Are You Washed in the Mud?
Montecito, CA
Columbia University GSAPP
Role: Student
Output: Masterplan
Mudslides in California create sunken relics of a suburban typology. Montecito is rebuilt with the mud that destroyed the community in 2018.
The Thomas Fire
Research
This is how the mud flows.
Low Pressure System
Site Plan
Mound Burial Pavilion
A museum preserving the sunken homes.
Porous Pavilion
A communal space for events.
Boulder Shrine
Tunnel Infrastructure Masterplan
Mud Model with Tunnel Infrastructure
Mudslide Map
Architecture
Fluid Dynamics Site Study
Construction Detail
Guastavino mud brick construction.
Mound Burial Pavilion Interior Renders
Suburban Home Shrine
Mountain Infrastructure Intervention
Damage Evaluation
Excavated Landscape Experience
Sunken homes are left to be viewed.
Tree Shrine
An infrastructure plan in the Santa Ynez mountains uses the natural slopes of the mountain range to distribute mud and debris across the mountain range, limiting the damage to Montecito in future mudslides.
Isolated Mountain Tunnel Render
Mud Model of the Santa Ynez Mountains