CONSTRUCTED VOID

Hacker Lab | NYC, USA | Lucia Phinney | Fall 2022

Constructed Void interchanges a series of masses and planes in an open-air atmosphere in order to create a series of informal settlements. Below the horizon, the subway is introduced to the ground plane by means of a slanted subtraction. This engagement creates programs of interaction such as a cafe. Meanwhile, the above ground areas inhabit the voids implied between floorplanes and the interiors of building blocks. The open-air floorplanes host programs of movement and interaction while the intraverted building blocks host individual programs. Connecting these all together, semi-enclosed circulatory volumes are sewn throughout the building.

These concepts were introduced by a personal interest in El Lissitzky’s Prouns - which represents the West Village well both formally in plan and abstractly in their cohesive and modern individualism. Like the Proun, this project studies implied volumes through spatial relationships.

Enclosed massing for private programs

Open floorplates for interactive programs

Circulatory tubes

FINAL MODEL & FORM EXPLORING PROUNS

EXPLODED AXON