Garden Party // 2026 // With Alper Turan
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Garden Party is an inhabitable structure that weaves together architecture, gardening, and community engagement through a series of temporary outdoor pavilions. The project forms a flexible setting for performance, gathering, and education, acting as both an artistic and functional extension of the house by hosting concerts, readings, educational programs, and informal assemblies while staying closely rooted in its site and history. The proposal is organized around five distinct pavilion types, each developed in relation to specific planting and gardening needs for crops like corn, tomatoes, squash, flowers, and beans. At its core, Garden Party explores an architecture that is intentionally open-ended and vague in character, lending authorship of the design to the needs of the plants. The design invites interpretation, encourages upcycling, and allows for multiple forms of reuse. Rather than becoming obsolete after its initial performative role, the project has the capacity to take on new functions within the landscape as raised gardens, while always having the possibility of performance. With gardening and landscape playing a central role in the programmatic thinking, the project formally engages with the garden theater typology and with Howard Van Doren Shaw’s original ring, as well as its precedent in Villa Gori. In terms of layout, the proposal draws from these historical references that shaped the use of the site more than a century ago, while introducing a contemporary variation that remains closely tied to the original ideas and intentions behind the formation of these lands.
From renders to actual objects!
Students translated their ideas into 3D prints, testing how tese architectural forms hold up in an unexpected scale
@tulanearchlabs
Objects by
Riley Wemhoener / Tomba Brion
Abigail Sakawat / Gehry Residence
Georgia Clark / Ronchamp
Simon Favret / Gingerbread trims
Jack Boyer / Valley
Jordan Kenney / Yokohama Terminal
Clara Quandt / TAMA Art University Library
Fluid Objects —— exploring the architectural object through abstraction: taking a piece of architecture or building element and turning it into a form that works through composition and sculptural intent.
Objects by
1. Abigail Sakawat / Gehry Residence
2. Jack Boyer / Valley
3. Riley Wemhoener / Tomba Brion
4. Jordan Kenney / Yokohama Terminal
5. Simon Favret / Gingerbread trims
6. Clara Quandt / TAMA Art University Library
7. Georgia Clark / Ronchamp
Talking about verticality in domestic space in studio this week through Loos.
Villa Scheu reads differently from many of his other raumplan houses. Instead of circulation generating a continuous spatial path, the house is organized by three primary floor plates connected by two stairs. Still, raumplan emerges through the stacking of cubic spaces that shape the terraced form of the building. An asymmetrical nine square plan organizes the ground floor and then shifts to six and four as the house rises.
Domesticity across scales: ways of living
Student work from last year’s second-year undergraduate core studio at @tulanearch , coordinated by @andreabardondetena - students explored domesticity across multiple scales: from minimal horizontal forms to collective urban housing.
Drawings by Gabriela Cobian, Andrea Santos, Lauren Dulin, Azusa James
“Building, Landscape and Environment”
Student models from last semester’s second-year undergraduate core studio at @tulanearch , coordinated by @radadam
Models by Sophia Riojas, Olivia Robinson, Ethan Guarachi, and Larysha Trinidad.
Alper Turan @post__form Tulane Üniversitesi Sanat Galerisi’nde sergilediği Yapay Şehir (The Artificial City) projesini anlatıyor.
Proje, yapay zeka ile üretilen görselleri hızlı sonuçlar almak için değil, mimari form üzerine düşünmek ve farklı mekanlar yaratmak için bir araç olarak ele alıyor. Midjourney ile üretilen her çıktı, bitmiş bir tasarım değil; yeniden çizilen, modellenen ve yorumlanan bir başlangıç noktası olarak alınıyor. Proje, planlama mantığı olmayan, biçimsel çeşitliliğin yön verdiği hayali bir şehir kurguluyor. Amaçlanan sonuçlardan biri ise yapay zekayı tasarım sürecinde yaratıcı bir ortak olarak düşünmek.
#midjourney #sanat #mimar #mimarlik #sergi
graphics for Cultivation Beyond Extraction: a critical and reflective edited volume by Liz Camuti @lzcamuti and Leah Kahler @loam__chomsky
the image draws from the questions the editors are asking, centering on the idea of plants being put to work, with a systematically planted grid of trees casting shadows on the earth as a subtle record of control, extraction, and labor.
Celebrating another great term: join us this Monday for the final review of the 2nd-year Core Architecture Studio: Building, Landscape, and Environment.
Thanks to the teaching team Adam Marcus @radadam , Assia Crawford @wild.futures_lab , Shawna Meyer @smeyerurbanbliss , Cynthia Dubberley, Alyson Demskie @_demskie , Leonardo Leiva Rivera @leoleivar , and Eric Hoffman @hoffmanea - and to our students for a wonderful semester.
