Archology
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Studio work in the BFA in Architectural Design culminates with a Capstone Senior Project. In this final studio, students engage projects from a range of topics related to the body. Here, “body” refers to both the human corporeal body and the human social body (or bodies), as constructed and framed through the material conditions of architecture, urban fabric and interior space. A broad and deep study informed by research and analysis begins the semester and critically informs design. Topics range from urban scale interventions where designers are increasingly engaging the social, political and economic realities of the city as generative content for creating place, to the study of particular building types that provide students with tangible opportunities to engage the important issues that frame contemporary architecture.
This studio rethinks how to optimize the health of a city and its occupants through the creation of a new regenerative city. Two sites are explored: one on Rikers Island and one on the current site of the Bowery Bay Water Treatment Plant, Queens, NY. In the studio, the city becomes a positive contributor where new urban projects are designed, where equity and sustainability are foregrounded, and where all citizens benefit. The architectural program includes a STEM/STEAM high school, a Community Center, and Environmental Research Center. The projects also propose new ways to environmentally remediate the site.
This studio investigates the future possibilities of the common architecture of the New York City Block. By common, we mean both ordinary, but also as something a group of people share in common. How will the common New York City block adapt to the three crises of our time: pandemic recovery, climate change, and social equity? Instead of seeing the block only as individual buildings divided by walls and property, can there be common or shared spaces and uses? The studio assumes that the shared architecture of the block as a whole is better situated to address issues such as living with COVID, social equity and climate resilience, rather than individual buildings. Each student chose a block in New York City as a site of analysis and redesign from both the outside-in and the inside-out. While a block from the inside is typically a “donut” consisting of a perimeter of outward street facing properties with private or shared back gardens, blocks are socially defined from the outside as a street space connecting from one intersection to another. The design work is a simulation of various realities continually unfolding on the ground. The block can be seen as a game board, a 3D puzzle, on which shared memories, neighborhood stories, communities fantasies are played out.
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