Monster Studio

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Editor: Katherine Lai University of Virginia School of Architecture Arch 3020/4020 - Abbasy/Dripps Spring 2013

monster: a study in vertical neighborhoods and hybrid urbanisms A Collaborative Project of

UVA School of Architecture DDG Hudson Companies The Real Deal

Sponsors:

Joeseph McMillan, DDG David Kramer, Hudson Companies Inc. Sally Gilliland, Hudson Companies Inc. Amir Korangy, The Real Deal

Instructors:

Robin Dripps Ghazal Abbasy-Asbagh

Teaching Assistants:

Nick Knodt Lain Lai Jiang

Students:

Adede Amenyah Seth Brown Kate Brandy Ephraim Chaney Zachary Coles Enrique Cavelier Joshua Cruz Max Cuttler Alejandro Garrido Kaitlin Gerson Tyler Hayley Taylor Herring Harry Hofman Matt Himes Katherine Lai Irene Preciado Michael Sions Xavier Scipio Tammy Teng Jake Tuzzo Annie Tavetian Sonad Uygur Cheryl Xu Lu Hayley Yeager Saman Zomorodi Edited by Katherine Lai

Aggregate|Circulate|Occupy The Vertical Favela Rethinking the urban block as a new form of housing Occupying the Urban Canopy Scales of Access [Earth|Sky]Ward Urban Farming

Introverted/Extroverted Articulating Center and Edge 325 W. [Brew]ster Street 21st Century in Motion Abiguous Fluid

Tammy Teng + Irene Preciado Max Cuttler + Alejandro Garrido Perez Enrique Cavelier Joshua Cruz Kaitlin Gerson + Hayley Yeager Michael Sions+ Saman Zomorodi Adede Amenyah+ Xavier Scipio + Sonad Uygur

Katherine Lai & Ephraim Chaney Seth Brown Anne Tavetian + Kate Brandy Jake Tuzzo + Matt Himes Cheryl Lu Xu

monster [mon-ster] noun 1.a legendary animal combining features of animal and humanform or having the forms of various animals in combination, as a centaur, griffin, or sphinx.

2.any creature so ugly or monstrous as to frighten people.

3.any animal or human grotesquely deviating from the normalshape, behavior, or character.

4.a person who excites horror by wickedness, cruelty, etc.

5.any animal or thing huge in size.

The concept of “deviating from the normal shape, behavior, or character”, suggests the existence of a normal condition. The premise of this studio is to re-consider this normal condition and explore various hybrid conditions that would result in an abnormality. Building on the premise that the “normal” -- the current modes of urbanism -- are no longer sustainable ecologically, socially or economically, this studio will be an investigation in hybridities -- cultural, phenomenal, economical, ecological, programmatic, spatial, formal, and others -- as vehicle for new urbanisms. Cities are places of transaction where information, goods, cultural production, etc. all form an active network of negotiation. The subsequent frictions among a set of varied urban actors constitutes the vital economics, political, and cultural pulse of cities. While the stability of enduring rituals, modes of being, accommodating as well as generating spatial structures are important systems of reference, it is the encounter

with the unknown, the other, the foreign that will catalyze the most substantial forms of cultural advance. Density and multiplicity are crucial to its working. Cities are places of dwelling. This complex condition of public encounter and private domesticity also requires a richly variegated field of relationships. Density and connectivity are critical.

The intersection and engagement of the city of transaction and the place of dwelling is the basis for urban hybridities. These two ideas of urban relationship have different but interestingly interwoven spatial typologies. The cellular, repetitive nature of habitation must engage the fluid and open connectivity of transactional space. Boundaries between the two need to operate more as rich ecotones where the greatest diversity will be found. These will of necessity become thick, layered liminal zones of cultural, social, and political action. In a climate where cities are shrinking, non-cities are becoming the centers of human activity, and dormitory neighborhoods have become the norm, we propose to investigate density as a possible way to generate new modes of urbanism; and further propose to challenge existing codes and practices by way of exploring new hybrid conditions.

