical processing infrastructure which uses energy waste to limit the soft boundary between natural ecosystems and the encroachment of rural industry. Through collaborative acts of civil disobedience, environmentalists around the United States have engaged in a tireless
Off-Grid
The project provides a model for ‘un-gridding’ depopulating rural outposts while boosting agricultural and ecological activity in new interregional migration corridors. The Keystone XL pipeline has become a catalyst for the emergence of numerous migrations, setting forth a huge population
Off-Grid
The project provides a model for ‘un-gridding’ depopulating rural outposts while boosting agricultural and ecological activity in new interregional migration corridors. The Keystone XL pipeline has become a catalyst for the emergence of numerous migrations, setting forth a huge population
Mobile Energy Market
The project proposes a mechanism for distributed aerial delivery of energy resources, and a market-driven system of surveillance and feedback, capitalizing on advances in UAV technology. From the moment fossil fuels are extracted from the site, they participate in a complex process largely
Mobile Energy Market
The project proposes a mechanism for distributed aerial delivery of energy resources, and a market-driven system of surveillance and feedback, capitalizing on advances in UAV technology. From the moment fossil fuels are extracted from the site, they participate in a complex process largely
Constructing Future Geologies
The project provides a constructed index of cultural memory and natural resources in a rapidly destabilizing landscape. /Impetus The infiltration of technology on the landscape is one of the most significant things in the debate over the Keystone XL pipeline. The
Constructing Future Geologies
The project provides a constructed index of cultural memory and natural resources in a rapidly destabilizing landscape. /Impetus The infiltration of technology on the landscape is one of the most significant things in the debate over the Keystone XL pipeline. The
Teamster Timeshare
The project capitalizes on excess kinetic energy and rampant speculative investment in a series of ‘boom towns’ to propose a growth engine for a ‘boom corridor’ and ‘energy megaregion’. New corridors of oil ‘boom towns’ in the Upper Midwest are enjoying unprecedented
Teamster Timeshare
The project capitalizes on excess kinetic energy and rampant speculative investment in a series of ‘boom towns’ to propose a growth engine for a ‘boom corridor’ and ‘energy megaregion’. New corridors of oil ‘boom towns’ in the Upper Midwest are enjoying unprecedented
The Bureau of Water Management
The project proposes to repurpose and dramatically expand oil infrastructure for the management of subterranean and prehistoric regional water resources. In developed nations, where complex networks, systems and processes are increasingly consolidated and interconnected, managerial and infrastructural frameworks become necessary
The Bureau of Water Management
The project proposes to repurpose and dramatically expand oil infrastructure for the management of subterranean and prehistoric regional water resources. In developed nations, where complex networks, systems and processes are increasingly consolidated and interconnected, managerial and infrastructural frameworks become necessary
Ethanol Boutique
The project recalibrates economies of scale and shifting resources in the Great Plains by strategically consolidating ethanol production and demand. As progress pushes the world into a greater degree of interconnectivity and the forces of globalization push economic processes to
Ethanol Boutique
The project recalibrates economies of scale and shifting resources in the Great Plains by strategically consolidating ethanol production and demand. As progress pushes the world into a greater degree of interconnectivity and the forces of globalization push economic processes to
Fractured Landscape
The project consolidates emerging flows of waste carbon dioxide to propose new models of sequestration and energy-based tourism. The process of hydraulic fracturing, in addition to oil and natural gas extraction in general, can have a very dramatic effect on
Fractured Landscape
The project consolidates emerging flows of waste carbon dioxide to propose new models of sequestration and energy-based tourism. The process of hydraulic fracturing, in addition to oil and natural gas extraction in general, can have a very dramatic effect on
Shifting Securities
The project provides a model for US military involvement as energy policy shifts from expansionist logics to domestic security. The geopolitical center of oil production is shifting from the Eastern Hemisphere, and will reach the point in the near future where
Shifting Securities
The project provides a model for US military involvement as energy policy shifts from expansionist logics to domestic security. The geopolitical center of oil production is shifting from the Eastern Hemisphere, and will reach the point in the near future where
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