EDWARD JIVKOV RADEV

The act of creating volumes through a programmatic convergence, is a direct architectural act that intersects multiple disciplines into a single collaborative work environment. The volumes are an assemblage of interdisciplinary work spaces each with a prescribed function that relates to the other through architectural juxtaposing. A new relationship is created through the previous assumptions that each function of a factory should remain separate. Simultaneously architecture that assumes divergent figuration’s can destabilize sociopolitical norms. Rather than reifying the status quo, such architecture proactively and productively opens up a new angle to the world.

2017

Advisors -

Dagmar Richter_Anthony Buccelato

A prototype for advocating the future of renewable energy. Tesla will be the sponsor for the project as they are leaders in the sustainability movement. It displays the potential of renewable sources of energy to the public. Projecting into the near future, technology cannot run on fossil fuels as it once did, contemporary consumer capitalism has proven incapable of instituting drastic change. The proposal constitutes not only of the need to seize the means of production, but to transform them. Architecturally it intends to show transparency of what the future has to be. It will educate the public on sustainability must be in order to create a more prosperous society; free of fossil fuel depended technology that allow people to can get around without adding to the carbon footprint; parks and gardens that offer respite from daily life; support for arts and culture; and plentiful spaces for public educational as well as recreational use.

2017

Advisor -

Lawrence Blough

What is the role of form, the algorithm, and craft in contemporary architectural practice? The experience of the train car is never really about the departure or destination but rather the grey area in between the two. The idea of site and program is a temporal one. The train car itself serves only as a gestural reminder of the culture that surrounds the passing train. The kimono is the cultural inspiration for the formal expression of the car. With the gradient of colors that create the traditional garments. These conditions of cultural, environmental and geographic characteristics are the lines that become integral in the design.

2017

Advisors -

Richard Sarrach_Eric Wong