Research

There is no more powerful tool in storytelling than a memorable image. The documentation of a landscape could be executed in a multitude of different ways, however, few capture the attention and imagination of the viewer like aerial imagery. Aerial imagery provides us an opportunity to see our own world in impossible ways, it allows us to take flight and look down upon our landscapes, cities, and ultimately ourselves instilling within us a sense of humbleness and modesty towards the fragility of our planet.

The goal of this project is to document the current state of the landscape in the Great Plains region of the US. The method of the project is a continuous drone film, covering nearly 1000 miles.  Our aim is to document and expose the scale and traces of climate change induced droughts, methodologies being used to mitigate the increasing water shortage, and to predict the trans-formative future that is in store for the landscape. While we are not specifically calling for any conservation efforts with this project we wholeheartedly believe that there is a dire need for a fresh and new way to document and study the landscapes we are transforming.

As an architect, I have been using the cutting-edge technology of Dall-E to explore new architectural ideas and push the boundaries of what is possible in my field. With Dall-E, I am able to generate high-quality images from text prompts, allowing me to quickly and easily experiment with different design concepts.

One of the most exciting aspects of using Dall-E for me is the ability to quickly generate a wide range of visual options for a given project. This allows me to explore different possibilities and make informed decisions about the design direction I want to take. Additionally, Dall-E's ability to generate images from text prompts means that I can communicate my ideas and concepts to others in a clear and easy-to-understand way.

HarvardxDesign is a collaborative student organization among groups at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, Harvard Business School, Harvard College, and other organizations from across the Boston community. Since 2012, xDesign's annual conference aims to bring together creative thinkers, design luminaries, professors, industry leaders, and students to engage, debate, and reinterpret the design process. By promoting a culture of collaboration, we strive to share experiences across disciplines, explore pressing global issues, and empower students to become change agents through design.

The fibrous tectonics studio investigates new methodologies, arrangements, and applications of composite-fiber materials, namely carbon and glass fibers which are saturated in epoxy resin. The aim of the investigation is to propose an innovative system of deploying these specific materials.

Our system combines the traditional textile technique of knitting with inflatable pneumatic membranes to create composite-fiber structures. We see these two techniques as inherently complementary. The pneumatic membrane is able to pretension the fibers of the knit surface and expand it into a spatial- and form-active volume while knitting allows the fibrous surface to be behaviorally and topologically programmed, which, in turn, determines how the pneumatic membrane inflates. The resulting configuration of fibers is then saturated with resin and cured into a rigid structure.

Demir Purisic, Joseph Varholick, Yuan Gao, Zahra Safaverdi

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There is no more powerful tool in storytelling than a memorable image. The documentation of a landscape could be executed in a multitude of different ways, however, few capture the attention and imagination of the viewer like aerial imagery. Aerial imagery provides us an opportunity to see our own world in impossible ways, it allows us to take flight and look down upon our landscapes, cities, and ultimately ourselves instilling within us a sense of humbleness and modesty towards the fragility of our planet.

The goal of this project is to document the current state of the landscape in the Great Plains region of the US. The method of the project is a continuous drone film, covering nearly 1000 miles.  Our aim is to document and expose the scale and traces of climate change induced droughts, methodologies being used to mitigate the increasing water shortage, and to predict the trans-formative future that is in store for the landscape. While we are not specifically calling for any conservation efforts with this project we wholeheartedly believe that there is a dire need for a fresh and new way to document and study the landscapes we are transforming.