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TORNADO is a multi-layer, rotary, variable and uncertain device, imitating the motion of a real tornado. Five round layers taper from up to down, forming an inverted cone. Four independent continuous ramps connect every layer at periphery. And four small continuous ramps at center connects three upper layers. Together two counterclockwise ramp system form. Air going through the two twisted ramp systems tremendously increases air resistance during falling.

And rotation is generated at the same time because of airflow within the ramp.

Springs are installed between layers, which makes the device stretchable vertically. Variable launching status is obtainable depending on the compression of the device. When a compressed device is launched, it will extend vertically, creating an inner force against the gravity. What uncertain is the moment of extension during the falling. Extension creates perturbation affecting the landing posture so that the final landing is not predictable. However, possibility is always predictable just as weather forecast.

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Ongoing Ramp

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ABOVE A line and an endpoint define an orientation. Road and destination define the orientation of a city. Walking on the street, one by one comes the similar blocks and similar intersections. At a busy intersection. You lose yourself merging into the flow of a fixed direction.

Suddenly, a forest blurs the distinct direction at the corner. At a specific position, you glimpse a ray of light coming from the deep of the forest It’ a straight narrow path and a shiny destination. You are shocked and wake up from the numbness.

You choose to continue your journey, being aware of yourself.

person itself. Individual escapes from the scale of the city finding itself.

One row of arches which not facing the intersection has low arches of human scale at the periphery and higher in the middle. Two building-scale mirrors are erected back to back. The lower arches provide an amicable entrance for people passing by the corner and just about witnessing the intersection to sense the alternative direction, attracting people to walk into. The changing height from the scale of a human to the scale of a building tries to induce people to sense the scale and volume of the city. Individual finds the huge scale contrast between itself and the city.

You choose to change the direction, following the orientation of the light.

Along the path, you encounter with others. In the end, you meet yourself.

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SELF reduces the sense of fixed orientation at the corner of a busy intersection meanwhile creates alternative orientations, waiting to be found. It locates at the southwest corner of 14th St. & 9th Av. intersection, consisted of several ‘pillar arches’.

The total height of each ‘pillar arch’ is same, but the heights of arches are different. Through the observation at the intersection, the distribution of people can be abstracted into several small groups. Then groups form five larger clusters. Looking at the corner from each cluster, four central sight lines can be obtained through bisecting the field of vision. The rows of ‘pillar arches’ are arranged accordingly.

At the most position of the intersection, people can only observe a bunch of ‘pillar arches’ without a specific direction. When encountering with the central sight lines, the rows of arches can be seen.

Three rows of arches face the intersection. The height of arches of each row is high on the periphery and gradually lower on the inside. The changing height from building scale to the human scale attempts to create a transition between a huge public space for the crowd and a small private space for the individual. At the end of the row, a human-scale mirror is erected, reflecting the image of the ILIAS PAPAGEORGIOU

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Forest of ‘Pillar Arch‘

Find SELF

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Group

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Concrete section Concrete section Mirror section Mirror section

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Field of Vision

Central Sight Line

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Mirror Mirror

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The four rows of ‘pillar arch’ not only create a sense of alternative orientation for people beyond but also form nine continuous but different spaces on the site.

Five periphery space connects to the sidewalk, creating spongy spaces for the sidewalk and absorbing the city in an amorphous way. Two triangular spaces enclosed by three rows of arches give the sense of enclosed and the sense of openness within the same space. Two quadrilateral spaces are enclosed by a wall and three rows of arches. The wall is concrete, and rows of arches are semipermeable to the city, which creating a semi-private space for people to stop and introspect.

When people wander in the forest of ‘pillar arch’ across the rows, an image of itself will appear on the left or right side and either far or near. The experience of the space can never be identical in any position of the space.

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IN PURE is a new subway station of L train at the intersection of 14th street and Avenue A. It cuts into the ground with eight consecutive components, replacing 1/3 of the former platform of the station, creating a pure and functional space.

inside the station represent the feelings of Stuy Town and East village, pushing and absorbing people.

Unpleasant experience in Subway pushes people to escape from the subway station. A subway station is a place you don’t want to stay, even if there are a pleasant space and environment.

