Thesis: Inviting Disaster
Data-driven speculative design for architectural consideration
Blender / Photoshop / Illustrator / Heightmapping
University of Tennessee - Knoxville
May 2024
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Tornado Risk Map
Tornado Alley is moving… is Architecture asking the right questions and moving in the right direction?
By-county data from FEMA. Red = High risk
Surface View: Risk Map
Karst Geology Map
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Tennessee’s underground caves and cave-prone areas.
Where cities intersect with karst terrain, what used to be potential problems become potential solutions for safeguarding human life and for new paradigms of urban planning.
Surface View: Karst Map
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Proposal: Sinkhole City
Working with earthen subdisciplines, we can gain an understanding of additional options for safeguarding architectures. The underground network of caves, of karsting, and of opportunity are potential design grounds.
Surface view: Sinkhole City