Professor Daekwan Park (TA: Rajat Gandhi)
Group Work with Ayrton Laucks and Alexander Musau
Fall 2022
Group Work with Ayrton Laucks and Alexander Musau
Fall 2022
Nestled under the Thurston Avenue Bridge in close proximity to Cornell University’s Milstein Hall, this section of Fall Creek Gorge provides an opportunity to experiment with micro-housing on an extreme cliff face as the site. The site’s warm humid summers starkly contrast its cold, lake-effect snow-filled winters, creating the need for a resilient insulation strategy. With a cliff face as the site, sun angles and orientation is pivotal, since, for example, the sun would never directly shine on the south face of the gorge. The gorge creates a wind tunnel, at times funneling winter winds, so the use of windmills would harness energy and also decrease the speed of the wind. The gorge is composed of siltstone rock, which is both hard and durable, which would allow it to support embedded structures. Siltstone has also been used as a building material and has been quarried, so it is soft enough to carve.
