Nallah-hood: Towards a Healthy Mula-Mutha

April 09, 2019 by Noah Shaye in Water, Advocacy

Columbia GSAPP: Spring Studio 2019 Noah Shaye, Ryan Pryandana, Shouta Kanehira

In order for Pune, India to harness the full potential of its watershed it must see the Mula Mutha as one unified system of a river and its nallahs. Nallahs are inherently decentralized low ground and have great potential to hold water. A water holding system cannot be realized without first taking an in-depth look at the pollution issues that surround the cities waterways.

Pune, Maharashtra, India City and River Over View

Transect Analysis- We evaluated a set of districts adjacent to the Mula Mutha River specifically regarding program, economy, and ecology.

Our proposal is three-pronged. The first and most important system is the water holding network of Nallahs and interconnected infrastructures. The second and third system work in parallel. One system implements a web of physical waste collection and harvesting points that incentivizes communities to collaborate and clean up their neighborhood. The other system filters and treats polluted nallah water before its eventual release into the Mula Mutha.

Great Dismal Swamp- Lake Drummond Cypress Trees

Swamp Filters

December 08, 2018 by Noah Shaye in Streets

Columbia GSAPP: Fall Seminar- 2019 Noah Shaye, Shouta Kanehira

This project imagines the possibilities of swamp ecologies. What if rivers could heal with the same resiliency as a swamp? Our research surrounded Norfolk, Virginia and the Elizabeth River that cuts its way north through the urban fabric to the Chesapeake Bay. The goals of our project are to highlight the existing ecological patterns found thriving in the Great Dismal Swamp and implement them by theoretically blending in swamp ecologies with the river network. What if we could use plants and soil biologies to treat the river at its most polluted points? This set of graphics shows our understanding of how this environment could be reshaped using the localized patterns already in play regionally.

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Post Box Urbanism: Re-Shaping the Suburban Big-Box Landscape.

December 08, 2018 by Noah Shaye in Urban Design, Architecture

Columbia GSAPP: Fall Studio 2018 Noah Shaye, Tina Pang, Gabriel Vergara, Zilu He

The project takes direct aim at the typology of the Big-Box store. Through shrinking and reprogramming the vast expanses of parking and making physical changes to the building’s envelope, these interventions will turn the generic forms and patterns of Big-Box suburbia into site specific, highly efficient, and human-scale places.

Our analysis showed that significant populations of people living in and around the Hudson Valley. In Hudson alone many small communities a reliant upon Big Boxes for commercial needs. We see opportunities to transform big box landscapes to serve a civic benefit alongside a commercial one.

)Net( Working: Pick Up Basketball in Harlem, NY

July 09, 2018 by Noah Shaye

Columbia GSAPP: RNYU - Summer 2018 Noah Shaye, Pei-Jou Shih, Gabriel Vergara