As the first in a series of research studios, this studio anticipates to test out this agenda in different urban conditions. While the overarching pedagogical agenda of this studio is to examine hybridity as vehicles for high-density housing, we contend that different urban conditions -- dense city, shrinking city, industrial/post industrial city, and the noncity -- will require different hybridities that will potentially result in a variety of responses in the production of high density housing.

This studio travelled to New York city and Brooklyn, to visit sites and to engage with developers, whose generosity with their time and resources allowed the students to become familiar with the challenges and potentials of working in a dense urban site.

A recipe for housing A series of exercises accompanied by workshops and short lectures were arranged to support the multiplicity of issues the studio aims to address.

Patterns & Algorithms Architecture is always situated within a dense field of relationships. It emerges from this field and yet remains fully engaged. The emergent structure, however, has enough legitimate authority on its own to in turn cause disturbances in the original field. This complex interchange of quasi figural space and supporting field will be explored abstractly by developing ordered two dimensional repetitive patterns (grids), inventing rules to make these three dimensional and then introducing anomalies to create disturbances, gradients, scalar shifts, provocative gaps and moments of density. The internal logic of action on the fields should be clearly represented as a set of rules within the expected outcomes.

parametric thinking + grasshopper workshops

Public space analysis Extending the process of the first exercise and the discoveries about public and private intersections and boundaries within the domestic environment, this next project will analyze a public space to make hypotheses about the spatial strategies that mediate these relationships in the public realm. Of particular interest should be the threshold or liminal spaces that mediate between spatial differences. Analytic sketches and rigorous 3D diagrams will be tested for their ability to extract spatial tactics that could eventually generate designed outcomes.

Multiple layers of spaces existing within this public space will be examined and the edges and the gradients of publicness and privatness will be identified. Historical and contemporary examples will be engaged in order to study the transformation of the role and nature of these spaces in order to map the changing patterns of activity. The public space could range from staircase to public bathroom and classroom to public plaza.

housing workshop - study of housing types and thresholds, public spaces,

relationship to the city, ..

A spatial puzzle of dwelling This exercise sets out to investigate the essence of dwelling in a narrow and deep space between two existing houses. The deliberately constrained site envelope will

require developing complex spatial structures capable of a critical accommodation of the topological relationships of dwelling under conditions not typically favorable to this. Internal relationships among the various categories of inhabitants and relationships between this interior world and the larger urban context will require inventive manipulation of actual and implied spatial boundaries. While the limit posed by the dimensions of the space challenges our preconceived ideas about the house and enforces thinking about the dwelling in terms of spaces for various activities of living, sleeping, cooking, dining, and working, the placement of this structure -- lodged between two existing houses -- questions the state of ‘housing’ and meaning of ‘property’ as conventionally understood and accepted.

dwelling workshop - study of spatial overlaps, privacy, circulation and more in row houses, courtyard type, historical examples, c’ville houses, suburban house, apartment unit

Aggregate - inform & transform (i) This abstract field structures and the set of rule based disturbances can now be understood as a three dimensional armature for dwelling units. Returning to the ‘spatial puzzle’, extract principles operations, and spatial relationships that define a basic dwelling unit. The dwelling module should be able to undergo morphological transformations without compromising the fundamental relationships that have been revealed through diagrams. These morphological transformations will be derived from requirements of aggregation and connectivity.

We will populate the a-periodic, irregular, 3-dimensional armature developed in the first exercise with the dwelling module and its variants. In a multi-directional feed-back loop, we will study how this module and its variants and the armature inform and transform one another. The anomalous conditions developed in the first exercise will allow for the introduction of public spaces and connectivity, while the dwelling unit and its conditions -- of interiority and exteriority, ground, and spatial arrangements -- will engage the aggregation logic and introduce new algorithms.

