This report examines the patterns of residential development in Southern California and proposes a synthetic design strategy that aims at creating an urban form that is productive and adapted to the local geographic conditions. Taking regionally endemic water scarcity, flash floods and fire risk as the predominant guiding phenomenon, we propose to leverage the local phenomena of soil contamination and pervasive foreclosure as catalysts for urban revision in the City of San Bernardino. The aim is to yield an urban prototype that can mitigate the current dependency on heavy infrastructures that are at capacity, deteriorating, or whose sources have been depleted.

To achieve this goal the project cross cuts through San Bernardino’s hydrological, geological, infrastructural, urban, and architectural conditions, and proposes their necessary integration as a design challenge, but also as a challenge of institutional collaboration. The subsequent design proposal intentionally implies a reconfiguration of current spatial policies as well as inter-institutional management as indispensable prerequisites to imagine a viable future for development in City of San Bernardino The project thus tries to re-imagine the way we conceive urban planning, landscape and infrastructure, where they are not viewed side by side in parallel fashion, but rather are integrated in a symbiogenetic fashion into a new whole.

Boston Metro Area land zoned industrial to be considered for post-industrial redevelopment.

Mapping access to safe water in Ghana to support the promotion and sale of household water treatment and safe storage (HWTS) technologies in the Northern Region of Ghana.

Reconstructing sea surface temperatures over the last 10,000 years using algal biomarkers from sediment cores.