Research - youarethecity I Kaja Kühl

Research / Writing / Teaching

The Atlas For Regenerative Construction in the American Northeast, 2025

multi-scalar research to explore landscapes in the American Northeast as sources for new bioregional construction

Designing Housing as Carbon Storage, 2024

Category : Teaching

Graduate Architecture Studio and Research Workshop at the Spitzer School of Architecture at the City College of New York with Anoushae Eirabie

Climate Corridors, 2024 – ongoing

Category : Research, Teaching

Research and related seminar to explore large urban roadways as spaces for climate action.

Urban Soil, 2024

Category : Exhibition, Research

Research and exhibition at the Urban Soil Institute on Governors Island, 2024

Regenerative Insulation, 2023

Category : Publication, Research

Paper for the 2023 ACSA/AIA Intersections Research Conference: MATERIAL ECONOMIES carbon-storing insulation

Earth Storage, 2023

Category : Design, Research

Research and Design for an underground storage space built with raw earth

Hemp Homes, 2022

Category : Design, Research

Two guest homes experimenting with biobased materials in the Hudson Valley

The Climate Crisis Studio, 2019, 2021

Category : Teaching

Urban Design studios at Columbia University GSAPP envisioning a Green New Deal

Research Diary

Category : Ongoing, Publication

Research diary documenting some nerdy explorations about climate action in urban design, architecture and planning.

Vacant Land (A Pilot), 2020

Category : Publication

Field Notes from the Hudson Valley, Hudson Valley Initiative at Columbia University GSAPP, 2020

Spaces of Migration, 2018

Category : Article

Article in "Housing as Intervention: Architecture towards social equity (Architectural Design)," edited by Karen Kubey, highlights the efforts to house newcomers to Germany between 2015 and 2018.

Future Maker/s Future Market/s, 2017

Category : Design, Teaching

Future Maker/s Future Market/s: Incubating the Invisible talents in Berlin-Lichtenberg A design concept and strategy to support refugee entrepreneurs

What If NYC?

Competition // 2007 Unfolding a Community is a design response to the lessons learned from hurricane Katrina in 2005, where...