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Urban Carbon Sinks: Housing the New Texas Triangle
As Texas faces accelerating urbanization, housing must respond not only to population growth but also to planetary limits. This...
Pre:Post Disaster Typologies. Bridging Human & Artificial Intelligence to Co-create Future-fit Urban Spaces.
This design studio explores how architecture can support the formation of resilient and sustainable coastal cities in an age of...
Alpine Typologies as Spatial Systems
This seminar explores Alpine typologies as spatial systems, examining their evolution across valleys, settlements, buildings, and...
Co-Creating The Alpine Superblock
Architecture plays a crucial role in shaping resilient urban ecosystems, requiring innovative strategies to address contemporary...
Post-Oil Environments. Developing a Typological Approach to Climate Adaptation of Architecture and the City
We live in a Post-Oil Environment. Anthropogenic carbon emissions created this environment, puncturing the earth’s surface to extract,...
Co-creating the Alpine Superblock: Traveling Exhibition
The 2025 Alpinestudio Traveling Exhibition celebrates the culmination of a semester-long transatlantic collaboration between students and...
Prompt-a-thon Workshop: AI-driven Visions for the Future City in the Alps
This seminar explores future city concepts through five modules—Sustainable, Resilient, Inclusive, Smart, and Multi-Scalar...
Visualizing Climate Change in the City
This project visualizes the interconnected systems of climate change, mapping vulnerability drivers, associated hazards, and their...
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Resilient Urban In[ter]ventions
In times of planetary crises, architecture needs to be approached as a component of the urban ecosystem. The intricate relationship...
Adaptive Typologies
Adaptive Typologies focuses on climate resilience of the built environment on the architectural object scale. In Adaptive Typologies,...
Types and Actions
Design Communications 3 focuses on digital methods to generate and represent design, spatial concepts, urban conditions, and...
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Resilient [urban] In[ter]ventions: Traveling Exhibition
This exhibition presents student work developed through Alpinestudio, a cross-listed collaboration between the University of Innsbruck...
The Transscalar City: Housing the New Texas Triangle
The Transscalar City is a collaborative project to rethink settlement patterns and advocate for climate action. It integrates the...
Gulf Forum- A Climate fit Concept for Floating Arena
The Gulf Forum is an innovative project aimed at creating a large, multi-purpose structure that can host various events on the water....
Publications
The following peer-reviewed and editorially reviewed publications reflect an ongoing commitment to interdisciplinary, community-engaged,...
Smart & Connected Cities
The Smart and Connected Cities project envisions a new relationship between communities, environmental systems, and digital technologies....
Urban Hybrids: Alps vs. Coast
BACKGROUND The Climate Crisis is a global challenge, (re)shaping the natural, cultural, and built environment. While it is a complex...
Trends, Traditions, Technology.
As AI reshapes architectural thinking, what traditions will be challenged or retrospectively revealed as mere trends? Architecture is...
Corpus Christi. A Productive Downtown for a Productive City
This proposal is shaped by community input gathered through workshops with residents of Corpus Christi and stakeholder meetings conducted...
Participatory Intelligence
Architecture and urbanism have moved beyond the design of objects to engage with systems, processes, and lived condition. As climate...
Cooper Street Competition: Third Place
The “UTA Connecting Corridor” is a four-acre site running through the heart of the campus with thousands of automobiles traversing daily...
Water, People & the City
Water scarcity has traditionally been a severe challenge for urban areas located in dry regions and is becoming a worldwide concern even...
Coastal Farm: A Sustainable Farming Hub for the Next Generation of Texas Cities
In response to the surging demand for clean and sustainable food in Texas, our architectural initiative spearheads a groundbreaking...
Metropolis Nexus: Housing the New Texas Triangle
The demand for data centers has surged in recent years, driven by the exponential growth in digital data and the increasing reliance on...
- Fri, Sep 18Sep 18, 2026, 9:00 AM – 2:00 PMPortland, 2000 Billy G Webb Dr, Portland, TX 78374, USAJoin us on September 18, 2026, for the 2026 Smart Coast Summit: Coastal Bend Vision 2050, hosted by the University of Texas at Arlington’s Smart Coast Initiative. This engaging event brings together visionaries, experts, and community leaders to address the Texas Coast’s most pressing environmental
- Fri, Sep 19Sep 19, 2025, 9:30 AM – 6:30 PM CDTCorpus Christi, 1901 N Shoreline Blvd, Corpus Christi, TX 78401, USAJoin us on September 19, 2025 for the 2025 Smart Coast Summit – Coastal Bend Vision 2050, hosted by the University of Texas at Arlington’s Smart Coast Initiative. This transformative event brings together visionaries, experts, and stakeholders to address the Coastal Bend’s biggest challenges.
- Fri, Nov 08Nov 08, 2024, 2:30 PM – 6:30 PMIngleside on the Bay, Ingleside on the Bay, TX 78362, USAThe "Smart Coast: Community Forum Ingleside on the Bay" gathers residents, leaders, and experts to discuss adaptive strategies for coastal resilience and sustainable planning, fostering community-driven solutions.
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