The Operative HydroSensus (OHS) project is designed to establish a new relationship between urban residents and their public waters. The OHS is a floating platform that combines bio-mimicry components to improve water quality with sensory technology that measures improvement and broadcasts it on multiple channels. Through a framework of communication and education the OHS will create a way for users to ‘talk to the river’ – receiving immediate information and understanding the effects that changes in the built environment such as catchment basins and green roofs can have on the health of the urban ecosystem.
The HydroSensus project is developed in collaboration with Jenny Chen-Cheng Chou.
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Temp:: has collaborated with Jenny Chou to submit a new and improved version of the floating-remediating-communicating pod to the Next Generation design competition organized by Metropolis Magazine.
The pod offers a new Water User Interface (WUI) for the urban environment, operating in two parallel landscapes – an event landscape and a virtual landscape.
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The i-SHED was submitted to the urbanShed International Design Competition organized by The New York City Buildings Department, AIA New York Chapter and additional partners. The competition called for a new design for the standard NYC construction shed.
A new urban typology, the i-SHED enriches the pedestrian experience. It encourages us to inhabit a previously undesirable space by providing light, water, and a growing range of amenities on the go.
The i-SHED was designed in collaboration with Sylvie Blondeau, Asli Erdem and Chi Ying Shen.
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Operative hydroSenus is a mobile buoyant pod for water monitoring and remediation. 
Combining high- and low-end technology, it operates as constructed wetland, aquaponic farm, monitoring station, and communication platform, addressing site-specific requirements. The project aspires to establish a mutually responsive interface between water and local communities, focused on water related concerns.
[in collaboration with Jenny Chou, with advice from Jessica Banks]
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Tasking New York City public housing projects with new environmental responsibilities that would reframe them as a new armature of urban eco-infrastructure, making them a valid component in the economic stimulus discussion.
PUBLIC (housing) WORKS was a finalist in the Imagining Recovery competition and later published in MONU mangazine.
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Delineated through hydrology, existing suburban patterns can introduce new opportunities for civic responsibility, creating social capital in an environment that lacks sustainable community life.
WATER CAN REDEFINE THE SUBURBS was submitted by Matt Thomas and Lee Altman to the ReBurbia design competition sponsored by Dwell Magazine and Inhabitat.com.
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GROWING INFRASTRUCTURE was submitted to the Red Hook Design Competition organized by the Forum for Urban Design by Manuel Avila and Lee Altman.
It received an Honorable Mention and is displayed on the competition Finalists and Honorable Mentions webpage here. The submitted video (6 min) can be viewed here.
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INTERSECTIONS: GRAND CONCOURSE BEYOND 100 is an international ideas competition organized by the Bronx Museum of the Arts with the Design Trust for Public Space.
Bronx POWERline was submitted to the competition by Luc Vrolijks and Lee Altman, Urban Progress Design; Javier Rojas-Rodriguez, Vestibule-project.
The proposal has been selected by the competition jury to be displayed as part of the Proposal Gallery on the competition website here.
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The RECIPROCITY ZONING project was designed as an entry to the Re:Vision DALLAS competition. The competition called for a very high-density residential block that does no harm, to people or place, while fostering respect for nature and our neighbors, privacy and resources, economy and consumption. The proposal is based on the notion that a city block is an integral part of the urban ecosystem, and should be designed as such, taking advantage of the different flows the city has to offer, social, economic and environmental. The design is informed by a reciprocity matrix, containing 3 realms of resources the project draws on: Natural, Social and Programmatic.
The project was designed with Manuel Avila and Matt Thomas.
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