This will produce a prototypical housing block that is at once specific to the module, aggregation patterns and its anomalies, and capable of being deployed and tested at varying urban conditions.

parametric workshop There are several possibilities of workflows present in this phase: The process of aggregation could start with a logic derived from the first

exercise,

while a secondary system could be superimposed to introduce ideas of structure and circulation. Alternatively, systems of structure and circulation could be derived from the aggregation logic developed in the first exercise.

housing workshop - mats, towers, slabs & blocks and their organizational strategies

Contaminate - inform & transform ( ii) (site visit March 23-25) Starting with the prototypical housing block, we will look at specific site conditions that will inform the housing block in a multi-directional feedback loop. Building on the idiosyncrasies and restrictions of the urban environment we will contaminate the prototypical housing project to create hybrid conditions that respond to the city, while producing new modes of urbanism.

The site conditions will produce a number of conditions, as required by the developer as well as the city, that will inform the prototypical block. In a series of short and rigorous exercises (March 20-27) we will extract and share the following information that would be plugged into the algorithms and patterns of the previous exercises and quite possibly become the basis for developing new algorithms and generators of new patterns.

- zoning envelope studies - pro forma development: number and sizes of units, land value, construction costs, resale value, Ratios of housing to other programs, public spaces, green spaces - building codes requirements: circulation, parking, open space, etc.

- urban conditions

zoning workshop - A case study of Manhattan and the manifestation of

zoning in ground and sky lines

mapping workshop - A case study of Manhattan and its historical maps in

respect to topography, ecology, infrastructure and edge conditions We will use the site conditions to test out the rigor and sturdyness of the prototype, while allowing the city to contaminate it. While the primary role of the prototype is as a collective of dwelling, its role in making the city is significant.

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1900s - 1950s FLATBUSH AVENUE ETHNIC DIVERSITY

Primarily Jews, Irish-Americans, and Italian-Americans

1960s - PRESENT FLATBUSH AVENUE ETHNIC DIVERSITY RESIDENTIAL

Influx of immigrants from the Caribbeans (West Indies): Haiti, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, Grenada, Guyana, Barbados, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grendines, Dominica, Antigua and Barbuda, Saint Kitts and Nevis and Belize

Since 1980s: South Asian immigrants - India, Pakistan, Bangladesh + African countries like Ghana, Zimbabwe, Nigeria, and Kenya

MARKET ANALYSIS | INCOME| DEMOGRAPHICS

MARKET ANALYSIS | INCOME| DEMOGRAPHICS MEDIAN HOUSE INCOME (2009): $42,166 PER CAPITA INCOME: $23,605 BELOW POVERTY LEVEL:People 16% POPULATION: 84,498

HOUSING UNITS: 29,242 Housing units POPULATION: 84,498 People HOUSING UNITS: 29,242 Housing units

NO DEGREE: 27.2% HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATES: 56.5% BACHELORS DEGREE OR HIGHER: 16.3%

NO DEGREE: 27.2% POPULATION: 84,498 People HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATES: 56.5%units HOUSING UNITS: 29,242 Housing BACHELORS DEGREE OR HIGHER: 16.3% NO DEGREE: 27.2% HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATES: 56.5% BACHELORS DEGREE OR HIGHER: 16.3% http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/36000.html

MARKET ANALYSIS | INCOME| DEMOGRAPHICS http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/36000.html

MEDIAN HOUSE INCOME (2009): $42,166 PER CAPITA INCOME: $23,605 BELOW POVERTY LEVEL: 16% http://www.city-data.com/income/income-Brooklyn-New-York.html

BUILDING TYPOLOGIES

Mixed Use

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BROOKLYN POPULATION: 2,504,700 NEW YORK CITY AREA: 97 sq mi NEW YORK CITY DENSITY: 36,356 persons/sq mi

NEW YORK CITY DENSITY 27,012.5 persons/sq

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NYC AREA POPULATION GROWTH

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Housing units in BROOKLYN: 1,001,210

