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Unorthodox harmony

Project Details

Cornell university department of architecture
b.arch second year, FALL 2024
Arch 2101: DESIGN III Architectural Interfaces
iNSTRUCTOR: Val Warke

This is part 1/3 of a continuous project from architectural interfaces.
What is a found object? What defines conservation? How can architecture sustain community and ecosystem alike? Situated in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, this project explores the intersection of bat conservation, sustainable guano harvesting, and Indigenous narratives—transforming architecture into a medium for education, ecological stewardship, and communal dialogue.

Problem I: Documentation, Analysis and Abstraction

Mezzadro Seat, 1957, Achille & Pier Castiglioni

made in post-war 1957, in which there was an abundance of Agricultural industrial parts. Their approach was to take an industrial item and reassemble it in a new combination suited to mass production. The Mezzadro seat has four parts: the tractor seat, the curred chromium steel stem (also part of the tractor seat), a large butterfly nut from a bicycle, and a kiln-dried beechwood from scavenged old ships.

“don’t bother with a prearranged design, simply base it on the way things are used.”