morphing:

re-mixing residential programmes utilizing
properties of pre-war buildings

re-mixing residential programmes in pre-war buildings

With a ubiquitous density of Neo-Classical buildings on Broadway from w 87th to w 120th, I was set on distorting and disempowering the equally present painful iconography peppered on these buildings while designing a way for people to make more of the premium these buildings exclude — and always excluded — specific communities from: space; both living space and public space.

With a ubiquitous density of Neo-Classical buildings along Broadway from w 87th to w 120th, I was set on distorting and disempowering the equally present painful iconography peppered on these buildings while designing a way for people to make more of that premium these buildings exclude — always excluded — specific groups from having: space; that is, more of either living space or public space.

As Pre-War building windows were mostly standardized in their sizing, I employ them to hack – and let people hack – their building façades by deploying different forms that attach into their windows. Here, the 'pods' utilize ergonomics, common non-ergonomic motions, and perception-based parallax projection system, projecting users’ perception activities within the forms’ interfaces, while maintaining material transparency so as not to lose the window.

As Pre-War building windows were mostly standardized in sizing, I employ them to hack – and let people hack – their building façades by deploying different forms that attach into their windows. Here, the 'pods' utilize ergonomics, common non-ergonomic motions, and perception-based parallax projection systems, projecting users’ perception activities within the forms’ interfaces while maintaining material transparency so as not to lose the window.

By maintaining the material transparency, these ‘morphologies’ may now work to distort Neo-Classical notions of sublimity and generate a new hyper-real public space, whereby inhabitants experience new sets of public — or intimate — conditions and interactions both between inhabitants, as well as between inhabitants and city-dwellers, dwelling down below.

Using these forms, or ‘morphologies’, people are empowered to act on the space they inhabit; by cutting into / transforming existing programmes, or even making new programmes, they could finally make space for themselves that they otherwise never could.

By maintaining the material transparency, these ‘morphologies’ may now work to distort Neo-Classical notions of sublimity and generate a newer hyper-real public space, whereby inhabitants experience new sets of public — or intimate — conditions and interactions both between inhabitants, as well as between inhabitants and city-dwellers, dwelling down below.

Using these forms, or ‘morphologies’, people are empowered to act on these spaces that they inhabit; by cutting into / transforming existing programmes, or even making new programmes, they could finally make space for themselves that they otherwise never could.

I tested potential conditions and interactions by designing and making an architectural model. Here, the model accommodates some common schemes of both how 'morphologies' sit in their building façades and how the building façades themselves feel based on layouts of different streets/ street corner conditions.

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+architectural design

+concept design

+concept art

+3D-modelling

+rendering

+illustration

+presentations

+prototyping

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morphing:

morphing:

re-mixing residential programmes utilizing properties of pre-war buildings

re-mixing residential programmes in pre-war buildings

re-mixing residential programmes utilizing
properties of pre-war buildings