DIGESTING NEW YORK

PRESENTATION COLUMBIA SYMPOSIUM, NEW YORK, APRIL 07

Video

Slides

26.03
CityWalk
Central Park

Midtown

27.03
Visiting Frank Stella Studio

THE SITE

The choosen Site in Midtown Manhattan on 6th Avenue (W57THST,W56THST)

System Speculation
Creating a system, which reconfigures the existing space on the site and with the same rules, adds new spacial volumes. A high mixture of different occupations provides a safe environment without the need of an authoritarian controlling system.

Visualisation (Speculation! Not an achievement according to the real building proposal, more a quick visual translation)

Algorithmic extraction

SETTING THE RULES (Stage 2)

IMPLIED SPACIAL LIBRARY

Physical borders and boundaries

Overlayered Lightening-Level defines areas in terms of safety

View with the light

View against the light

Parallel to analysis, research on artificial intelligence in games

Analysis in terms of safety- borders and boundaries

GENERATIVE BORDERS (January Jury)

First FarCry Project



Triggered Boundaries 1


Triggered Boundaries 2

SETTING UP THE RULES (STAGE 1)

RECONFIGURATION

Modeling the Seagram Building

Initial abstraction and examination of physical and mental transitions within borders and boundaries.