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WIP - CHRYSLER BUILDING REUSE
WEAVING HORIZONS
SERPENTINE TOWNHOUS(ING)
EXPERIENTIAL URBANISM
VAULTED DIALOGUES
FORMAL ANALYSIS
A THIRD
SOLAR DECATHLON
RESEARCH WIP - NODES OF THE CITY
DL1310 APERTURE
SPRINGTECTURE
PASSERELLE LA DEFENSE
BCM ROOFTOP PAVILION
CARBON CHAIR
SHELL FORM FINDING
DESCRIPTIVE GEOMETRY
NON-ARCH RELIEF
KUNSTHALLE BASEL
- An Ecological Institute on Newtown Creek in the Form of Water
Part-Multiparts-Whole-Urban/Industrial Context-Ecological Consideration
Starting from exploring the materiality of water, the class was asked to develop a conceptual/abstract system that could self-iterate to create the spatial prototype, which later on fit the programs of an ecological institute that provides both a laboratory space that monitor the Newtown Creek ecological index and public spaces, including two daylit galleries and an auditorium.
In my case, by exploring the recreation of the imagery of the water in which inhabitable spaces form by boundaries of undulating surfaces, I experimented with different spatial prototypes. One of them overcomes the others, providing an intertwining scheme that binds programs together while using a rectangular profile to create a continuous waterfront. Trigular splits not only became the structure that formed a giant colonnade, across which the vessel can pass through, but also created undulating spaces that could fit in the servant programs. The undulating roof landscape creates a picturesque experience while weaving between two levels, creating shortcuts that connect the entrances directly.