HUDSON TEXTILE RESEARCH TOWER

This is my design for a Textile Arts Research Tower in the Hudson neighborhood of New York. The program provides public gallery spaces, workshop spaces, and residence space for two artists. In the physical section model the different programs are commu nicated through the floor colors. Light pink for the most public spaces; galleries, dark pink for the workshop spaces that connect the artist with the public, and orange for the purely private living spaces.

The overall form comes from wanting to instill a sense of move ment, or rather contrapposto, the moment before movement, to the project with every element. The floor plates twist like verte brae as they ascend to let the outdoor living spaces face the Hudson River. The interior forms allow light and visual connection between the floors and imply a container of light falling through the building as the floor plates pull away.