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TAUBMAN COLLEGE
ARCHITECTURE +
URBAN PLANNING


2023 STUDENT SHOW





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[INSTITUTIONS] ARCH 552



Gina Reichert


“Frenemies: Building Relationships”




This studio section focused on relationships and how we, as designers, can proactively develop the relational nature of what we design and build.

Students were asked to consider questions about:

    How we can design for host, guest, staff & labor;

   What we let in, what we keep out; Engaging the ground;

    How we acknowledge culture and climate of place;

    Changes over time, looking backward & forward;

    Culturally significant programmatic components;

    Defense strategies.

Students worked through design research in pairs, assigned US embassy buildings and compounds in nations we have less than friendly diplomatic relations with (or have in the past) as well as those Nations’ embassies here in the United States. Past & present contexts between these pairings framed the precedent studies, including how the land they sit upon, diplomatic relations, and the buildings themselves have developed and changed over time. Each student then worked to develop their own proposal for a version of these diplomatic properties that reconsiders how we treat one another. The countries under consideration included: Iraq, Afghanistan, China, Russia, Venezuela.



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