Nora Wright

Nora Wright is a fourth-year student in the BArch program at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. At RPI, she is an active member of NOMAS (National Organization of minority Architecture Students) and the African Students’ Association, and aspires to integrate all parts of her identity into her design whenever relevant. At CASE, Nora is working to question the potential for an insulation type that is made from hemp, a natural material, as a replacement for normative insulation, specifically fiberglass insulation. Her proposal involves the transformation of Lake and Rail warehouse and grain elevator (part of Silo City in Buffalo, NY) into a manufacturing and storage facility that includes ancillary programs such as research and housing. She is also researching the potential development of a plant phytoremediation database that could be used to enhance the built environment by encouraging designers to build with plants.