04. NYc_SE

The New York Stock Exchange

ARCH 703 | Coord, Ali Rahim | Fall 21 Location: New York. NY

This project speculates that a new typology can help sustain New York City’s global financial leadership in the world. New York cannot solely rely on import and export economies with the uncertainty of political pressures that affect the prices of goods and services. New York and other cities need to reinvent existing networks to be able to compete with trade barriers that are cumbersome and willfully destroy the growth of the global economy while having ramifications on New York City. New York City needs to raise capital as the Federal and State Governments have not helped New York’s finances in any way. If New York City mines Non-Fungible Tokens (NFT’s) that are pegged to Real Estate value in the city, residents and visitors alike can invest in the City’s future. Non-fungible tokens are a unit of data stored on a digital ledger, called a blockchain, that certifies a digital asset to be unique and therefore not interchangeable. This methodology of the project focuses on testing the limits and boundaries between programs to measure the spaces’ quality and performance. The two main spaces I focus on are data storage and museum/ galley spaces. By analyzing and examining patterns and five molding types, I am able to assemble a sequence of motion, sets of information that inform my proposal. Each of the five moldings has a specific function -from being the main structure of the building to window mullions. Focusing on the interior of the building, the transition space between the data storage and museum is created to give users access and a chance to explore and interact with the data they use and benefit from every day. Also, by analyzing the data storage spaces. The contrastive concept creates the massing and building facade based on the program and the use of the spaces. For example, the facade of the data storage has no opening, while the museum has more openings.

Data Center + Hotel

ARCH 507 | Instr, Edgar Stach | Fall 20

Location: Philadelphia. PA

Published in CAPE_SPACE WORK 08

The project prepares mature aesthetics and knowledge of time and era, penetrates the unknown, and discovers the words. Using generators and algorithms, the given image of the city has become a new form of psychedelic and abstract art. “Light creates ambiance, and feel of a place as well as the expression of a structure” Le Corbusier. The knowledge in the aesthetic contrast with the mystical suggestion of the systems. It focuses on spaces and ideas as forms of façade expression. The building façade becomes a symphony that shows the building’s systems that humans use and benefit from every day. The building’s aesthetics may not relate to its surroundings because it aims to make moments and spaces that give the users environmental and untraditional experiences. The design establishes public and private slipping with small and large circulation allowing many alternative areas for working or collaboration. The building systems, society, and space program research analyses how built spaces affect users interacting with them and, conversely, aesthetics and technology can affect users. It was not planned as a single building but designed as if it was a city. This is achieved by incorporating a range of urban functions, including a data center, a department store, an art museum, offices, a hotel, and an observatory. By looking at the building system in its façade, it becomes part of users’ life, not a mere building, bringing a new dynamism to Philadelphia.