Studio 4 Final

Day Rendering

 Circulation Diagram

Units:

Loft

Live/work

Studio

Night Rendering

Subtly

Exercise 1: Embodied Furniture to the Human Scale

Making a body-scale piece of furniture.

Materials: Corrugated Cardboard

String

Glue & Tape

Drawings of modifications to accommodate:

-Storing, Sitting, Eating, Working, Reading, Sleeping, Writing, Meeting, Lounging, Relaxing.

Exercise 2: Building Around the Body

Creating a unit from the previous exercise, developing the idea of the modularity of the furniture. 

The concept to create this intimacy from ground floor to ceiling is something that I wanted to pursue. Where you do not necessarily need walls in order to create a room. 

Exercise 3: Mutating the Unit

Three different iterations of the unit to accommodate different kinds of users and families. 

Starting by designing one studio unit (around 400 sq ft.) I used this design to as the base to start aggregating it and transforming it to fit within other designs (Live/work & Loft). 

Studio: 

Single/Students

400 sq. ft.

Live/Work Unit:

Couples/Workers

800 sq. ft.

Loft:

Family

1600 sq. ft.

Exploration of Aggregation:

Each unit is then stacked up on top of each other where the one unit is layered top of the other digs into each others unit, working within the landscape of a unit.

Two Bridges: Judy, Rabia, Alex

Timeline Axon showing the history of the buildings within Zone 2. Demographic graphs  on the top right of the paper shows the layout of the people that currently live on the site.

Geography breakdown showing what each building is used for.

Transportation map to show the flow within the site from subway lines, bus's, and bike paths.

Selected sites that we found interesting. Some are just selected pictures while some are photographic elevations of a specific place.

Potential sites that we as a group found to be the most interesting. 

Precedent Study: Nexus World Housing by Judy Kim

"How the Other Half Lives", LES 1907.

 

Photo - Library of Congress