Mitchell Joachim: Archinode Studio

Dr. J. + Evil Twin Booking Agency

2008-05-08T18:17:00.006-04:00

Dr. Mitchell Joachim is represented by Scott Beibin of Evil Twin Booking Agency for future events/actions/lectures/film/TV appearances.
Evil Twin Booking Agency helps you bring politically charged and culturally challenging media to college campuses, theaters, infoshops, community centers, squats, microcinemas, dance clubs, caves and other venues throughout North America, Europe and South America. We manage tours and appearances for today's most prominent politically conscious speakers, authors, films and performers including: Dead Prez, Lost Film Fest, The Yes Men, Who Killed the Electric Car, Why We Fight, FOUND magazine, Bernardine Dohrn, Scream Club, The Corporation, Timothy Speed Levitch, Boots Riley, and more.
http://www.eviltwinbooking.org/index.cfm

Columbia GSAPP Visual Studies EVENT

2008-05-06T14:33:00.008-04:00

VS CAD Show Wed. May 14th @ 7pm
We will be showing work from:
Tilling Education: An Eco Aesthetic Approach, 2008.
Dr. Mitchell Joachim,
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Columbia University, GSAPP
TA: Michael Contento
Coordinator: Josh Uhl

Synergy Conference: The Evergreen State College

2008-05-06T14:22:00.005-04:00

The Synergy Conference is a local event with a global message. The mission is simple; the integrations of diverse aspects of life into a sustainable model for our societies future. The event was introduced because the founding groups and individuals believed in combining issues of culture, design, ecology, agriculture and social justice and critically analyze their interconnectedness. The goal of the events is to create a collective vision and model of sustainability.

Dr. Mitchell Joachim

5/21/08 @ 6:00 P.M. Lecture Hall 1

The Evergreen State College

Olympia, WA.

http://www.evergreen.edu/events/synergy/

Art Daily: 01SJ Global Festival

2008-05-06T13:30:00.003-04:00

ZER01 Invites the World To Experience Art on the Edge at 2nd Biennial 01SJ Global Festival
Jane Marsching and Mitchell Joachim (Terrefrom)
http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=23832

New Book - eVolo: Skyscraper for the XXI Century

2008-05-05T21:31:00.008-04:00

eVolo: Skyscraper for the XXI Century
by Carlo Aiello,
"PeristalCity," eVolo Publishing, pp.14-15, 2008.
http://www.evolo-arch.com/evolo.swf

New article for Bauwelt

2008-04-23T18:23:00.004-04:00

"Profusion of Invention: eVolo Skyscraper Competitions"
Mitchell Joachim, Ph.D. and Melanie Fessel
Bauwelt, May 9th, 2008.
www.bauwelt.de

Fab Tree Hab in Arquitectura y Diseño

2008-04-23T18:07:00.004-04:00

Marta Gil, "Architecture in a Tree,"
Arquitectura y Diseño, pp. 169-74. No. 88, April 2008.
www.rba.es

Terreform Expands

2008-04-19T17:35:00.006-04:00

Our new second studio location opens in Brooklyn, New York.
We have significantly expanded our staff and work spaces at the Metropolitan Exchange (MEx).
MEx is an architecture, urban planning, and research cooperative located in downtown Brooklyn. The space is made up of design professionals, developers, and scholars who come together to collaborate on architecture and planning projects, pursue development opportunities, and sponsor lectures, film screenings and exhibitions.
TERREFORM
THE METROPOLITAN EXCHANGE
33 FLATBUSH AVENUE 6F
BROOKLYN, NY 11217
www.metropolitanexchange.org

Future North: Noah Clones

2008-04-18T17:29:00.003-04:00

Ecotarium bound biospherians dwell in the ex-Arctic landscape of tomorrow near the poles.

Photos & model by Dan O'Connor

Terreform at BOOST (Building Open Opportunity Structures)

2008-04-17T22:45:00.004-04:00

BOOST to host Mitchell Joachim of Terreform, on sustainable architecture.
June 7th 2008
117 South Warren Street, Trenton, NJ.
Green, Smart, and Sustainable Stakeholder Education and Training 2008-09 (GSS-SET) are the natural outgrowth of our past efforts for community benefits by way of engaging redevelopment and economic growth-producing activities. GSS-SET will contribute to fighting global warming and pollution by stimulating the green building and clean energy economy and positioning local community leaders to help their constituencies capture a good portion of green collar jobs, develop or expand green businesses, and conduct advocacy and policy work to the benefit of populations with barriers to employment.

For more information about Building Open Opportunity Structures Together (BOOST), GSS-SET 2008-09, and the June 7 launch, please call our voice/fax center at (206) 202-2883 or email gss-set@gss-set.com.

