African American Cultural Center Harlem, New York, U.S.A. 2004 Quilian Riano Portfolio
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Project Designer, Team Leader: Quilian Riano
Physical Model Production: Digital Production: Kar Ho Quilian Riano Coral Brandt Jen Daniels Tinh Le Linda Daniels Eva Pinero Stany Iordanova Renee Webley Ryan Wicks Cathy Le
DIAGRAM CIRCULATION SYSTEM
URBAN CONCEPT The layout of building as MASS and street as VOID breaks the space into horizontal pieces, analyzing these pieces as potential vertical layering of masses. This allows us to fold different scales and programmatic pieces together. Then these
blocks are stretched to fit the proportions of the site and become the beginning of program elements.
Formation and marking of the building to capture space begins as a gesture of FOLDING the streets up onto the surface. Movement shifts scales as the streets become the circulation of the building. This movement shifts between
the perceived interior and exterior spaces,
STACKING VOLUMES
activating the skin of the building.
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+ STACKING VOLUMES
= CIRCULATION SYSTEM
FOLD + STREET SCALE CONTEXT
Fold within the local context, at 125th Street and 7th Ave, responds to the scale of the human, allowing the surface of the fold to open and reveal estab-
lishing an interaction between person and building.
FOLD + LARGE SCALE CONTEXT
Surrounded by other zones of varying sizes and densities, Harlem has a responsibility to INTERACT within and throughout its large-scale context. The fold becomes a gesture of how the city functions and becomes an urban response to the event that is New York City.
FOLD + CULTURAL CONTEXT
Harlem’s intense culture is constantly moving- identity in specific periods of time. Prominent figures, events, and the spaces they occupy become the method to determine location, place, and time. Representations and form of the building become symbolic of the MOVEMENT of Harlem society. The form, charged by the program of the building,
creating a marker for the contemporary African American and his or her culture.
URBAN FOLD
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Gallery
(on top of the preserved section of
Plan Key:
the Teresa Hotel)
1-Underground
Eating Area-Gift Shop
2-Ground Floor
5
Lobby- Lounge-Computer Room
3-Second Floor
4
Theater-Education
4-Fifth Floor
Library-Education
5-Eigth Floor
3
Music Academy-Lounge
2 1
Outdoor Circulation System (IN GREEN)
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Perspective-Ground Floor
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