KELLY NEILL Columbia University - GSAPP The Shape of Two Cities - NY/ P Process Book - Fall 2013 ken2127@columbia.edu www.kelly-neill.com
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TABLE OF CONTENTS Orchard Street - Oxford Shirt Flatiron Building - Screen Contain Display Garment District - Changeroom Bryant Park - Bleacher Seating Lincoln Centre - New York Atelier Palais Garnier - Paris Atelier
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ASSIGNMENT 1: OXFORD SHIRT New York Site: Orchard Street Paris Site: Excerpt from An Attempt at Exhausting a Space in Paris Critic: Babak Bryan
The gentrification that is occuring on Orchard Street is a small sample of a larger trend happening throughout New York City. By examining the hardware of the thresholds along the entire street one begins to gain an insight into its development. The prosthetic similarly focused on the hardware of the shirt, the buttons and its its development the project sought to enhance the feeling of inaccessibility along the site. Oxford Shirt | 4
ORIGINAL SHIRT - FRONT ELEVATION SCALE 1:1 KELLY NEILL
MODIFIED SHIRT - FRONT ELEVATION SCALE 1:1 KELLY NEILL
PROSTHETIC SHIRT - FRONT ELEVATION SCALE 1:1 KELLY NEILL
Diagram (left) Front & Back Elevations Manipulations (top) Prosthetic - Oxford Shirt (bottom) MODIFIED SHIRT - BACK ELEVATION SCALE 1:1 KELLY NEILL
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PROSTHETIC SHIRT - BACK ELEVATION SCALE 1:1 KELLY NEILL
ASSIGNMENT 2: SCREEN CONTAIN DISPLAY New York Site: Flatiron Building Paris Site: Screen by Eileen Gray Critic: Eduardo Rega Calvo
Futher analysis of thresholds was of interest to this project. It explores how physical & implied boundaries found on the street level inform the unique geometry of the site & subsequently programmatic zones. By diagramming how the public deviates from these boundaries, the screen structure became informed of how to directly advertise to those that disobey the suggested route and conceal items from those that adhere to the rules. Screen Contain Display | 6
Diagram (left) Plan - Elevations - Axonometric (top) Model - Basswood -Collage (bottom)
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ASSIGNMENT 3 : CHANGEROOM New York Site: Garment District Paris Site: Excerpt from Species of Spaces Critic: Thomas De Monchaux & Sarah Carpenter
In studying the micro movements of the vest on traffic officer the discovery that the garment on the body can signify similar thresholds as developed in Assignment 2 was the basis for designing the changeroom. By just small changes in posture, the garmet drastically alters the spaces around it and similarly, for every movement a user makes while going through the process of changing the opposing changeroom’s spacial qualities are largely impacted. Changeroom | 8
Diagram (left) Plan (top) Section Perspective (right) Model - Basswood & Twine (bottom)
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ASSIGNMENT 4: BLEACHER SEATING New York Site: Bryant Park Paris Site: Pompidou Centre Critic: Jane Kim
This is an analysis of how the insertion of an inherently extroverted builing such as the Pomidou Centre alters the intrinsic introverted nature of Bryant Park. The purpose of seating structure is to faciliate this change and bring the focus back toward the building. The process of projecting at inverting the programatic densties of both sites provided the varying heights of the structure to inform form the occupiable canopy. Bleacher Seating | 10
Concept Diagrams (left) Inversion of program densitys through the lens of exisiting gridlines (top) Model - Basswood & Blue Tape (bottom)
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FINAL 1: NEW YORK ATELIER New York Site: Lincoln Centre Paris Site: Parisan designer Critic: Jane Kim
The bench structure that straddles the site acts as a subtle threshold into the central square and by documenting how people occupy and move around it, it becomes apparent that it plays an integral role in creating moments of pause and movement. The main objective is to blur the thresholds of public & privledge spaces through the use of inversion while still maintaining the link to the park and ultimately reinvigerating the space. New York Atelier | 12
1 Studio 2 Fabrication & Prototype 3 Entrance 4 Catwalk & Circulation Spine 5 Archives
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Diagram (left) Timelapse study of bench (above) Plan (right)
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Half
Wall / Floor
Screen
Window
Pedestrian
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Module studies (upper left) Model - Chipboard (upper right) Approach vignette of throughway (lower left) Retail vignette over looking Lincon Centre Square (lower right)
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Avenue de l'Opéra - Amplitheatre
Avenue de l’Opera - Ampitheatre
Amplitheatre - Loggia
Ampitheatre - Loggia
FINAL 2: PARIS ATELIER New York Site: Lincoln Centre Paris Site: Palais Garnier Critic: Babak Bryan
The intent of the intervention is to combat the symmetry of the plan by providing a unique & varied experience through the inversion of compressed & expanded volumes, while still being respectful of the opera house in its original programmatic intent. Formally, the project is inspired by the simplicity of the Lincoln Centre’s bench as a monolithic structure but as the public moves under, within and above, only then do they appreciate it’s dynamic and highly tailored environments of movement and pause.
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PRIVATE STORAGE
DRESSING ROOM
DESIGN STUDIO
ADMIN DISPLAY
DIS PUBLIC ARCHIVE
RETAIL
FABRICATION
Diagram (left) Programmatic Plan (top) Longitudinal Section (bottom)
CAFE
DRESS. RM.
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DESIGN STUDIO
ADMIN
DISPLAY
DIS
Storage
Adminstration
Archive
Fabrication
Studio Cafe
Retail
Dressing Room
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Cross sections of structural elements (left) Section - admin & fabrication suspended within the central vestibule (upper left) Section - interal studio spaces cafe overlooking Grand Foyer (lower left) Sectional Model - cardboard & basswood w/ plexi (upper right) First encounter vignette of archive and display (lower right)
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