Ecotariums at the North Pole

2008-04-11T20:47:00.011-04:00

The Future North Ecotarium project is based on the premise that within the next hundred years our climate will be irreversible altered. Massive migrations of urban populations will move north to escape severe flooding and increased temperatures. Area inside the Artic regions will warm up significantly, making their occupation newly desirable. Real-Estate values will shift to privilege northern climates that formerly had almost no human inhabitants. To underscore the intensity of such a global shift, we have moved entire cities. The reality of hundreds of millions of people relocating their respective centers of culture, business, and life is almost incomprehensible. We anticipate this polemical representation will impact our perception of tomorrow.

The movie installation will premier at:
MASS MoCA Badlands: New Horizons in Landscape
and 01SJ: A global festival of art on the edge
by
Jane D. Marsching and Dr. Mitchell Joachim/ Terreform
curators: Denise Markonish at MASS MoCA and Steve Dietz at SJMA

Taking Back the Streets, Sunday NY Times

2008-04-07T12:16:00.009-04:00

"Taking Back the Streets,"
by Jeff Byles, New York Times,
p. CY11, Sun. April 6, 2008.

Gentle Congestion:
Instead of designing cities for cars, why not design cars for a kinder city?
That’s what researchers at the Media Lab of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have cooked up: smarter, gentler modes of urban transportation. “If you think of your average car, it doesn’t have the same smarts as a horse,” said Mitchell Joachim, a former Media Lab researcher. A horse, he points out, is unlikely to run off the road, naturally avoids head-on collisions, and at least comes when you whistle. With the horse in mind, Dr. Joachim, now executive director of a New York design collaborative called Terreform, has helped conceive of a lightweight electric car that would sense the presence of other vehicles and slow down in potentially dangerous areas.
On-board navigation systems would drive people where they wanted to go. Parking meters, linked to each other and to the vehicles, could signal an open space. These smart cars would even sense that pothole you just ran over, and report it to maintenance crews. Because the vehicles could be made of soy-based plastic shells that could bump into each other without damage, they could move in flocks. Designers call it “gentle congestion.” Quick braking systems protect pedestrians, so there is no need for sidewalks, lanes or signals.

World Science Festival: May 30th - NYC

2008-04-06T18:11:00.010-04:00

Mitchell Joachim
is speaking at the
World Science Festival:
http://www.worldsciencefestival.com/
on the Future Cities Panel:
Majora Carter
Dickson Despommier
Peter Head
Blaine Brownell
Friday, May 30, 8:00 PM - 9:30 PM,
NYU - Kimmel Center for University Life
Future Cities: Sustainable Solutions, Radical Designs — We stand at a crossroads. Cities must change radically to achieve long-term sustainability. Energy, food and water sources, transportation systems and basic infrastructure, must all adapt to emerging pressures from climate change, dwindling resources and growing urban populations.
How will we meet this immense challenge? In a program that is part celebration of human ingenuity and part stark reminder of the problems we face, influential architects, urban planners, scientists and technologists lay out radical blueprints and innovative solutions as they imagine housing, feeding, transporting and sustaining city dwellers of the not too distant future.
other speakers include:
Alan Alda, Cynthia Breazeal, Brian Greene, Peter Galison, Ray Kurzweil, Richard Leaky, Oliver Sacks, David Sinclair, Saul Griffith, and MORE

Ecogram: The Sustainability Question

2008-03-26T16:33:00.014-04:00

NEW GSAPP EVENT
OCT. 19th-25th, 2008
ECOGRAM:
The Sustainability Question
at Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning & Preservation
Dean: Marc Wigley
Faculty: Mitchell Joachim, Ph.D. &
Ioanna Theocharopoulou, Ph.D.

Benjamin Prosky, Director of Special Events
Melissa Cowley Wolf, Associate Director, Alumni Relations
more TBA: www.ecogram.org

X-OLOGY Magazine: Fab Tree Hab

2008-03-26T16:16:00.006-04:00

"Going Green - Tree houses are branching out".
by Jane Gleeson,
X-ology, p.19, Winter 2008.
http://www.xology.com/w08/w08_green.php

Riva Ring 2023

2008-03-16T15:27:00.002-04:00

A design for Riva – like that of any city – must harmonize desire, context, and
constraint. Physically, the site is blessed by its dramatic proximity to the Black
Sea, by rolling hills, by a sinuous river, by green fields and forests, by intimate
beaches, by an existing town of intimate informality, by a protected forest buffer,
and by its easy proximity to Istanbul.
It is, however, challenged by salt winds, demanding topography, by the risk of
becoming a mere commuter dormitory, by existing plans and infrastructures, and
by a pattern of land holdings and regulations that demand what may be a too even
distribution of building across the site. Riva is no tabula rasa and our approach is
shaped by a set of prior decisions we might not have made. For example, were
there an effective way of consolidating and transferring development rights, it
would be possible to create a much more compact city, one less challenged by
low densities and sprawl.

