Adam Wiese
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a new beginning _ that starts with a sad story
Why am I researching rammed earth, and why now? Materials have always been a focus for me since joining the design profession. In college, I was immersed in theory, sociology, and psychology of digital and physical space, but I never addressed the physical materials that composed the space; hence, in my past works, they were…
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Center for Research and Museum
“Such an architecture is an aleatory form of “planning” life itself: in the fantastic juxtaposition of its activities each of the club’s floors is a separate installment of an infinitely unpredictable intrigue that extols the complete surrender to the definite instability of life in the Metropolis. (Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan (New…
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Stories From Beyond “The Drop” Arcanum Island
A BREIF HISTORY OF ARCANUM ISLAND The earliest reporting of Arcanum Island dates back to 1918 on the tail end of WWI when it was discovered by a British Empire ship that had been separated from the fleet during a storm. It was said that upon its discovery the islands landscape looked as if “a…
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Derive of the un_urban
“It would be opportunistic if I said either, I told you so, or, basically, you can now tell that [cities] are actually really dangerous environments to live in,” adding, “I think that it’s simply slightly reinforcing the argument that it’s incredibly important to begin to look not necessarily away from cities but at the neglect of the…
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Urban Holistic Health “Aging in the City”
What happens after your “best days” are behind you? After you have become old and wise? Once you have lived a life of connection both digitally and physically. Where do you go to live the latter years of your life? As you age how do you interact with the built environment? How does it interact…
studio ambiguous 