The new S.L.U.M. Lab magazine presents a cross-section of contemporary practice in the Asian region, with examples of specific modes of acting in multiple local contexts. The title ASIAN MODE refers to the modus operandi, moods, modes and modalities of researchers in different urban conditions, who are deliberately moving their focus away from the generic, tabula-rasa view of development that dominated publications about Asia in the past decade. Rural and urban, mobility and migration, density and sprawl, openness and exclusion, prosperity and disparity, water and waste, all reappear in different perspectives within this magazine. The idea of this edition is to move away from cliché views on Asia, producing an image of diversity and specificity of Asian everyday life.
Sep 21
The new S.L.U.M. Lab magazine presents a cross-section of contemporary practice in the Asian region, with examples of specific modes of acting in multiple local contexts. The title ASIAN MODE refers to the modus operandi, moods, modes and modalities of researchers in different urban conditions, who are deliberately moving their focus away from the generic, tabula-rasa view of development that dominated publications about Asia in the past decade. Rural and urban, mobility and migration, density and sprawl, openness and exclusion, prosperity and disparity, water and waste, all reappear in different perspectives within this magazine. The idea of this edition is to move away from cliché views on Asia, producing an image of diversity and specificity of Asian everyday life.
Sep 06
Sep 06

Breaking Borders: Latin Pratt Exhibition

We’re excited to announce the upcoming launch of the new SLUM Lab magazine, Last Round Ecology. There will be a launch party on Friday, Sept. 16th at 7pm at Van Alen Books in NYC as part of Urban Design Week 2011. You can learn more about the free event and register for it by clicking on the photo above. We hope to see you there!
Aug 31
We’re excited to announce the upcoming launch of the new SLUM Lab magazine, Last Round Ecology. There will be a launch party on Friday, Sept. 16th at 7pm at Van Alen Books in NYC as part of Urban Design Week 2011. You can learn more about the free event and register for it by clicking on the photo above. We hope to see you there!

Pirajussara Network

This project stemmed from health care research, looking at systems of care, health insurance, healthcare policy, and health problems related to the open waste line that is the Pirajussara river.
The favela network of Pirajussara, along the border of Embu and Sao Paulo, has 4 typical conditions:

1) backyard: the river is embedded within the favela backyard, inaccessible to the public

2) road access: the river is alongside the road

3) cross-city access: one enters the home in Embu from Sao Paulo

4) access to park: river is next to green area with potential for leisure space

Along this 2.5 km strip of river network, there are 10 areas for intervention that fall under these 4 conditions.

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Comment:

This project attempts to systematize healthcare – could there be a social model to provide health insurance and possibly an HSA for citizen groups? Individual health insurance could also be an interesting model. How could this inform a responsive architecture?

-Zachary Aders
Nov 22
Pirajussara Network This project stemmed from health care research, looking at systems of care, health insurance, healthcare policy, and health problems related to the open waste line that is the Pirajussara river. The favela network of Pirajussara, along the border of Embu and Sao Paulo, has 4 typical conditions: 1) backyard: the river is embedded within the favela backyard, inaccessible to the public 2) road access: the river is alongside the road 3) cross-city access: one enters the home in Embu from Sao Paulo 4) access to park: river is next to green area with potential for leisure space Along this 2.5 km strip of river network, there are 10 areas for intervention that fall under these 4 conditions. _____________________________________________________________________ Comment: This project attempts to systematize healthcare – could there be a social model to provide health insurance and possibly an HSA for citizen groups? Individual health insurance could also be an interesting model. How could this inform a responsive architecture? -Zachary Aders

On Monday, November 9th, the SLUM Lab studio hosted Brazilian architect Ruy Othake for an afternoon workshop of presentations and critiques.
Nov 10
Nov 10

Ruy Othake Workshop

Eucalyptos.
Nov 07
Eucalyptos.

Corrego do Mina – Favela along a creek with flooding risk. Images:

The “formal” city has numerous public facilities and parks. Corrego do Mina could use access to more of these.

Strategy for developing housing along the hillside.

The open hillside developed with new housing.

Drawing connections between housing and the surrounding favela fabric.
Nov 06
Nov 06

Corrego do Mina


Boulevard da Paz is a site with extreme changes in topography, located on the outskirts of southern Sao Paulo city. The area lacks nearby employment opportunities and has problems with physical access along steep slopes. Water control is also an important issue as stormwater creates the risk of landslides.

