If you are currently a UWM undergraduate and are interested in getting involved in a faculty-led research experience, you can start by looking through this database of over 600 projects that represent the kind of mentored work students are involved in all across campus. You can search research projects by school or college, major, or key word. You may add up to seven projects to your list and submit them with our simple form.
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This research will support an ongoing book and exhibition project to be completed in 2027 and presented at the Venice Architecture Biennale documenting and analyzing architectural design/discourse in the 1990s centered on the magazine: Architecture New York (ANY). This work is being done in collaboration with colleagues at ETH Zurich, Ohio State University, and Ball State University and is an advanced stage; with initial publication agreement and exhibition approval in place. It will involve the development of draft textual summaries and preliminary information graphics for the publication and exhibition. The research methodology will involve identifying, compiling, and performing textual/topic analysis of writings and design project linked to the articles identified for republication in the final book. Methods will also include iterative development of information graphics based on graphic, timeline, and textual analysis of architectural projects documented in or surrounding the ANY magazine publication and its participants.
This research will catalog and categorize vacant suburban office park locations in the Milwaukee area for the purpose of creating a document outlining common traits and diverse contexts of the building typology to be used in identifying suitable design interventions to reduce vacancies. The first element, cataloging, will involve initial identification, site map drawing, plus the creation of floor plans an other descriptive drawings. The second element, categorization, will involve analyzing the completed catalog drawings through an additional set of drawings combined with the development of descriptive texts grouping the cataloged buildings under a series of common themes. The collection of the cataloging and categorizing work will be compiled into a single booklet which will support future design studio course teaching and will form a component of a future publication on problems and potentials of office architecture amid changing work/inhabitation patterns in the mid-21st century.
This second-phase research project will scale and apply an established waste PLA recycling workflow to the design, fabrication, installation, and performance testing of a building envelope solar control device. The project will convert post-consumer and post-process PLA waste from campus 3D printing into engineered components for a façade-mounted solar control system. The student researcher will work directly with the faculty mentor to develop the material processing, design the device, fabricate prototypes, and install and test the system’s ability to manage solar exposure and to produce measurable atmospheric and microclimatic effects at the installation site. This work will build on prior research conducted by this lab in which waste PLA was processed into a laser cutter compliant sheet goods and turned into lamps. This project builds on an initial grant that established a basic PLA collection, cleaning, and re-extrusion workflow and produced small-scale test specimens. The proposed work is the logical next step: engineering the recycled PLA into structural and functional elements suitable for a building envelope application and validating performance in situ.