North Christian Church, Bats, Pollinators, Insects, Sanctuary, Grid, Landscape, Trees, Gathering, Eero Saarinen, Dan Kiley
Bat Sanctuary
by Gabrielle Morales
B.S.Arch ‘21, M.Arch ‘22 University at Buffalo
What if we designed spaces for a species the way we design them for ourselves? Bat Sanctuary is a proposal that challenges our perceptions of a species commonly portrayed in a negative light. Bats are crucial to environmental health and deserve the same amount of consideration we would give ourselves.
Columbus, Indiana is the home to many significant architectural works including North Christian Church by Eero Saarinen. Everything about this building as well as the landscape its sited on designed by Dan Kiley puts the focus on shaping human experience. What if we were to take North Christian Church designed as a sanctuary for humans and mirror those concepts to create a sanctuary for bats? This project works to combine geometries from the existing landscape and ideal conditions for bat habitats to do just that.
by Gabrielle Morales
B.S.Arch ‘21, M.Arch ‘22 University at Buffalo
What if we designed spaces for a species the way we design them for ourselves? Bat Sanctuary is a proposal that challenges our perceptions of a species commonly portrayed in a negative light. Bats are crucial to environmental health and deserve the same amount of consideration we would give ourselves.
Columbus, Indiana is the home to many significant architectural works including North Christian Church by Eero Saarinen. Everything about this building as well as the landscape its sited on designed by Dan Kiley puts the focus on shaping human experience. What if we were to take North Christian Church designed as a sanctuary for humans and mirror those concepts to create a sanctuary for bats? This project works to combine geometries from the existing landscape and ideal conditions for bat habitats to do just that.
NEW NATURES: NEW MIDDLES
UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO
SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE AND PLANNING
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UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO
SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE AND PLANNING
ECOLOGICAL PRACTICES RESEARCH GROUP GRADUATE STUDIO
In parallel with the 2020-21 Exhibit Columbus cycle, titled “New Middles: From Main Street to Megalopolis,” the Spring 2021 UB Ecological Practices studio explored the city of Columbus Indiana, its legacy of architecture and landscape design as civic projects, and developed speculative architectural interventions that reflect on Columbus’ design history while also responding to contemporary social and ecological conditions in the city and region. The sites for each proposal are centered in/around the city, but the aim is to speak more broadly to ways that design can impact the future of the American heartland and regions connected by the Mississippi Watershed. In the words of this year’s curators Mimi Zeiger and Iker Gil, “New Middles builds upon Columbus’ legacy as a laboratory for design as civic investment. In a moment when we most need reflection, creativity, and innovation to envision new ways of being, New Middles considers Columbus a place to destabilize assumptions, and imagine new architectures and landscapes as a way to positively move our cities forward.”
In parallel with the 2020-21 Exhibit Columbus cycle, titled “New Middles: From Main Street to Megalopolis,” the Spring 2021 UB Ecological Practices studio explored the city of Columbus Indiana, its legacy of architecture and landscape design as civic projects, and developed speculative architectural interventions that reflect on Columbus’ design history while also responding to contemporary social and ecological conditions in the city and region. The sites for each proposal are centered in/around the city, but the aim is to speak more broadly to ways that design can impact the future of the American heartland and regions connected by the Mississippi Watershed. In the words of this year’s curators Mimi Zeiger and Iker Gil, “New Middles builds upon Columbus’ legacy as a laboratory for design as civic investment. In a moment when we most need reflection, creativity, and innovation to envision new ways of being, New Middles considers Columbus a place to destabilize assumptions, and imagine new architectures and landscapes as a way to positively move our cities forward.”
UB ARCHITECTURE
FACULTY
Joyce Hwang, Associate Professor, Exhibit Columbus University Design Research Fellow 2021
STUDIO STUDENTS
Nicholas Blackwell
Cristian Copete
Bethany Greenaway
John Henning
Samanatha Kalinski
Marietta Koeberle
Mitchel Mesi
Gabrielle Morales
Madelaine Ong
Yogesh Ravichandar
Ayushi Vora
Ben Wemesfelder
FACULTY
Joyce Hwang, Associate Professor, Exhibit Columbus University Design Research Fellow 2021
STUDIO STUDENTS
Nicholas Blackwell
Cristian Copete
Bethany Greenaway
John Henning
Samanatha Kalinski
Marietta Koeberle
Mitchel Mesi
Gabrielle Morales
Madelaine Ong
Yogesh Ravichandar
Ayushi Vora
Ben Wemesfelder