I hope to use Boulevard da Paz’s topography to its advantage – creating an economically and environmentally productive space for the favela residents. I am proposing the introduction of agricultural terracing along steep valleys that are currently unusable – growing high value crops to generate income and create jobs, reinforcing the slopes to prevent landslides and using gravity to treat agricultural and urban wastewater runoff.
Nov 06
Nov 06

Boulevard La Paz

Recycle Bank.
Nov 06
Recycle Bank.

Efforts from the government has been made to develop housing programs to provide improved living conditions and right to hous

ing for the families here in São Francisco for decades. However, the process of replacing people into the new vertical dwellings creates problems like gentrification and residents unable to pay for the development and therefore, stay, in their new homes.  Also, the lives of residents could hardly be improved by solely providing living spaces; the lack of commercial and public spaces still renders the area a bleak urban landscape.  Moreover, the construction of new highway, Jacu-Pessego, right through São Francisco will bring tremendous impact to the existing communities.
Nov 06
Nov 06

A Paradox of Urbanization

Slum Lab

Posted on Friday September 21st 2012 at 05:35am.

The new S.L.U.M. Lab magazine presents a cross-section of contemporary practice in the Asian region, with examples of specific modes of acting in multiple local contexts. The title ASIAN MODE refers to the modus operandi, moods, modes and modalities of researchers in different urban conditions, who are deliberately moving their focus away from the generic, tabula-rasa view of development that dominated publications about Asia in the past decade. Rural and urban, mobility and migration, density and sprawl, openness and exclusion, prosperity and disparity, water and waste, all reappear in different perspectives within this magazine. The idea of this edition is to move away from cliché views on Asia, producing an image of diversity and specificity of Asian everyday life.
The new S.L.U.M. Lab magazine presents a cross-section of contemporary practice in the Asian region, with examples of specific modes of acting in multiple local contexts. The title ASIAN MODE refers to the modus operandi, moods, modes and modalities of researchers in different urban conditions, who are deliberately moving their focus away from the generic, tabula-rasa view of development that dominated publications about Asia in the past decade. Rural and urban, mobility and migration, density and sprawl, openness and exclusion, prosperity and disparity, water and waste, all reappear in different perspectives within this magazine. The idea of this edition is to move away from cliché views on Asia, producing an image of diversity and specificity of Asian everyday life.

The new S.L.U.M. Lab magazine presents a cross-section of contemporary practice in the Asian region, with examples of specific modes of acting in multiple local contexts. The title ASIAN MODE refers to the modus operandi, moods, modes and modalities of researchers in different urban conditions, who are deliberately moving their focus away from the generic, tabula-rasa view of development that dominated publications about Asia in the past decade. Rural and urban, mobility and migration, density and sprawl, openness and exclusion, prosperity and disparity, water and waste, all reappear in different perspectives within this magazine. The idea of this edition is to move away from cliché views on Asia, producing an image of diversity and specificity of Asian everyday life.

Slum Lab

Posted on Tuesday September 6th 2011 at 05:44am.

Breaking Borders: Latin Pratt Exhibition

Latin Pratt is putting on a large and impressive exhibition titled, “Breaking Borders”, in the Robert and Hazel Siegel Gallery in New York. U-TT’s work will be featured along with over a dozen other firms’ projects. Definitely stop by between Sept. 8th and November 30th. More details on the Breaking Borders website.

Slum Lab

Posted on Wednesday August 31st 2011 at 04:59am.

We’re excited to announce the upcoming launch of the new SLUM Lab magazine, Last Round Ecology. There will be a launch party on Friday, Sept. 16th at 7pm at Van Alen Books in NYC as part of Urban Design Week 2011. You can learn more about the free event and register for it by clicking on the photo above. We hope to see you there!

We’re excited to announce the upcoming launch of the new SLUM Lab magazine, Last Round Ecology. There will be a launch party on Friday, Sept. 16th at 7pm at Van Alen Books in NYC as part of Urban Design Week 2011. You can learn more about the free event and register for it by clicking on the photo above. We hope to see you there!

Slum Lab

Posted on Sunday November 22nd 2009 at 05:36pm. Its tags are listed below.

