Design Against Extinction
July 1–31, 2019, 9am
ONE Lab’s study program is a four-week long architecture and urban design studio focused on coding, sustainable design and digital fabrication. ONE Lab is a non-accredited, industry affiliated teaching and research collective based in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. This hands-on, project-based school for ecological design lets students expand their knowledge through individual studio instruction, group tours of advanced manufacturing facilities, office visits and design theory lectures. Architects, Planners, Sculptors, Industrial and Landscape Designers are all welcome to apply.
The ONE Lab summer program will be held in a newly renovated space located at 19 Morris Avenue in Brooklyn. The Morris Avenue building supports a vibrant community of entrepreneurs from a wide-range of disciplines including robotics, rocketry, software engineering, architecture, urban planning and biotechnology. ONE Lab hosts a cutting-edge design curriculum in a unique educational setting which includes a café, seminar rooms and an open atrium for informal gatherings. Students will also have exclusive access to an off-site digital fabrication lab equipped with a high-resolution 3D printing and CNC machining tools.
This year’s studio aims to combat the impending extinction of endangered animal species through pioneering acts of building design. Students will be asked to engage the city and its natural ecology in an effort to support increased biodiversity. The class will seek to improve system resiliency across scales by applying novel technologies that shield local plants and animals from the negative impacts of urban and suburban development. The studio will specifically focus on the use of novel fabrication technologies to produce building forms that help flora and fauna thrive in otherwise inhospitable conditions. In July ONE Lab will focus attention on the Monarch Butterfly, which has seen a precipitous decline in numbers due to the destruction of its Milkweed food supply. For more information download the July course syllabus.
