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AZ Awards 2021 Finalist: The Stack Politic

A proposal for a seaweed-processing plant near Bar Harbor, Maine, the Stack Politic makes ingenious use of hyper-local materials.

Year: 2021
Location: Bar Harbor, U.S.
Team: Tim Cousin, Natalie Pearl, Latifa Al Khayat and William Marshall
School: MIT School of Architecture and Planning (Instructors: Sheila Kennedy, Rami El Samahy and Cristina Parreno)
Category: A+ Award for Student Work

A proposal for a seaweed-processing plant near Bar Harbor, Maine, the Stack Politic makes ingenious use of hyper-local materials. The aquatic base of the structure would feature stones salvaged from a nearby quarry and arranged in a crib formation. On top of it are drying huts, made of timber with seaweed insulation and topped with a slate roof.

The most innovative building material of all, though, is the surrounding water, which would engulf the base of the structure during high tides, enabling seaweed farmers to canoe up to the huts and deposit their harvest.

AZ Awards 2021 Finalist: The Stack Politic

A proposal for a seaweed-processing plant near Bar Harbor, Maine, the Stack Politic makes ingenious use of hyper-local materials.

Year: 2021
Location: Bar Harbor, U.S.
Team: Tim Cousin, Natalie Pearl, Latifa Al Khayat and William Marshall
School: MIT School of Architecture and Planning (Instructors: Sheila Kennedy, Rami El Samahy and Cristina Parreno)
Category: A+ Award for Student Work

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2014

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Location

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Team

Professors Keith Zawistowski and Marie Zawistowski with Bethel Abate, Aiysha Alsane, Tyler Atkins, Justin Dennis, Lauren Duda, Huy Duong, Derek Ellison, Megumi Ezure, Katherine Harpst, Ryan Hawkins, Catherine Ives, Anna Knowles-Bagwell, Michael Kretz, Kyle Lee, Jennifer Leeds, Stephanie Mahoney, Leo Naegele, Margaret Nelson, Stephen Perry, Fernanda Rosales, Leah Schaffer, Katherine Schaffernoth, Amanda Schlichting, Ian Shelton, Brent Sikora, Claudia Siles, Emarie Skelton, Samantha Stephenson, Taylor Terrill, Daniel Vantresca, Bryana Warner, Samuel “Aaron” Williams and Samantha Yeh.

2018

Award of MeritA+ Award for Student Work

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Location

Minto, Alaska, USA

School

University of Virginia, USA

2016

Award of MeritA+ Award for Student Work

Re-Generator: An Alternative Coastal Development

School

School: Harvard University Graduate School of Design, U.S.

Designer

Gabriel Muñoz Moreno

Year	2021
Location	Bar Harbor, U.S.
Team	Tim Cousin, Natalie Pearl, Latifa Al Khayat and William Marshall
School	MIT School of Architecture and Planning (Instructors: Sheila Kennedy, Rami El Samahy and Cristina Parreno)
Category	A+ Award for Student Work

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