The Masdar Competition

2008-03-15T17:30:00.005-04:00

The MASDAR Biome is

both a revolutionary and an evolutionary structure intended to embody the best available practices for both sustainability and sociability. Like the new city in which it sits, the MASDAR Biome will be a visual and functional landmark on the pathway to a rational planetary future. We strongly believe that this future must penetrate every aspect of city building, that the ecological perspective has long taught us that natural systems are complex, distributed, and dynamic. We hope that this project, in this remarkable city, will play its role not simply within the perimeter of its own property but as a key actor for the city as a whole and for the new cities its construction so dramatically portends.

As we illustrate in our submission, our proposal will embody and expand upon virtually all of the suggested technologies laid out in the project brief. Understanding that sustainability must be achieved on both supply and demand sides of the equation, we have worked closely with our engineers not simply to assure the lowest energy (actual and embodied), water, waste, emissions and air quality, toxicity, and life-cycle cost, via consumption or production. And, we have sought to achieve this with a maximum emphasis on the most passive available systems. Throughout, we have utilized these technologies not simply as the means to technical solutions to environmental projects but as a way of foregrounding the importance of the people – and the needs of their human bodies – who will occupy this space.

Home Concepts magazine: Fab Tree Hab

2008-03-14T13:30:00.003-04:00

"Eco Light Home...Naturally"
by Huang Nickmatul
Home Concepts, pp. 28-32, March 2008.
http://www.lexicon.com.sg/singapore/print/hc_pg.asp

Zurich to Ronchamp

2008-03-14T10:02:00.007-04:00

All glad to be back home.

Terreform at MASS MoCA

2008-03-13T11:46:00.001-04:00

Badlands: New Horizons in Landscape
Opens May 24, 2008
Jane D. Marsching and Terreform
http://www.massmoca.org/event_details.php?id=369

Telegraph UK highlights the Fab Tree Hab

2008-03-08T12:06:00.005-05:00

Ideal Home Show: Why tomorrow never came
Chris Stevens, Telegraph.co.uk, March 8, 2008.
"Days of future passed: Predictions that stil have potential
Grow your own buildings MIT architect Mitchell Joachim has been working on a building called the Fab Tree Hab, which is constructed out of living trees. These trees are physically bound together to form a solid structure. The next step would be to genetically engineer a tree to grow in the shape of a house.
The tree would form walls and floors as it matured, and grow a new extension every year."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/main.jhtml?xml=/property/2008/03/08/ptomorrow108.xml

Arboreal Architecture Prototype

2008-02-24T15:41:00.013-05:00

Fab Tree Hab: accurately controlled living plant geometry to form dwellings.

Just as the modern biotechnology revolution owes its existence to the intelligence in ecosystems at the molecular level, sustainable technologies for homes can also benefit from biological, natural systems; however, starting at the molecular scale is not necessary. Rather, as the intention of this design explores, lumber maintained in its macro, living form becomes a superstructure. Templates, cut from 3D computer files control the plant growth in the early stages. After a time the templates are removed and reused in a new home.
- New 3D model fabrication with Edward Ward.

A True Homegrown Investment: Fab Tree Hab

2008-02-20T10:52:00.003-05:00

"A True Homegrown Investment"
by: Marie Langhout, NuWire Investor, Feb. 19, 2008.
Can’t afford to build a house? Grow one.
http://www.nuwireinvestor.com/blogs/thebrinktank/2008/02/true-homegrown-investment.html

High Gloss/ Social Conscience at SCOPE

2008-02-09T18:43:00.000-05:00

Louise Blouin Media (publishers of Art+Auction, Modern Painters, Culture+Travel) is presenting a discussion panel at the SCOPE Art Fair on Saturday 29th March between 5pm – 6pm.

High Gloss/ Social Conscience
participants:
Craig Kellogg, editor at Interior Design
James Zemaitis, Vice President of the Design Dept. Sotheby’s
Rick Cook, Cook + Fox Architects
Morgan Falconer, writer
Dr. Mitchell Joachim, Partner at Terreform

Susan Morris, editor in chief of Modern Painters, moderator.
at The SCOPE Pavilion, Lincoln Center.
http://www.scope-art.com/home.php?section=home

Synergy Conference

2008-02-06T23:18:00.000-05:00

Synergy: The 7th Annual Sustainable Living Conference
The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington
May 23rd-24th, 2008.
Dr. Mitchell Joachim of Terreform: Ecotransology - Collapse of Nature
www.evergreen.edu/synergy