Arrivals

Arrivals Public Art + Infrastructure Project

Winner of an open public competition, “Arrivals” is a public art and infrastructure project at the Mosher St. Underpass in Holyoke, Massachusetts. The project transforms a key gateway between downtown Holyoke and an adjacent residential neighborhood into a safe, inviting, and creative attraction.

Authors: Joseph Krupczynski and Caryn Brause

Ecological Mediators: Fostering Resilient, Connected and Accessible Riverscapes for Quebec City

ECOLOGICAL MEDIATORS Fostering Resilient, Connected and Accessible Riverscapes for Quebec City

This design project offers resilient solutions along each of Quebec City’ four rivers of Cap-Rouge, Saint-Charles, Beauport and Montmorency by considering natural and anthropogenically-altered hydrologic fluctuations (tides, sea level rise, flooding) that define the ecosystems, casting the rivers as mediators of these changing environmental conditions.

Project Author: Pari Riahi
Project Team: Rachel Loeffler, Allison Roy, Kevin McManus and Michael Caine

El Corazón - The Heart of Holyoke

This is a creative place-making project whose primary objective is to develop spaces of belonging and inclusion for the largest per-capita Puerto Rican community in the diaspora.

Project Authors: Joseph Krupczynski and Caryn Brause

Project Team: Clayton Beaudoin (student)

Forestation Syncopation

Forestation Syncopation Design

Forestation Syncopation is an original Public Artwork owned by MTA Long Island Rail Road and commissioned by Metropolitan Transportation Authority/Arts & Design in New York.

Project Author: Sandy Litchfield

Gateway House--Northampton

Just Big Enough Green House for All

This project was a local government competition, Just Big Enough - small lots | small units | BIG IDEAS, sponsored by the City of Northampton, MA. Its purpose was to encourage sustainable development, increase affordable housing, and preserve critical open space.

Project Author: Stephen Schreiber

Project Team: Jane Thurber (Department of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning) and student Ryan Rendano

Public Domain: Istanbul Biennale 2012 - Adhocracy

Public Domain Design

This project’s physical installation invited the Istanbul Biennale visitors to temporarily inhabit the created landscapes and leave traces of their own. The project installation was an open structure where the process of making traces has already been started.

Project Author: Pari Riahi

Project Team: Pari Riahi Architects and C+S Architects teams

Solar River: Mapping Infrastructural Territories

Silver River solar array around mountain

Solar River maps of the territory of water infrastructure in the Southwest U.S.

Project Author: Jordan Kanter

Project Team: Jordan Kanter, Benjamin Lepley