Littoral Urbanism Lab | University of Miami

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The Office

Chris Meyer working in the lab
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Into the Woods: A Carbon Story

LU_Lab Director Chris Meyer and Scott Sager take students on a trip to learn about mass timber. Click the image to learn more.

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Model-Making

A big component of the lab is making models, shown here with Chris.
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Tampa Panel Event

Panelists at the event in Tampa titled: Florida Resilience: Strategizing Roles in Southern Yellow Pine Mass Timber Movement spoke about mass timber processes and future outlooks on the industry. Click the image to learn more.
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Climate Refuge Project

The Climate Refuge Project helps to answer the question "Where am I going to live?" which is asked by hundreds of Floridians each year following a hurricane. Click the image to learn more.
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Collaboration

Chris and Shawna Meyer working in the lab
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Fibrous Tectonics

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Further Insights

LITTORAL URBANISM LAB

 

The LU_lab operates as a knowledge-gathering center and project-based design group focused on the evolving dialogue binding urbanism and environment. The work of the LU_lab acknowledges the responsibility of architecture as the curator of the constructed world to create a reciprocal relationship between the built and natural environments. Lines of inquiry will be explored through two means of investigation: interrogation and provocation.

The environmental circumstance within littoral settings will be interrogated as a means to reveal concealed and often masked embedded logic. Methods of research will employ a multi-scalar approach to translate the specific dialogue of place: from the molecular, material, assembly, site, and territory.

Provocation is a means to insight public awareness of an evolving and dynamic environmental circumstance engulfing littoral urbanism. The LU_lab as a provocateur will initiate change in the design process to reshape the construction of our built environment. 

Existing and future strategic partnerships focus on innovations within manufacturing + industry, public and private policymaking, and educational institutions. LU_lab projects are set up to engage collaborative and diverse teams that explore future design scenarios embedded in cultural, economic, social, and ecological urbanisms. Through these partnerships, and expanded architectural agency will foster new techniques of built solutions for dynamic wet | dry environments.

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The LU_lab operates under four principles in which their definitions are in a constant state of evolution.

Recover Ecological Authority
Engage System Thinking
Accept Dynamic Environments
Synthesize Architecture + Environmental Circumstance

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