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AAP's Ecological Action Lab Highlights Plastic and Water Waste with Tallinn Architecture Biennale Sculpture
Friendship WC (Water Chandelier) shines a light on the dual dilemma of global water scarcity and the relentless growth of plastic pollution.
Investing in Washington State Changemakers: Meet the 20 Awardees of the AI for Good Lab's Open Call
Circular Construction Lab, directed by Assistant Professor of Architecture Felix Heisel, was an awardee of the AI for Good Lab's open call to support innovative AI-based projects. Their project will enable essential technical and methodological support to the circular lumber economy.
New Standards Aim to Make Building Construction Less Wasteful
Propmodo: Propmodo's coverage of the benefits of circular construction techniques includes discussion of Architecture Assistant Professor Felix Heisel's work with the Circular Construction Lab to reclaim elements of buildings set for demolition.
David Costanza
David Costanza is the principal of David Costanza Studio (DCS), a design-build practice based in Ithaca, New York. Costanza is also an assistant professor at Cornell University AAP and director of the Building Construction Lab (BCL). Through practice, research, and teaching, his work questions the linearity of design processes, defining new terrains for architectural interventions across scales while establishing a dialogue between representation, computational design tools, digital manufacturing, building science, building materials, construction, labor, and the environment. Currently, he is working on a book project with Routledge publishers titled "Curious Constructions: Around Materials, Labor, and the Environment," a deep-energy low-carbon reconstruction in Ithaca, New York...
3/7–3/8 Preston H. Thomas Memorial Symposium: Labor Un:Imagined
Hear from scholars whose research delves into the experiences, actors, and technologies of construction labor and, in so doing, pushes against the over-imagination and under-representation of building workers in architectural histories.
Marta H. Wisniewska
Marta H. Wisniewska is an architect and urban planner whose research and teaching promote alternative building materials and investigate their applications in local building sectors in developed and developing territories. Wisniewska is a Lecturer and the Director of the Regenerative Architecture Lab at Cornell AAP. The lab is primarily a space for research and hands-on experimentation with cultivated and regenerative alternative building materials that positively impact the natural environment as well as the health of users, manufacturers, and builders...
Spring 2022: A Look Ahead
Following two years of extraordinary effort and resolve, flexibility, imagination, and creativity fuel the upcoming semester.
4/8 Marirena Kladeftira: A Post-Digital Perspective for Architecture and Humanity
Attend a lecture that explores how emerging fabrication technologies can contribute to eco-social sustainability in architecture by enabling lightweight and circular building systems that respect local contexts.
Town-Gown Awardees Foster Business, Community, Sustainability
CR0WD receives 14th annual Town-Gown Award; congratulations Circular Construction Lab, Felix Heisel (AAP); Just Places Lab, Jenni Minner (AAP); Susan Christopherson Center for Community Planning, Gretchen Worth (M.A. HPP '20); Preservation Association of Central New York, Andrew Roblee (M.A. HPP '17); Finger Lakes ReUse; and Historic Ithaca.
5/11–9/3 Deconstructing Demolition: An Exhibition on Salvage, Reuse and Deconstruction
Explore alternative demolition through this Circular Construction Lab / Just Places Lab cocurated exhibition, part of the partner network CR0WD (Circularity, Reuse and Zero Waste Development).