Percent of people with a high school diploma

NYC: 83.6% BROOKLYN: 85.7% NYC: 2.61

NYC: 32.6% BROOKLYN: 29.9%

1,167,549

Persons reporting two or more races

2.2%

PERSON PER HOUSEHOLD

HOUSING UNITS IN MULTI-UNIT STRUCTURES

HOMEOWNERSHIP RATE

944,677

People speaking a language other than English

PER CAPITA MONEY INCOME 2011

BROOKLYN: 2.70

PERSON BELOW POVERTY LEVEL

NYC: $31,417

NYC: 19.4%

BROOKLYN: $24.398

BROOKLYN: 22.1%

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Number of High Schools

178

Percent of people with a college diploma

29.2%

Percent of persons under 18

Percent of persons older then 65

23.6%

11.5%

Number of Colleges

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NON-CONTEXTUAL - diverse mix of dwelling types encourage height factor regulations R7-1 BROOKLYN R7-1 BROOKLYN RESIDENTIAL DISTRICT: MEDIUM-DENSITY APARTMENT HOUSE DISTRICTS Permitted: Residential uses and community facilities R7-1 BROOKLYN RESIDENTIAL DISTRICT: MEDIUM-DENSITY HOUSE DISTRICTS NON-CONTEXTUAL - diverse mix of dwellingAPARTMENT types encourage height factor regulations Prohibited: Manufacturing and commercial use NON-CONTEXTUAL - diverse mix of dwellingAPARTMENT types encourage height factor regulations RESIDENTIAL DISTRICT: MEDIUM-DENSITY HOUSE DISTRICTS NON-CONTEXTUAL - diverse mix of dwelling types encourage height factor regulations Permitted: Residential uses and community facilities RESIDENTIAL DISTRICT: MEDIUM-DENSITY APARTMENT HOUSE DISTRICTS FLOOR AREA RATIOS (FAR): TOTAL BUILDING FLOOR AREA Permitted: Residential uses and community facilities = 3.440 Prohibited: Manufacturing andmix commercial usetypes encourage height NON-CONTEXTUAL - diverse of dwelling factor regulations ZONING LOT AREA Prohibited: Manufacturing Permitted: Residential usesand andcommercial communityuse facilities Prohibited: Manufacturing and commercial use Permitted: Residential uses and community facilities FLOOR AREA RATIOS (FAR): TOTAL BUILDING FLOOR AREA = 3.440 FLOOR AREA RATIOS (FAR): BUILDING FLOOR AREA Prohibited: Manufacturing andTOTAL commercial use ZONING LOT AREA = 3.440 FLOOR AREA RATIOS (FAR): TOTALZONING BUILDING LOTFLOOR AREA AREA = ft3.440 PERMITTED FLOOR AREA: 62,347 sq. ft x 3.440 = 214,473.68 sq.

ZONING LOT AREA FLOOR RATIOS (FAR): TOTAL BUILDING FLOOR AREA Full PlotAREA Area | No Public Incentive = 3.440 PERMITTED FLOOR AREA: 62,347 sq. ft x 3.440 = 214,473.68 sq. ft ZONING LOT AREA FLOOR HEIGHT: 10 Ft PERMITTED FLOOR AREA: 62,347 sq. ft x 3.440 = 214,473.68 sq. ft PERMITTED FLOOR AREA: 62,347 sq. ft x 3.440 = 214,473.68 sq. ft PERMITTED FLOOR AREA: 62,347 sq. ft x 3.440 = 214,473.68 sq. ft 6

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Base Area: 27,005 SF (2 FL) Top Area: 11,025 SF (14 FL) Floors: 16

Base Area: 16,355 SF Floors: 13

Base Area: 19,100 SF (1 FL) Middle Area: 9,600 (3 FL) Top Area: 9,600 (17 FL) Floors: 21

