FILTERED CORROSION - GSAPP SP21 - STUDIO ROTHSTEIN
FILTERED CORROSION The school of the past is eroded with varying intensities as formal gestures infiltrate multiple space typologies to enhance discoveries through interconnected views. With this, there is a removal of the agents, which divide the disciplines, to yield a more intense level of curiosity and engagement. Transparent voids open the building, forming a fluid connection across pedagogical types. This increased level of formal engagement and reduction of barriers stimulates curiosities by creating a desire to learn in a provocative environment which negates uniformity and the connotations of a classroom as a cell. Classrooms are comprised of moving pieces that can be engaged with as they increase the building’s temporality. Daily deposits of studentproduced works and small-scale performance pieces are aggregated into basins where building users can observe new additions in this everchanging gallerylike exhibition space. In the summer, the facility can be used as a display for emerging forms of knowledge. Basins and movable classroom partitions become repurposed for local NYC innovators and creatives to exhibit their works and research in this multidisciplinary workspace for the community to view and discover. Dynamic spaces produce a variety of uses as a result of the novel forms which act as the primary catalyst to facilitate interactions between the student body, social body, and opportunities for greater discoveries. Curiosities of students, faculty, and locals are stimulated and answers to rising questions are pursued.
EMMA SUMROW