GIT
Atlanta, USA

Our team consists of 11 senior architecture students with diverse backgrounds, from different areas of the country. We are completing the competition entry as a part of a semester-long design studio for the Georgia Institute of Technology. We are located in the growing metropolis of Atlanta, the southeast United States’ largest city. It has been the fastest growing metropolitan area in the United States since 2000, with a gain of nearly 900,000 residents to 5.1 million. In that context, we are confronted with underperforming suburbs, dying malls, dead "big box" stores and with a high dependency on cars - 95 percent of the city’s workers depend on cars for commuting. But we also see concepts emerging that make the troubled city Atlanta and its suburbs livable and sustainable again.

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This is our Building site.

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Interactive Session 1

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Interactive Session 2

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Interactive Session 3

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The Tower of Babel stands as a metaphor for the dark sites of civilization. It becomes a metaphor for today’s habits and customs of building in excess, extravagancy in design and dominance of the technosphere.A Cradle To Cradle approach represents a new paradigm for design.“With C to C, as in nature, there is no such thing as waste.”We believe that sustainability is not a burden: Upcycling provides us with a strategy to deal with old materials and heirloom design with a strategy for designing things in such way that you want to keep them as long as possible because of beauty and functionality.

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