world college city @ rockaway
Chapter 1: Executive Summary
Visiting Schools as a Modern Learning Experience
City, Infrastructure and Site
New form of Miniature City Envisioning a New Satellite University Town
In the new era of learning in senior institutions, exchange programs and visiting schools are prevalent to allow students to explore and expose to different cultures, thinking through living and learning in an alien city or places. These programs often require a physical space, aka, learning centers and venues through renting, for instance, in the field of architecture school, Columbia GSAPP's Studio-X in places around the world. In the reverse, New York City itself is a popular destination and laboratory for foreign schools for the abovementioned programs, where AA Visiting School New York rents venues in Long Island City while Cornell Architecture Program owns a learning center within the financial district.
Different foreign institutions occupy fragments of physical spaces in New York City possibly due to the expensive rental and land prices in the city while relying on the city's existing infrastructure and facilities such as local universities. This generates inefficiency in the usage of resources of the cities and meanwhile the inefficiency of the potential, energy brought about by the visiting students by their physical dislocation.
Inspired by the typology of University Town, where different universities benefits through sharing resources while a small sustainable city could be created through its supply and demand of students, commercial activities and its corresponding growth and expansion. We anticipate a new type of University Town which could evolve at the crossroads of education, local neighborhood and as an extension of transit hub.
For our site at Arverne East, it is at the intersection of two axes - the axis of transport, which it endows the site an extreme closeness to the JFK Airport and its efficient connection to the New York City, and the axis of local physical Island, Rockaway, a linear strip of existing residential neighborhood backed by Jamaica Bay and facing the ocean. The complexity of the design is to implant the new education program in the complex site balancing the forces to interweave and contribute to the cities through their synergy at play.
Providing a global satellite university town for a variety of different visiting schools, in the scale of individual buildings or even floors could allow sharing resources in focus. Secondly, in the miniature city its commercial program not only satisfy the consumption of incoming students but further complement the needs and provide new sensations of international commuters, a more humanistic group form in Rem's vision of Bigness at future airports. Finally and most importantly, new public spaces, activities and facilities could provide immense opportunities and contribute to the neighborhood.
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Chapter 2: University and Building Purpose and Program
visiting school poster
trend of visiting school and exchange program
conceptual zoning strategies
existing school facilities research
case studies
case studies on site
Chapter 3: Transportation System and Key Drivers
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transportation
Chapter 4: Water Systems and Key Drivers
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Chapter 5: Energy System and Key Drivers
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Chapter 6: Other Urban System and Key Drivers
universities and colleges
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Education Level Distribution
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Open Space
Food Supply Diagram
Rental Price Distribution
Chapter 7: Site Framework and Systems
Chapter 8: Building Concept
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Chapter 9: Summary
The Form of Visiting Schools as a Modern Learning Experience
To rethink transportation Network City, Infrastructure and Site
Reinvent Shophouses Clusters Typology as a Miniature City for satellite university town
After months of study and investigation on the site, which possesses a distinct constrast with the central New York City in terms of physical, social, economical environemnt. The design through form is heavily shaped and influenced by the urban studies carried out. On the extremely beautiful and fragile site, we arrive at a design strategy where intense sharing and neighbourhood could be nurtured in sharp contrast with existing university campuses in New York City especially Manhattan.
The transportation system, movement of people, car, ciculation has been the main focus of our urban studies and design strategy. The heavy reliance of subway to the central part of the city inspires us to rethink a possibility of an alternate transportation related to water, for instance, ferry. The transportation in a large scale could rejuvenate the neighbourhood. Within the site, we overlay different transportation systems, car, bike, boulevard, paths to accomodate hierarchy of circulation to facilitate sharing. Concentrating building footprints on the center flanked by two large area of open spaces allow compactness and maintain high activity level to cultivate interaction. Energy and water are also carefully considered thanks to the emergency condition of site situated in the floodplan.
In the second half of the design process, we concentrate on the dormitory zones of the masterplan in order to elucidate the idea of the larger urban idea in masterplan. Throughout the design development, a new shophouse typology is arrived that commercial activities would happen on the ground floor with grouping of back of house areas on alternative roads located on masterplan to define hierarchy of circulation, efficiency and comfort. Apart from the direct vertical circulation, a gradient of privacy at second-floor and thirdfloor dormitories is registered through roomcorridor-shared facilities-balcony-stairs-courtyard to mediate the public and private realm in daily life, to promote and shape more encounters between students from diverse background.
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