INSTITUTIONS
2G1/3G4 - ARCH 552 - FALL 2025
The Huron River Exchange: Transforming Infrastructures of Control into an Ecology of Care
STUDENT

Catherine Henebery


PROFESSOR

Dawn Gilpin


This project reimagines infrastructures of control along the Huron River as evolving architectures of care. Once built to regulate and extract, these sites are reframed as civic and ecological thresholds where the river’s slowing currents foster reflection, stewardship, and collective action. Each becomes an “eddy of architecture,” where structures appear, transform, and recede with seasonal rhythms. Modular, community-built frameworks host spaces for exchange, workshops, and gatherings that respond to cycles of use, repair, and renewal. Permanent industrial remnants anchor memory while lighter structures invite adaptation and participation. Rather than asserting mastery, the project cultivates awareness through maintenance, reciprocity, and shared responsibility between human and river systems.