Aggregate/Circulate/Occupy Tammy Teng + Irene Preciado ACO, or Aggregate, Circulate, Occupy, is a modular housing complex that utilizes the concept of ‘deviating from the normal shape, behavior, or character’ of a normal living condition. Located on Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn, New York, ACO reconsiders various hybrid conditions within the city by investigating cultural, economic, programmatic, spatial, and formal qualities. Richly embedded in various cultural amenities (primarily those of African American and South Indian stores and restaurants), ACO alters the meaning of a dwelling by creating complex conditions of public encounter and private domesticities within the housing complex. From Flatbush Avenue, a Brooklynite can enter into ACO’s three story commercial center of restaurants, shops, and other amenities as though it were still a part of Flatbush. The ACO complex is made of five central elevator cores (150 feet high, approx. 15 levels) aggregating various sized units around each core. Each unit fits to overlap one another at varying degrees to ensure light gets into each unit and for the possibility of transforming a studio apartment into a four-bedroom apartment if necessary. Moreover, the individual unitized apartments meet to make clusters that form small green communal spaces for engagement between residents. ACO circulates by utilizing the slant roofs of each apartment as stairs (using a 7:11 stair ratio); upon exiting the elevator, a resident of ACO walks up or down a set of stairs to occupy their apartment unit.

FLATBUSH Ave.

HOUSING COMMERCIAL COMMUNITY CENTER SITE

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RURTLAND Rd.

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PARKSIDE Ave.

The Vertical Favela

Alejandro Perez + Max Cuttler

This projects studied the informality of the favela and placed into the rigidly grided, urban context of New York City. In doing so, It re-negotiated the relationship between planned, modern cities and informal, emergent urban landscapes.

Rethinking the urban block as a new form of housing Enrique Cavelier This project started as an understanding of the current conditions of an urban block in Brooklyn. I began to ask myself what generates an aggregation of dwellings in an urban block and what kind of spatial conditions those aggregations create. Thanks to that investigation I was able to draw three important concepts that drove my design. The first concept was the idea of GENERATORS as program and spatial conditions that are able to create and aggregation of units around. And thus I started the design of my project by creating 5 courtyards that had 5 distinct programs around which the apartment units would aggregate. The second concept was the idea of HYBRIDS as spatial and programmatic conditions mixed in an unconventional manner. This concept lead me to research how I could spatial and programmatically mix multiple activities in each courtyard. For example how a meadow, a cafĂŠ, a theater and core could happen in a single space at the same time. And the third concept was the BINARY as an investigation on how space and program and be rearranged in such a manner that they break the 1-2 rule that ties them together. This idea became a spatial research on how a void as an absence of a unit could become not a simple void space but could become a public terrace.

The Public Plaza

The Meadow

Communal Activity The Forest The Boat House

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Occupying the Urban Canopy

Joshua Cruz

Lifted high above the cityscape, this housing development emphasizes an individual’s access to light and views. A heavy plinth resting on three slim vertical cores, the height elevates all the apartment units above the roof of the adjacent buildings, allowing each unit to have access to views out to the city and to the neighboring Prospect park. Below on the ground floor, there is an expansive public space for retail, gathering, and other communal activities.

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Scales of Access

Kaitlin Gerson + Hayley Yeager

Unit aggregation that increases laterally as the occupant rises vertically is intended to maximize the number of units that have optimal views of Prospect Park. A twenty by twenty by twenty foot module either stands alone or paired with a second to create either a studio, one-bedroom, or two-bedroom unit. The ground-level commercial space takes advantage of the portion of the building that reaches Flatbush Ave, the alleyways that connect the site with the street, and the adjacent supermarket as passages of access. A transparent faรงade takes advantage of views to the exterior while a mesh second faรงade offers a level of privacy to the occupant.

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bedroom living kitchen bathroom

STUDIO MAPPING + SITE ANALYSIS

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SECTION: SECTION: 1/16” 1/16” == 1’-0” 1’-0”

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FIRST FLOOR: 1/16” = 1’-0”

FIRST FIRST FLOOR: FLOOR: 1/16” 1/16” == 1’-0” 1’-0”

MAPPING + SITE ANALYSIS

MAPPING PPING ++ SITE SITE ANALYSIS ANALYSIS

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12311 - bedroom - bedroom 422 - living - living 33 - kitchen - kitchen 44 - bathroom - bathroom

