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DISENGAGING DYSTOPIA

LATERALUS

The housing typology is a live/work housing for musicians, so the music rooms are designed in irregular shapes to minimize reflections.

Some music rooms have walls and roofs coming in and out to help improve acoustics.The facade of the project is based on many different proportional systems, such as the Fibonacci series, the AABBAA, ABAB so on and so forth. All the units are

different from each other, because there are no two people who are the same.This hopes to increase socializing in the building, because people would be more interested in seeing each other’s spaces. Social condensers fail because you cannot force people to be in a place together.

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TOP: Model Photo

That is why made my social spaces next to kitchens and music rooms, because food and music is a majors ocial attractor. They are also in places with the maximum amount of light and they cross circulations in corridors.

The double loaded corridor is zigzag and not straight, so that the occupant is continuously turning and can “randomly” run into people, and brainstorm ideas off of one another. The voids in the roof and floor plates help with lighting up the corridor and ventilating through the entire building.

The ground floor consists of an open performance space, where musicians can hold performances on a large scale, and also have scattered glass boxes where people

can come in from the street and practice their music, either privately or in a group of few people.

PROJECT : WHO?ME?

Narration

Many years ago in China during the Chinese Civil war, there was a man who lived in Canton. His name was the Hero. The fire of the political upheaval spread ferociously. The Hero had to bring his family to America. He left his riches behind. In one night, our hero became a zero. Sorry,my mistake. He didn’t become a zero, he’s the hero. He worked in a wood mill. He worked hard. Started his own kitchen supply business, built a beautiful house. Next came his son, the new hero, worked hard too, grew the business, got a job, educated his children well, made the old house bigger, and then came his son. Now this is our hero. He tried management, engineering, office work, say yes, look down, be happy. One day many miles away, between the heart and world our hero found a companion.tem ratet que laut quam rempore coremodian.

Our hero said (in robotic voice)

How are you?

The companion asked:

Why are you talking like this?

How?

You sound like a machine

Meaning?

Wait. Where are you going?

I cannot stop. If I stop, I will die

Die?

I am running a race

What race do you run?

I don't know

You don't know, so why are you running?

Everyone is running. So that's why I am running Why is everyone running? Does no one stop to ask? Why? What's that?

Why? Our very own "Why?" You don't know why You seem to have dialed the wrong number, Forget it. What's the difference which race it is as long as you're winning. I'm sure you always win. Come second?

Third?

Fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth? Ninth?

You seemed to have dialed the wrong number. Train no. 721... Stop. Forget password. Insurance is a subject matter of solicita-

tion. Please read the offer document carefully before investing. You're somewhere in the middle. The middle-man Yes, I'm mediocre

You're so proud to be mediocre. Can I say something? I don't think you're ordinary. When I'm with you I feel special. Then imagine how special you are. Sorry, wrong number. What? Did no one tell you?

That reminds the hero of something He says:

There was someone who said I was special That's right, who was it?

He was a snake A snake?

Yes! He talked rot. You're full of wonder! A mine of diamonds. Damn imposter, Know his name?

His name was... Childhood. My childhood Childhood? Meaning? Are you mad? Childhood was a poisonous snake. Slithering in the garden

Hiding behind bushes, hood raised, ready to strike. Destroyed him when I grew up

Crushed him underfoot. I put my foot on his damn neck and pressed hard

Destroyed. Now it's ok. Now no one says I am special

I can live my life comfortably now. Walk, stop, smile please, mediocre...

Nonsense! A mistake. Choose your race. Then see if you come first or not. You'll come first Guaranteed. Stop! I cannot stop

Look at yourself. Know who you are. Open your eyes

THE GRID; THE STATUS QUO

I won’t open my eyes, I won’t stop, I’ll keep running the race. I’ll keep running, I’ll stay mediocre. Average. Work, stop, smile please.

ISLANDS UNDER THE STARS

The task assigned to us in this semester was to add a bathhouse extension, next to the Jackie Robinson pool in Harlem, which would not be seasonal and can be used all year around by the community. We were also given the freedom to add in one program of our own choice in the bath-house and another satellite across the park which can be used by the neighbouring community. The program I chose was an observatory, and hence, my entire bath-house was built around the observatory and was about views of the sky and constantly looking up.

The task assigned to us in this semester was to add a bath-house extension, next to the Jackie Robinson pool in Harlem, which would not be seasonal and can be used all year around by the community. We were also given the freedom to add in one program of our own choice in the bath-house and another satellite across the park which can be used by the neighbouring community. The program I chose was an observatory, and hence, my entire bath-house was built around the observatory and was about views of the sky and constantly looking up.

As you might have taken a hint from the name, each program has been completely isolated from one another, creating a clear distinction between solid and void, volume and circulation. It still continues to follow the basic nuances of a bath-house and how you can only access the pool after going through a check in the reception and using the showers thereafter. As you can see in the reflection pool and sauna, attempts have been made to direct people towards the existing vegetation before walking in a room, essentially working as a decoy show and reveal system.

The roof and the programs have been placed in such a way that none of the existing vegetation on the site has to be removed.Due to the high variation in topography, the roof acts as a direct access entry point from Edgecomb, activating it complete. The idea of the openings in the roof also was that in the day the building can take in the light from the environment and at night the building can give back light to the environment through these openings. The entrance to the bath-house remains between and under the large staircase which Bradhurst Avenue to the roof and Edgecomb Avenue.

PHANTOM OF INTEGRATION

For this project, we were asked to create an addition of a movie theatre to an existing library. We had to keep in mind the structure, program and circulation requirements. We were also asked to make a facade and have an integration and connection of the new addition to the existing library. It consists of a suspension system structure where programs can be slotted in according to the changing requirements of the library.

SHIFTING: THE REALM

TThe premise of this project is to explore Collaborative Automation for the Construction of Higher Density Housing in NYC. Specifically, we aim to identify potential benefits within the production process that can be unlocked to make higher-quality housing more accessible and affordable. The approach involved using Omniverse to develop a series of design options.

This studio was in collaboration with omniverse and NVIDIA, where we worked with seperate teams to have a real time idea of what was being designed and constructed on site.