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In evaluating the current body of work produced by CABE, the editorial team of SPACEWORK came to appreciate the amazing accomplishments of individual students and faculty, as well as the collective efforts of several studios and institutions. It felt only right to acknowledge these endeavors through a select gallery, and permit each the digital space to more fully explore their mission, narrative, and impact. We praise the students who are defining a new standard of practice, challenging the limits of what's feasible, and enacting tangible change here and now. Please take the time to explore the impressive stories herein and give credit to the remarkable designers, researchers, and innovators who are pushing CABE to new heights.
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Solar Decathlon - Kelly School
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The Education Building submission for the 2022 Solar Decathlon
The adaptive reuse of William D. Kelley will uplift the school into a super effective, playful, and transparent educational environment that can serve as a hub for the community. This design will be achieved through an integrative approach. In order to create a self-sustaining building which can not only support the needs of the students but of the community as well, the design will be net-positive across multiple technical sub-systems. The design will not only incorporate these systems, but celebrate them in a way that educates the students on their importance. |
Reclaiming our Bodies
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The Interior Design Capstone of Abby Stubb
In a country perceived to be the world’s greatest democracy, women’s sexual and reproductive rights are under attack. Women do not have control over their own body. The woman is often cast in the role of the body as an object of discourse, desire, and fascination. The body becomes something outside of herself. How can feminist design intervene in a patriarchal society? This provocative and immersive mobile installation explores the interior spaces of the female body that are centers of decision making, invasion, exploitation, and control while creating a platform to share the experience, knowledge, and potential of being a woman. |
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Solar Decathlon - NPPP
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The Build Challenge submission to the 2023 Solar Decathlon
North Philadelphia Peace Park (NPPP) is a community garden that exists in what the community refers to as Peacetown, otherwise known as Sharswood, Philadelphia. The community is strengthened through the culture that is created through NPPP, specifically black culture and using that to create resiliency for residents of all backgrounds. Our intention is to provide a design that allows them to expand that number and provide even more to the community or even sell excess produce for profit. NPPP has been healing, hosting, envisioning, integrating, and redistributing in Peacetown since it started in 2012, the goal of our project is to design and build infrastructure to support them in amplifying their power to heal. |
Emergence of a Modern Dwelling
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The documentation and celebration of the Hassrick House
Since 2015, the students of Thomas Jefferson University have researched and documented the Hassrick House, one of a few mid-century modern dwellings designed by Richard Neutra in the Philadelphia area. Series of student cohorts have performed extensive work analysing the site and historical records, archiving and exhibiting their findings, and serving as docents of the site. These efforts culminated in the founding of the Center for the Preservation of Modernism and were recently showcased in the publication of Emergence of a Modern Dwelling. |
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Synesthesia
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The traveling exhibit by the Synesthetic Research & Design Lab
Synesthesia is an atmospheric, soft interface with an infrastructural core that allows no physical bodies inside but rather consumes them virtually. It is a manifestation of bodily data relationships abstracted and projected back to an analog domain. It promotes a multiplicitous idea of what it means to be human, to have agency, and creates a collective space that shifts the narrative of an agreed syntax of form to a spatial construct of a performance of bodies. |
