STEEL IN THE CITY COMPETITION
Conceptual Collages
Expected Finish Date: May 5
New York City. With the understanding and analysis of the Lower East Side of Essex and Delancy streets, students will transform 6 empty parcels into a master plan that will get submitted to the Steel in the City Competition in May. This project is Site 3 and will be transformed into the New Essex's Market. We welcome you to revisit the project throughout the Spring to see the design evolution of Site 3.
WEEK 1 : 2/26 - 3/5
Inspired by OMAs
WEEK 2 : 3/13- 3/17
WEEK 3 : 3/20 - 3/26
Scheme 1:
Market Space infiltrates the center of Site 3. The market orients
users as they circulate through the space and the varying programs.
Scheme 2:
Market Space takes up the side of the site. This allows for the other
program to be located above or to the side of the Market space.
The Market's form was influenced by the time diagram (above).
Final Project:
WAREHOUSE 26
2016-2017 ACSA/AISC |
STEEL DESIGN STUDENT COMPETITION
In the development of Essex Crossing’s master plan located in Manhattan’s Lower East Side resides Warehouse 26. The master plan includes six sites facing Delancy Street with the central site being our site and the source of orientation. Due to its location and proximity to public transit and major road ways -such as the Williamsburg bridge, the site begins to be carved to accommodate human interaction and circulation through the site.
The program includes: a market space, brewery, speak easy, eatery, art gallery, and work and live hubs. The circulation of the site carves the interior void of the Warehouse allowing the program to interact with the interior space. The structural diagrid that is found in the void of the cavern allows for the buildings to take on a floating condition. The steel diagrid is inverted and found on the interior of the program walls adjacent to the cavern to accommodate the open space on the inside of the building.
To assure that the viewers experience of the void occurs on the interior of the building a mesh screen was incorporated to allow for a sense of mystery to the viewers from Delancy street. View ports were cut out of the mesh which begins to give subtle hints of the interior space and diagrid to the exterior of Warehouse 28.
