URBAN WASTELAND

Term // Fall 2020

Professor // Marshall Prado

Programming Architecture //

ADAPTIVE TYPOLOGIES

Covid Center

Automated Retail

Erosion: 40% Erosion: 0% Erosion: 80%

Erosion: 40% Erosion: 0% Erosion: 80%

Erosion: 40% Erosion: 0% Erosion: 80%

41 40 criteria that references both intrinsic, extrinsic, and environmental conditions of the site. The evaluation of encoded quantifiable spatial properties drives the program to situate itself within an area of the site that allows it to become the most performative, in reference to its original set of criteria. Erosion: 40% Erosion: 0% Erosion: 80% Erosion: 40% Erosion: 0% Erosion: 80% intersecting circulation paths exist at points of adjacency among the programs// glass curtain wall systems invite opportunity for the extension of users’ site lines

Porosity

As the Waste Center’s most performative region of the site overlaps with four other programs, the notion of porosity becomes integral to the success of the relationships that exist among them. This, in turn, invites moments for public education and interaction with waste infrastructure.

glass pods form simultaneously interior and exterior rooms that superimpose themselves upon the floating landscape, allowing quarantined patients a connection to the outdoors glass facades of microhotel rooms puncture through the skin of the floating landscape// as individuals ascend towards the roofscape, these spaces become visible, thus oppositely hiding from view during descent

POSITIONING THE FLOATING LANDSCAPE BETWEEN THESE SURGING URBAN TYPOLOGIES

UNDERSTANDING THE IMPLIED TOPOGRAPHY OF THE URBAN ENVIRONMENT

LOCATION OF HIGHEST RANKING VOXELS WITHIN SITE