Pirajussara Network This project stemmed from health care research, looking at systems of care, health insurance, healthcare policy, and health problems related to the open waste line that is the Pirajussara river. The favela network of Pirajussara, along the border of Embu and Sao Paulo, has 4 typical conditions: 1) backyard: the river is embedded within the favela backyard, inaccessible to the public 2) road access: the river is alongside the road 3) cross-city access: one enters the home in Embu from Sao Paulo 4) access to park: river is next to green area with potential for leisure space Along this 2.5 km strip of river network, there are 10 areas for intervention that fall under these 4 conditions. _____________________________________________________________________ Comment: This project attempts to systematize healthcare – could there be a social model to provide health insurance and possibly an HSA for citizen groups? Individual health insurance could also be an interesting model. How could this inform a responsive architecture? -Zachary Aders
Pirajussara Network This project stemmed from health care research, looking at systems of care, health insurance, healthcare policy, and health problems related to the open waste line that is the Pirajussara river. The favela network of Pirajussara, along the border of Embu and Sao Paulo, has 4 typical conditions: 1) backyard: the river is embedded within the favela backyard, inaccessible to the public 2) road access: the river is alongside the road 3) cross-city access: one enters the home in Embu from Sao Paulo 4) access to park: river is next to green area with potential for leisure space Along this 2.5 km strip of river network, there are 10 areas for intervention that fall under these 4 conditions. _____________________________________________________________________ Comment: This project attempts to systematize healthcare – could there be a social model to provide health insurance and possibly an HSA for citizen groups? Individual health insurance could also be an interesting model. How could this inform a responsive architecture? -Zachary Aders

Pirajussara Network

This project stemmed from health care research, looking at systems of care, health insurance, healthcare policy, and health problems related to the open waste line that is the Pirajussara river.
The favela network of Pirajussara, along the border of Embu and Sao Paulo, has 4 typical conditions:

1) backyard: the river is embedded within the favela backyard, inaccessible to the public

2) road access: the river is alongside the road

3) cross-city access: one enters the home in Embu from Sao Paulo

4) access to park: river is next to green area with potential for leisure space

Along this 2.5 km strip of river network, there are 10 areas for intervention that fall under these 4 conditions.

_____________________________________________________________________

Comment:

This project attempts to systematize healthcare – could there be a social model to provide health insurance and possibly an HSA for citizen groups? Individual health insurance could also be an interesting model. How could this inform a responsive architecture?

-Zachary Aders

Ruy Othake Workshop

Posted on Tuesday November 10th 2009 at 12:13pm. Its tags are listed below.

Ruy Othake Workshop

On Monday, November 9th, the SLUM Lab studio hosted Brazilian architect Ruy Othake for an afternoon workshop of presentations and critiques.

Slum Lab

Posted on Saturday November 7th 2009 at 07:13pm. Its tags are listed below.

Eucalyptos.

Eucalyptos.

Corrego do Mina

Posted on Friday November 6th 2009 at 06:01pm. Its tags are listed below.

Corrego do Mina

Corrego do Mina – Favela along a creek with flooding risk. Images:

The “formal” city has numerous public facilities and parks. Corrego do Mina could use access to more of these.

Strategy for developing housing along the hillside.

The open hillside developed with new housing.

Drawing connections between housing and the surrounding favela fabric.

Boulevard La Paz

Posted on Friday November 6th 2009 at 04:23pm. Its tags are listed below.

Boulevard La Paz


Boulevard da Paz is a site with extreme changes in topography, located on the outskirts of southern Sao Paulo city. The area lacks nearby employment opportunities and has problems with physical access along steep slopes. Water control is also an important issue as stormwater creates the risk of landslides.

I hope to use Boulevard da Paz’s topography to its advantage – creating an economically and environmentally productive space for the favela residents. I am proposing the introduction of agricultural terracing along steep valleys that are currently unusable – growing high value crops to generate income and create jobs, reinforcing the slopes to prevent landslides and using gravity to treat agricultural and urban wastewater runoff.

Slum Lab

Posted on Friday November 6th 2009 at 04:18pm. Its tags are listed below.

Recycle Bank.

Recycle Bank.

A Paradox of Urbanization

Posted on Friday November 6th 2009 at 03:54pm. Its tags are listed below.

A Paradox of Urbanization

Efforts from the government has been made to develop housing programs to provide improved living conditions and right to hous

ing for the families here in São Francisco for decades. However, the process of replacing people into the new vertical dwellings creates problems like gentrification and residents unable to pay for the development and therefore, stay, in their new homes.  Also, the lives of residents could hardly be improved by solely providing living spaces; the lack of commercial and public spaces still renders the area a bleak urban landscape.  Moreover, the construction of new highway, Jacu-Pessego, right through São Francisco will bring tremendous impact to the existing communities.

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