FUZZY AGGREGATE - MULTIFUNCTIONAL THEATER
course name : Advanced Studio New Mixed Use Building instructor: Georgina Huljich quarter: Fall Quarter 2019
The project intends to speculate on the American version of developer driven “MixUse”, a bastardized typology for urban density, one that has become so predictably formulaic so as to called a ‘Bento Box’ by OMA NY Principal Shohei Shigematsu, by offering a fixed and cliché notion of variety, multiplicity and fake choice that repeats adinfinitum. By looking at more risky ways of incorporating cultural institutions as well as other spaces such as co-working and educational activities in close proximity to residential programs, the studio intends to expose students to an important fact of the contemporary architectural field: that architects must have a say not only in the actual form and aesthetics of buildings but also in the distribution and composition of programs and activities that supports them. Only in this way, by absolutely and strategically marrying form and content, architects can continue to reinvigorate and re-invent the city and the realm of the urban, while pushing forward radically plausible architectural agendas.
