ARC3101 Magazine

Andy Chen

Design

Cornell Architecture ARC3101

Cohousing

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Siheyuan & Hutong Typology Precedent Analysis

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Row House E Precedent Extrapolation

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Buffalo Site Mappings Site Analysis

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Buffalo Center for Design Cohousing Project

四合院 Siheyuan & Hutong Typology

Precedent Analysis Traditional Chinese Courtyard House & Alleyway In Collaboration with Iris Hong 4

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Row House E

Precedent Extrapolation Fujian Tulou Housing + Siheyuan & Hutong 14

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Buffalo Site Mappings

Site Research & Analysis 22,000 sqft. Site on Main St. Inbetween Best St. and Dodge St. 20

Introduction By: Samuel Coons

How can architecture work to confront the fractured landscapes of the Post-Industrial City? Histories of modernity coinciding with decades of political and technological upheaval saw architecture become aligned as a tool of economic disenfranchisement and discrimination, rewritting the city along racial lines while activating the flight of industry to the suburbs.

Such an alignment is visible today, with architecture serving as the tool by which gentrification operates to rewrite low-income communities along stark divides of race and class.

In light of this legacy, a historically-conscious architecture is more important than ever in constructing landscapes that seek to heal the wounds of the fractured city. Of utmost significance are a careful eye towards the way that community operates in physical space, an open mind towards how stakeholders can be defined widely and participation activated broadly, and a steady hand towards designing spaces that do not seek to socially engineer its inhabitants to meet projections of intended use. In sum: towards an architecture that allows opportunity for communities to flourish, rather than one that seeks to mold communities in its own image.

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Buffalo Center for Design

Cohousing Project Acting as an Incubator for the Arts, providing Main St. a new living and working space.

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Buffalo: District of The Arts

Buffalo Center for Design.

Buffalo Center for Arts and Technology.

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Massing Puzzle Excercise

Series of modular building blocks were created and arranged together to study different relationships of program for cohousing. Varied adjacencies and voids create different hierarchies of private, shared, and public space.

Initial site plan and perspective collages reveal how the resulting autonomous puzzle massing model might situate itself in the urban fabric of Main Street. The rectilinear courtyard block became the scheme moving forwards.

However, the model stood too monumental and was not conducive to a cohousing project which would need a more inviting facade.

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Plan Excercises Planar experiments - layering additional systems of structure and enclosure onto the scheme derived from the Puzzle.

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Key Sketches The project’s driver transitioned from Courtyard to Subtractions.

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Precedents Poly Grand Theater - Tadao Ando, 2014 Shanghai, China Cargill Pool Grain Elevator - C.D. Howe, 1925 Buffalo, NY Piazza della Signoria - 1330 Florence, Italy

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Form Development:

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Buffalo Aerial View Along Main St. sits the proposed Buffalo Center for Design along with the Buffalo Center for Arts and Technology at the bottom right corner. Additional select vacant lots in the emerging Arts District also feature larger scale architecture intervention.

Downtown and Silo City can be seen in the distance before the waterfront.

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Street View Intersection of Main St. and Best St.

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View into Studio Space from Cafe

Upper Residential Shared Space 43

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Additional Site Interventions

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Eight vacant lots and parking lots near the Buffalo Center for Design in the speculative Arts District master plan were selected for additional housing, office, gallery, and work space developments.

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Buffalo Center for Design Parners:

Buffalo Center for Design Products:

Studio Silos Main production product of the Design Center whose creation is led by a resident fellow. These silos utilize repitition to create a new Buffalo-specific typology that unifies its spatial language.

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Additional Projects:

Murals & Street Painting

Parklets Similar to the goal of the Studio Silos, these smaller scale projects add a pedestrian scale to Main St.

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