DIGITAL ASSETS [DRAWING, RENDER, DIAGRAM]
render [night], render [day], section, diagram01, diagram02, sitediagram01, sitediagram02
[SUSPENSION]
CRITIC[s]: MARIA VRDOLJAK
SPRING 2020
645 st nicholas ave, new york, ny 10030
The tower in the twentieth century has its own rich history within the context of North America. The typology developed in tandem with the elevator as a tool for New York’s Culture of Congestion and finite geography. The byproduct is an architectural world of worlds, a single structure capable of containing a vast array of individually different activities, bound together by a singular elevator. The skyscraper could be conceived of as a microcosm for the city at large, an archipleago of island-buildings within the vast sea-like grid.
The problem for the studio was to propose a tower situated in Manhattan for a film institute. An expansion to an existing education institution, the Harlem School of the Arts, the problem was devoted to the conceptualization of innovative vertical structure and circulation within the sectional building type. The Film School + Center is a two-population problem, the public or those who will be viewing the content, and the institution users / workers - the makers or se- lectors of the content. Guests will view content in closed rooms for collective viewing of various scales with a central shared screen.