20 MAY 2010 - Proposal for multiple museums in Chongqing, China uploaded (with video).
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"Architecture that operates at the urban scale generally attempts to dissolve.  The project seeks to find a particular language for the museum that is able to conform to a nearly infinite range of site dimensions and topographic conditions, linking high and low ground.  The building is parametrically generated in CATIA by a 'best fit' algorithm, placing program throughout the structure based on its proximity to defined program attractors, distributing and re-distributing in the available space.  Alternating voids, projected normal to the ground, are cut through the building to force linear circulation through the galleries.  Two sites were chosen with drastically different site areas and proportions, producing a tower and pseudo-mat typology that are formally geologic in their stratification and registration of Chongqing's highly varied topography."
 

 

23 FEB 2010 - Moynihan Station receives stimulus funds to begin phase one development of the Farley Post Office Building.  NY Times

 

30 JAN 2010 - African Bamboo Growth Economy, a project for Le Kinkeliba Foundation, presented by architect Toshiko Mori at the World Economic Forum's IdeasLab on community healthcare.
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"Due to high seasonal climate variation and its influence on regional worker patterns, the project aims to stem rural-urban migration and the exodus of Senegalese youth to Europe through the teaching of dry-season agro-forestry techniques and economies.  The growth of bamboo clumps within the colony, as well as the landscape of production and harvesting is adapted to passively provide shade and wind-break to buildings and people.  Basic necessities of water, shade and shelter organize the colony into clusters not dissimilar from the traditional African village, while redefining its aesthetic character based on the means of felling, curing and drying of this native African species of bamboo."
 

 

15 NOV 2009 - Entry for Reinventing Grand Army Plaza (Honorable Mention) published by the Design Trust for Public Space.  Visit the Design Trust's Publications to order or to download a free copy.

 

 

04 NOV 2009 - UFA's work referenced in Design Ecologies: Sustainable Potentials in Architecture by Lisa Tilder and Beth Blostein, and also in On the Water: Palisade Bay by Guy Nordenson, Catherine Seavitt and Adam Yarinsky.

 

12 MAY 2009 - Proposal for Atlantic Yards uploaded.
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"The project registers a new visible public infrastructure to foster the distributions, collections and expansion necessary to sustainably re-diversify the City's land uses.  The hyperdense structure creates a highly-differentiated cross-grain, traversed by multiple, focused public grounds that look to reorganize the collision between mega(infra)structural planning and a society of private ownership."
 

25 DEC 2008 - UFA's work included in 1000x Landscape Architecture published by Verlagshaus-Braun.

 

17 JUL 2008 - Entry "Prospect on Structure" for the Design Trust's Reinventing Grand Army Plaza competition will be one of thirty exhibited in an outdoor installation within Brooklyn's historic plaza from 12 Sept 2008 through 13 Oct 2008.

"The call to reinvent the face of Prospect Park's 526 acres of forest, water and wetlands is to signal a new public attitude with the extension of the park's ecological systems and interface with the City, creating a multifaceted network of open space, transit and cultural exchange."
 
Exhibition Photos 13 Sep 08

 

25 DEC 2007 - Article written on Gateway published in Landscape Archictecture Journal China.
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04 JUN 2007 - "Mapping the Ecotone" selected FIRST PRIZE entry in international design competition Envisioning Gateway for the revitalization of a 26 000 acre national park along NYC's waterfront.

 
Ashley Scott Kelly, along with former Univ Michigan studio-mate Rikako Wakabayashi, recently won first prize in an international design competition for a vision to revitalize a 26,000 acre national park along New York City's waterfront.  The Gateway National Recreation Area, encompassing Jamaica Bay and parts of the greater NY Harbor, is in a state of disrepair, plagued by vanishing wetlands and ranks lowest of all national parks on the NPCA's natural resource scale.
 
The design creates an iconic vision for New York City that interfaces instead of opposes the natural processes of this estuarine ecosystem, and which suggests shaping a new public attitude about our urban parks.
 
The competition is supported by the National Parks Conservation Association, Columbia University and the Van Alen Institute.  A presentation to the National Park Service is slated for early 2008.  The six finalists have been posted to the NPCA's website and are open for public opinion and voting.
 
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29 MAY 2007 - "Diffuse Density" Detroit Brownfield Reclamation Center recently published in UMichigan's Dimensions20 2007.