Ishika ISHIKA JAIN Jain
Far Rockways Community Center in partnership with Ritika Parikh Most recently, Hurricane Sandy has made the community on the site well aware of both their vulnerability to crises and the social and economic need for resiliency. The prompt of a community center, with the feature of production of food and a food market would address many issues on the site. At its core, the project centers around volumes of green vegetation, the artificial water stream, and different culinary experiences which get converted to single family shelters, communal co-living shelters and metal health service program rooms in case of emergency.
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Ground level floor plan
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Second level floor plan and MEP plan
ADA compliant single fluid space for flood prevention Spread over one single fluid space of 10,000 sq metres, it provides a seamless network of services, kitchens, information gathering, social spaces, restaurants, cafes and beautiful outdoor spaces. It is a highly innovative building, with gentle slopes and terraces, undulating around a series of internal ‘patios’, with almost invisible supports for its complex curving roof, lifting the regions above from Design flood elevation to be cconverted to an emergency food shelter.
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Building section highlighting the spaces above D.F.E
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Section detail
Unobstructed space in its artificial geography This community shelter gradually invites the public into this space to experience the different dining experiences through the undulating form, mimicing the waves. There is an integrated system to drain the rain water inside the tree-like columns.
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Community center
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Flood Shelter
Emergency zone separated by the changes in height The separation between the different functions of community shelter and the emergency shelter is based on the manipulation of the horizontal plane, lifting it or subtly reducing its height with undulations that delimit the different areas, emphasizing the sensation of openness and transparency without interrupting the spatial continuity and free-flowing relationship with the landscape. In this way, the convertable zones are grouped together and separated from the rest by changes in height.
Haverstraw Bat Tower This Brick modules suggests an architecture that re-balances the bat population within the urban ecology, while simultaneously lowering the albedo of the buildings’ contribution to the Urban Heat island. The BAT Tower is sited and designed to attract and facilitate bat inhabitation. Located adjacent to a pond, the site boasts an abundance of mosquitoes and other bat-attracting insects. Chives, oregano and other bat-attracting herbs are planted within the base of the tower. A pattern of grooves on both vertical and horizontal surfaces allows bats to more easily climb into the tower and cling to its ‘ceilings.
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Corbelled boardwalk detail
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Stair boardwalk detail
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Wall assembly detail
To help facilitate entry, the project’s ribbed construction includes a series of ‘landing pads’ near the top of the tower. To provide a suitably warm interior for bat roosting, dark wood panels cover the top of the tower which has been designed to encourage bat habitation.
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Exhibition shot
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Physical wall construction
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Clay printing brick shot
The Bat Tower uses new prototypes for porous brick construction with new procedures of CNC robotic fabrication, inclusive of large-scale additive 3D printing.
Bed-Stuy Co-living Housing in partnership with Ritika Parikh The housing project houses 200 residents and gives them an adaptive way for a hybrid building type: a live-work multiunit dwelling that is home, office, and a recreational center. The micro-apartments have different layouts on each floor, and come in three different sizes – 150, 200 and 400 square ft.
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Flora exploration detail
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Oak tree render inside the void
How we live creates a “Third Place”
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Sectional Detail
The “first place” for private respite; the “second place” for economic engagement; and the “third place,” is more of a recreational area. Life inside the walls of this building is a walk in the park. The Oak tree planted inside brings the ecology closer to people. Stone paving and benches give the feeling of being outdoors said the studio. The green atrium is lined with a workspace, hidden storage and shared amenities such as a workroom and a pet garden, providing flexible ground for impromptu meetings or community events.
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Individual Unit Cluster Plan
Unit numbers tucked against concrete folds in the corridor »
Ground Floor Plan Level, Floor Plan Level 2-6, Roof Plan
They serve to melt indicators of private space into the collective. Community is not forced but coaxed: each unit is designed for a single person with private bath and kitchenette. Details such as built-in modular storage and magnetic wall-paint have been designed to make personalisation of the spaces.
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Elevation
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Section
Undulating Balconies forms a visual dialogue The undulating balconies deviate the wind currents, and it also helps form a visual dialogue between the floor-to-floor users. It also avoids the collision of the non-human species - migratory birds - from the buiilding. Windows on the south facade help to create a stack effect to ventilate the central atrium, releasing any pent up hot air and drawing wind into the roof garden.
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Elevation
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Elevation
Cinema extension to Hunter College Inspired by films and cinema, this proposal focuses on framing and tracking the human eye as a way to create the spaces and moments in the architecture. The idea of a cinema as being a world in which we, as occupants, not only attend to watch the final result: the movie, but also experience the different stages of production such as the editing, filming and design of these story-telling pieces. Overlooking and interaction between programs is what truly creates the essence of the building, from the inside and outside. While adapting the views of the city, outdoor spaces are programmed as well consisting of open theaters with the intent of framing and incorporating the New Yorker experience.
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Sectional perspective
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Sectional perspective