A PASSAGE THROUGH TIME

Keywords: Adaptive reuse, Carbon Emission, Material Accountability, Circular Economy

Portman Studio Spring 2020 Instructor: Charles Rudolph

Through the initial analysis and subsequent reconfiguration of an existing urban building, the idea was to experiment with the properties and capacities of both renewable and reused material and their application to new hybridized forms of building assembly and urban social space. The Proposal transforms the existing building into a library for the community by inserting a wooden box that houses the circulation, book-stacks, and Garden. Maintaining the existing structural system the new insertion brings in light and acts as a transition between the formal and informal zones in the building. The formal side of the building keeps the entire building facade intact serving as a memory of the old whereas the informal side of the building resembles the ruin that remains by performing stereotomic traits on the brick facade.