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RENDERS RENDERS

bedroom living kitchen bathroom

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RENDERS

[Earth |Sky]ward

Saman Zomorodi + Michael Sions

Restaurant Space Parking Garage

Commercial Space

638 sq ft 638 sq ft 638 sq ft 638 sq ft

638 sq ft

588 sq ft

683 sq ft

683 sq ft

683 sq ft

683 sq ft

Elevators

683 sq ft

814 sq ft

745 sq ft

527 sq ft

478 sq ft 0 ft

478 sq ft

Double-Height Townhouse

Skip-Stop Units

Single-Height Studios

Corner Units

478 sq ft

32 ft

160 ft

Urban Farming Adede Amenyah + Sonad Uygur+ Xavier Scipio Flatbush Farms is a proposal for a new way of dwelling in Brooklyn, New York, whereby the function of farming is hybridized with the function of living to create a housing block that buzzes with activity at all times, as it strives for self-sufficiency.

With a major rail line running on the West end of the site, we proposed a vertical hydroponic farm that will generate industrial levels of produce for sale to its residents and beyond.

626 Flatbush Ave. Brooklyn, NY

Plumbing Logic

SHOWER

2 GALLONS/min BATH TUB

PRECIPITATION 4.85” ~ 54,308 GALLONS

36 GALLONS

50% GREY WATER

CISTERN

LAUNDRY

25 GALLONS 80-100 GALLONS/day

TOILET FLUSH

3 GALLONS COOKING

2.2 GALLONS/min

GREY WATER FILTER

HYDROPONIC FARM

PRECIPITATION 4.85” ~ 54,308 GALLONS

HARVESTED PRODUCE

COMPOST

80-100 GALLONS/day

PRODUCE SOLD LOCALLY

50% TREATED WATER

GREY WATER FILTRATION

Systems Axon

MS

H

6

62 T EA

H

ES

FR

US TB A L

R FA

F

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EAT

CULTIVATING

Collection & Composting System

80-100 GALLONS used/day ~ 2400 gallons/month

1200 GALLONS + 54,308 GALLONS from rain

GROCERY STORE

Leftovers

HARVESTED PRODUCE

50% GREY WATER

WASTE FOOD

2066 lbs/day

+ FERTILIZER

COMPOST

13,700 GALLONS/YEAR

Soho, Manhattan

325 West Broadway, Manhattan, New York

Cana

Culture

l St

Demographics

PROGRAM

a Can

Zoning Climate

1644

First Settlement

l St

Cana

dway Broa

1800

Path through the Marshland

l St

Cana

dway Broa

1811

Grid Imposed

l St

Cana

dway Broa

Tribeca

Neighborhood

1900-1960

Industry-Death of Mixed-Use

l St

Cana

Greenwich Village Neighborhood

SoHo

dway Broa

District

1970 Planners Versus Pioneers

MASSING

l St

Scaling

Greenwich Village Neighborhood

SoHo

Neighborhood ay adw

Bro

Nolita

Neighborhood

Little Italy

Neighborhood

Houston St

Prince St

Spring St

Broom St

Grand St

Howard St

Canal St

Retail

Gallery

Cafe and Restaurant

Office

Broadway West Elevation Culture Demographics

PROGRAM

Scaling MASSING

Climate

l St

a Can

Zoning

Area: 0.441 square miles

SoHo

Population: 13,611

SoHo

Neighborhood

District

ay adw

Bro

Population Density:

30,835 ppl/mile^2 (SoHo)

26,403 ppl/mile^2 (NY)

Median Household Income:

$ 87,296 (SoHo) $ 50,033 (NY)

Average Household Size:

1.7 people (SoHo) 2.6 people (NY)

Average Family Size:

2.6 members (SoHo) 3.3 members (NY)

