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The live - work - gallery lies in the pub-lic green space of Ann Arbor’s Arboretum. The year-round building serves as a public gallery in a natural setting, with a private live-work space for a single student respon-sible for tending to the public gallery and its patrons. The upper level of the gallery operates as a year-round greenhouse with large glazing to allow sunlight and heat to enter, and a fissure to allow ventilation and passage. Each glazed surface has been ori-ented to or away from the sun’s position in the sky based on desired seasonal experi-ences. Surfaces throughout the structure come together and split apart to create pas-sageways, entrances, and exits to the gal-lery without ever inturrupting circulation. L

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Where once the factories and complexes of an am-bitious automotive industry dotted the map across Detroit, now lay endless brownfields and abandoned pollutants left contaminating much of the city’s soils beyond potential use. The Center for Urban Agriculture and Soils provides a local research and education facility to study contaminated soils and their rehabilitation made possible through the in-stallation of certain plants, with hopes of ultimately transforming Detroit’s decrepit brownfields into lush greenspaces. The building has been divided vertically into public and research spaces, and the floorplates have been split and shifted at the glazed division planes. The staggered floorplates give the public an exhibitionary view of the research ocur-ring at multiple levels on the other side of the glass as they stroll through the public gardens. A large atrium space and prevalent south-facing windows fill the building with light, while a double facade curbs heat gain in the building and also serves as a rain screen. C.U

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Industry fades more and more from the banks of the Hudson River as we progress, but careless contami-nation decade after decade has left water recre-ation in the famed river undesirable to her patrons. At the southern tip of Manhattan along the eastern bank of the Hudson River sits Battery Park, a fa-vorite destination for residents and tourists alike. Recreation in this area is further limited, though, due to constrained walkways and a forbidding sea wall. When these boundaries become differenti-ated, the wall dissolves into a series of pathways and roofscapes that extend the park into the Hud-son River. The water is welcomed into the project through a series of constructed wetlands that serve to step-filter sediments and contaminants from the river water as it flows through a series of pools for fresh recreational use just past the Battery Park sea wall. The clean water trickles indoors as it maneu-vers the wetlands to allow for seasonal use in New York’s four season climate. The recreation planes and pathways slide above and below each other in space, to allow for layered usage while taking the Hudson’s fluctuating tides into consideration. BR

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After producing over 4.5 million tons of ore valued at over $200 million, the copper mines at Kennecott closed in 1938 and the small town was abandoned. Most of the town’s buildings survived a halfhearted demolition attempt in the 1960s, and the town of Kennecott was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1986. The National Park Service acquired much of the land within the Kennecott Mill Town in 1998 and soon thereafter began the arduous process of documenting the town’s buildings for restoration and preserva-tion. The 14-story mill building stands proudly as the hallmark of the town, but the relentless load of the surrounding tailings and harsh Alaskan weather continue to threaten its integrity. In 2005, a design team was assembled to evaluate the imposing structure and develop the best methods to go about stablizing the timber foun-dation and framing. A site visit was conducted by the team in the summer of 2010 to further investigate the structure and develop a plan for a tie-back foundation anchoring system before construction documents are produced. KE

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