Decarbon Air Rights — Anna Nanju Kim Works

DECARBON AIRRIGHTS:
NEW NEW YORK RISING

Climate Change, Material Ecosystems, and Artificial Intelligence / Year 2023 fall /Columbia GSAPP Advanced Studio V / Type - Research Thesis Studio / Location - Chelsea, Manhattan / Instructor - David Benjamin / Collaborative work with Phoebe Lee

The Decarbon Air Rights came into effect in NYC, as a solution to the climate and housing crisis, allowing buildings with new zoning code, DC (residential buildings under 5 stories) to trade decarbonizing materials for air rights. By creating a new policy and investigating the building, carbon, material cycle and related decision-makers, we are looking for a possibility to minimize the carbon emissions by locating the entire material cycle at the city. Carbon-Negative Material: Substitute material to concrete and insulations by using Mycelium as binding agent, mixed with substrates collected from the local site.

Master Plan_Mycelium Block Cluster

Concept Short Film_Using Generative AI

Research Drawing_The History and the Future of Residential Building Typologies, Technologies, and Regulations in Manhattan and their Relations with Climate Change

Diagram_New Regulation Proposal

Master Plan_Mycelium Cycle

Diagram_Block Community Cluster

Diagram_In-Manhattan Material Manufacture Cycle

Perspective_Aerial_Mycelium Block Community Cluster

Diagram_In-Building System

Diagram_Structural Organization

Plan_Transitional Public Floor

Plan_Residential 1st Floor

Plan_Residential 2nd Floor

Plan_Residential 3rd Floor

Plan_Residential 4th Floor

Plan_Residential 5th Floor

Plan_Residential 6th Floor

Perspective_Back

Perspective Section_Key Building

Axon Plan_Key Building

Mycelium Material Study

Physical Mycelium Model_Unit Study

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