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6
6
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6
9
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SURFACE ROAD
HUDSON STREET
3
6
6
5
2 16
2
17
11 2
7
2
3
4 5
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8
1. Bathroom 2. Office 3. Mechanical Room 4. IT Closet 5. Book Binding Room 6. Egress Stairs 7. Elevator 8. Children’s Area 9. Circulation Desk 10. Online Catalog Workstation 11. Periodicals 12. Reshelving/Book Cart
1. Bathroom 2. Office 3. Mechanical Room 4. IT Closet 5. Book Binding Room 6. Egress Stairs 7. Elevator 8. Children’s Area 1
1
6
4
SURFACE ROAD
1
1
1
1. Bathroom 2. Office 3. Mechanical Room 4. IT Closet 5. Book Binding Room 6. Egress Stairs 7. Elevator 8. Children’s Area 9. Circulation Desk 10. Online Catalog Workstation 11. Periodicals 12. Reshelving/Book Cart 14. Multimedia 15. Auditorium 16. Conference Room 17. Community Classroom
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6
ENTRANCE & COMMUNITY SPACE GROUND FLOOR
OFFICE & CHILDREN’S SPACE UNDERGROUND LEVEL
7
7
HUDSON STREET
7
14
1
1
6
15
6
10
SECONDARY READING AREA SECOND FLOOR
GENERAL READING AREA FIRST FLOOR
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7
1
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1
6
10
EDUCATION & MEETING FOURTH FLOOR
EVENT SPACE THIRD FLOOR
SOLIDS: ZONING & BOUNDARIES
DEFINING LINEAR & ORGANIC EDGE LONGITUDINAL SECTION 1
EAST ELEVATION
LONGITUDINAL SECTION 2
LONGITUDINAL SECTION 3
SPATIAL SEQUENCE
CHINATOWN BRANCH LIBRARY JASON WU
PRIMARY
CONTRACTION
EMERGENCE
HUDSON STREET SITE BOUNDARY
SECONDARY
SURFACE ROAD Ground Level
IMPLYING EDGE & BOUNDARY
HARD EDGE CREATING EDGE WITHIN URBAN FABRIC
SOFT EDGE
DEPRESSED GROUND CONDITION
DEFINING PATHWAYS
BOOKSTACK FORMATION STRATEGY
DIRECTING MOVEMENT
CREATING ZONES
GROUND & CEILING CONDITIONS STUDY
The site, located on the very edge of Chinatown between 16 Hudson Street and Surface Road, displays various interesting interactions between the buildings and the streets. One of the distinct themes of the project derived from the site is that of the interconnection between voids and solid spaces. This project focuses and experiments with how voids are defined through the articulation of solid spaces. Solid spaces can define voids as condensed and defined or expanded and diffused. The architecture goes through a process of shifting solid spaces and voids to create a sense of juxtapostion, a contradiction between the absence of solids and the presence of nothingness. As a result, a void sequence in the architecture is present.; aspects of emergence and contraction can be experienced. Moreover, the project also aims to juxtapose hard and soft edges as a means to define urban boundaries. The west elevation of the architecture aims to create an edge within the existing urban fabric whereas the east elevation acts as a non-object building that attempts to integrate with the organic flow of Surface Road.
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