$20,000

$70,000 Min

$120,000

$170,000

$220,000 Max

Household Income Distribution

Park 99 Jane St

Georgetown Plaza E 8th St

Arcade & Plaza W Houston St

Georgetown Plaza E 8th St

Arcade & Plaza W Houston St

ark 9 Jane St

Culture Demographics Zoning

PROGRAM

Scaling MASSING

Climate

Salomon Smith Barney Arcade & Plaza W Houston St Public Plaza

Georgetown Plaza E 8th St

SoHo

SoHo Salomon Smith Barney Public Plaza

Culture

Tribeca Tower SoHo

n Smith Barney aza

Demographics

Park 99 Jane St

Zoning Climate

MASS

Residential Plaza

Tribeca Tower Residential Plaza

Tribeca Tower

Residential One Liberty Plaza Plaza

J.P. Morgan Covered Pedestrian Space

y Plaza

J.P. Morgan Covered PedestrianUrban Space Plaza

Urban Plaza

Outdoor Public Exhibition Public Space

Space

Salomon Smith Barney Public Plaza

Destination

Georgetown Plaza E 8th St

Arcade & Plaza W Houston St

Public Exhibition Space

PROGRAM

Scaling

Destination SoHo

Neighborhood Tribeca Tower Residential Plaza

Outdoor Public Space

Destination

Neighborhood

Hiatus, Circulation, Marginal Neighborhood One Liberty Plaza

One Liberty Plaza

J.P. Morgan Covered Pedestrian Space

Urban Plaza

Public Exhibition Space

J.P. Morgan

Outdoor Public Space

Privately

Hiatus, Circulation, Margin

Owned Public Spac Privately OwnedPrivately Public HiatSpace us, Circulation, Margin

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

           











   

 

   

       



           

   



 



  





       

       











    







 







    







   



    









  















  











   



   

   

  





















   

  

 

       

 

                 

      



  



 

  

  

     

       

 













 



 







 







       

  





 



















 



       

     



       

       

 





 















 









  













 







 















   



 



 



   

 















 

   

             







 



















 





 









 





 













 





  

 



       

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   

  

           

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  

     

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  

 

       

 

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  

 

 

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     

                  

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        

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

 

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    

  

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



  





  









  

      







 

 







 



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 

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



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



  

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





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

 

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             

  

  

       

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Introverted/Extroverted

Katherine Lai + Ephraim Chaney

This project examines the relationship and gradient from the public realm to the private dwelling. It seeks to construct a space where a resident’s access to light, personal outdoor space, public indoor and outdoor spaces, and places of activity guided the design process.

To achieve this goal, a modular system was developed, with a base module of 9’x9’x10’ that would allow a diverse yet manageable form of aggregation and configurable spaces. These modules could be put together in groups of five to six for residential units or as few as one or two for workshops and storage units that would serve as the functioning core of an active program. A void space can serve as a unit or units by providing a balcony for a residential unit or a large void as public spaces for performing, exhibitions, etc. These units are aggregated with public spaces at each street entrance, circulating to three vertical cores that rise into an increasingly dense network of units. The residential space then surrounds the public space and semi-public workshops and forms a 9-story construction that gives SoHo a hybrid building serving specific functions for its residents and for the public.

Plinth Marking Entrance to Unit

Partition Allowing for Privacy Sleeping Area Living Area

Bathroom

Bedroom

Bathroom

Living Area

Entrance

Ambiguous Fluids

Cheryl Xu Lu

This project explores the implications of curvilinear form on program.

Treating the program ( live, work, play, retail) as different fluids, these elements mix and combine in unique arrangements to create interactions between the programs that re-imagine the way people live in shared housing. The curving shell of the facade follows these programs, reinforcing the fluid, dynamic nature of the interior function.

Fluids of Activies

Domestic Activity

Communal + Domestic

Creative+ Domestic

Recreational+ Domestic

Interaction between Fluids Communal Activity

Creative Activity

Communal + Creative

Recreational Activity

Communal + Recreational

Communal + Creative +Recreational

Creative+ Recreational

Domestic + Communal + Creative +Recreational

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Systems Axon

MAPPING + SITE ANALYSIS

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PRECEDENTS

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DIAGRAMS

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UNITS

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PLANS

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SECTIONS

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RENDERS