CITY COLLEGE OF NY
Architectural Design
Various projects
Exploring architectural design across programs
The following are selections of undergraduate architecture studio projects from the City College of NY ranging from 2009-2014. They explore a range of program and conceptual models for thinking about the potential of architecture to respond to context and the people within it.
The Library: from Ruin to Rejuvenation
Today we live in a transitional period where the lines of reality and simulation are blurred. We are embarking on a threshold to a pure digital state. What is the role of the library now that it has lost its power as the primary search tool? The internet has procured possibilities that approach infinity, extending thought beyond our capabilities for comprehension. It is limitless in the scope of the human scale. The Internet provides the infrastructure for serendipitous freedom. Yet, it’s utilization as an immortalizing tool is often undermined. This thesis explored what the role of the library as a social gathering space is in the Age of Information. The site, a ruin on Roosevelt Island, gets rejuvenated over years as the library falls to ruins and reinvents itself.
Spitzer School of Architecture: City College of New York - Professor: Jeremy Edmiston
Lehman Dormitory
This project explores new ways of thinking about social spaces in one of the most social programs – a dormitory. Situated in Lehman College in the Bronx, the design explores how the building can produce both social and private spaces across scales – from the exterior to the interior dorms.
MRKT: Culinary Incubator
The site: a broken rhythm of frozen harmony. It serves as the threshold between the pixelization of townhouses to the south, and the monotone massiveness of the northern civic buildings. The solution; a market/incubation space. The textured nature of these programs allows for a rush of people coming to interact with the site, attracting them further along the Avenue’s journey, and space for culinary masters to practice their art. The building becomes and extension of Atlantic Avenue; a city within a city. The marriage of craft and collaboration fosters innovation; a Brooklyn staple.
Spitzer School of Architecture: City College of NY - Professor: Joan Krevlin
House(s)
The design for this project embodies a conceptual model where two houses are intertwined and nested into each other. The first, a house entirely on the ground floor, and the second, a house where the spaces unfold on the ends of a single winding stair – and lead to the largest space on the top floor. The lower residence has a low ceiling where the stair begins, and grows in height as the second residence ascends.
Manhattanism
Manhattanism was a project submitted to the Anonymous.d competition and was awarded top prize. It examines how the Manhattan’s Broadway can be transformed into a single walkable park that connects the parks that are already along this corridor all the way to Times Square. It attempts to comment on the urban condition of Broadway, and extends the already amplified commerce of Times Square and extend it down this corridor, in juxtaposition to a serene park like the Highline.