Domino Sugar Refinery Master Plan

Dila Erten & Sara Segura

Architects SHoP Architects, James Corner Field Operations

Location Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York, United States

Client Two Trees Management Co, LLC Program Building Site 310.000 m²

Area Project Description

The plan envisions a new skyline for Brooklyn—one that relates to the height of the Williamsburg bridge to the south and scales down to meet the neighboring building across from a new public space, Domino Square. The new surrounding buildings are porous, featuring large openings that allow light and air to penetrate through the site and into the neighborhood beyond.

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Max Reinhardt House, Peter Eisenman

Peter Eisenman conceived this project shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1991. The site has previously been occupied by the expressionist playhouse of Max Reinhardt. In order to capture Reinhardt’s legendary energy and vision, he devised and multifaceted character of the city.

The thirty-four-story building vertically folds on its core to create a structure that separates, transforms, and rejoins itself horizontally at the roof level. The form was generated by three operations performed on a Möbius strip, a three-dimensional geometric form with a single continuous surface. The building, whose height and creased form create an imposing

Source: MoMA, artists

Mirador, MVRDV

Mirador is a collection of mini neighbourhoods stacked vertically around a semi-public sky-plaza. The building acts as a counterpoint against the massive uniformity of the surrounding housing blocks. It frames the distant landscape of the Guadarrama Mountains through a large “look out” located 40 meters above the ground. This also provides outdoor space and community garden for the occupants of building, monumentalising public life and space.

Source: MVRDV

High Rise City, Ludwig Hilberseimer

along the grid created by routes of transportation. The starkness of the plan and dehumanization of the environment later caused Hilberseimer to remark that it was

The High Rise City was a model completely based on practical aspects. It strongly differentiated from the cities of the past that for Hilberseimer were designed based upon religious and cultural arguments. It was an answer for a man not any more subjective and individual but objective and collective. The communal block replaced the single house. The importance of the collectivity in the block overcomes the individual. His model was conceived for a system with strong central power. Any individual expression is erased by order and rationality.

Source: Ludwig Hilberseimer, Grossstadt Architektur

Morphology

Plan transformation study from MVRDVs Mirador project into Peter Eisenmans Max Reinhardt House.

Section transformation study from Peter Eisenmans Max Reinhardt House into Paris’ Arc de Triomphe.

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Geometrical studies based on the section- and plan transformations of selected precedents.