As a destination or a beginning of the trip, it’s only a step, procedure, a method, a passage. It’s a knot of the city, pump people in and out. Especially in the city of New York, a city without a center, a concentrated city refusing a concentrated function. A subway station should be a subway station and should only be a subway station. A PURE space which is just a highly functional subway station is set to be the ideal.

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However, a subway station deals with underground space. An opposite side of ground or another layer of the city. When you talk about city we treat the landscape and underground as separate parts.

Identical subway stations tell nothing about the ground, but keep telling that you are underground. The distinctive boundary exacerbates the unpleasant feeling, especially when you step into the subway. A blurry boundary is necessary.

It should be not only connection but a transition. The middle gap going through the mezzanine to the ground creates a passage for weather, falling leaves, sunshine, and sound. The lost ground elements are found underground. The lost underground elements are found on the ground.

As to the site, the distinctive differences between Stuy Town and south part create a breakline on 14th street. Stuy Town is a gigantic geometry forest. South part is a flat and organized grassland. Get out of the station, and you are struck by the differences. So extending the ground space to the underground, letting you get used to the break just when you get out of the subway, it will be easier for you to accept the break inside a mechanical and systematic space. The interlaced spaces

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Conceptual space communicates the feeling of space between Stuy Town (up right to bottom left) and East Village (up left to bottom right) /between ground and underground (through the middle gap)

Real space with veritcal section at 3/4 longitude Vertical section of ground, mezanine, and platform

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Avenue A Mezanine Level Plan

Platform Level Plan

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Lean and meditate

Wait at platform

Direct exit from platform

Feel being pushed by the wall

Enter to the ground

For Everyone

Go to former platform

Events happen inside the station. Two escalators bring suffocate people from the platform to the ground. Behind the arch of the platform, people rest and meditate waiting for the subway. A middle river on the mezzanine reflects the sunshine, holds the rains, and echoes.

People go across the river feeling the break of the space on the ground. The interlaced shell structure push people back and forth, functionally pushing people in and out and also providing the changing feeling of space.

Suffocate by subway Escape to ground

Find a river Go across

:A nice stage

Go to Mezzanine

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Time Theater is a sculpture museum using the up and down of tide to create a changing visit circulation and to provide the audience diverse appreciation angle and experience. Driven by time, the changing tide injects the sense of eternity and the sense flowing toward space, creating a rice background for the sculpture to tell its connotation.

Time Theater

The East River Park is a solitude for the city. The FDR and the river bank isolate the park from both city texture and East River water. The straight river bank indicates a clear boundary between the pavement and river. Time Theater creates stretching arms connecting the water and the land. People can touch the water at the edge of the platform and can feel the changing of tide observing the submerged platform. Through the Time Theater, the land and water merge.

Outdoor sculptures are erected on different stages. Some stages located on the platform which is submerged all the time, the audience can only appreciate from a distance. Other stages located on the platform which can be submerged a few hours a day, the audience can closely appreciate the sculpture during low tide and observe from a distance during high tide. Also during the low tide, all visiting circulations are accessible. And visitor will use upper-level platform to get to different exhibition room during the high tide.

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-8 ft Low Tide

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Top Platform 10ft

12ft Top Platform

Floor Entrance -2ft

6ft Platform Circulation

Platform Circulation -6ft

Sculpture Spot -8ft -8ft Exhibiton Room Floor

The entrance is lightly attached a sinking platform on the riverside. Visitors go up to the top platform to get into the Time Theater. The top platform is the main visiting circulation which is accessible all the time. Visitors can go down a few stairs to get to five different indoor exhibition rooms.

Five exhibition rooms have different height and area which can adapt to the different size of the sculpture. The two rooms near the riverside are connected with the 0ft platform. They also separately connect to the middle two rooms through -6ft platform, which can be submerged when the tide is higher than average. The middle two rooms are connected by -6ft platform and connecting to the far end room through the 6ft platform.

There is three underwater space under three exhibition room. The far end one acts as an exhibition theater. The other two act a lecture rooms.

Lecture Room -26ft

-18ft Projection Room Entrance

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Time Theater