RISING & NARROWING
Manhattan, NY
Spring 2016
 Conceptual Diagrams |  Concept Diagram |  Plaza Diagram |
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 Museum Diagram |  Site Plan |  Site Section |
 Basement Floor Plan |  First Floor Plan |  Second Floor Plan |
 Third Floor Plan |  Fourth Floor Plan |  Fifth Floor Plan |
 Sixth Floor Plan |  Northeast Elevation |  Northwest Elevation |
 Southwest Elevation |  Section |  Section |
 Diagrams |  Wall Section |
This project was a competition that involved the design of a mid-rise, mixed-use complex with affordable housing units, a NYC outpost of The Andy Warhol Museum, and a new home for the historic Essex Street Market. The project location is in Manhattan's lower east side in the former Seward Park Urban Redevelopment Area. The competition asked participants to design places of small-scale commercial exchange, as well as social and cultural exchanges while utilizing building systems of innovative wood technologies.
 Market & Museum Plaza Exterior View |  Museum Lobby View |  Interior Terrace View |
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 Gallery View |  Model |  Model |
 Model |
My interpretation of the project resulted in a low, wide, L-shaped horizontal Essex Street Market that reaches the edge of the street corner to draw passerby and the community inside. The medium height residential space on the other half of the site balances the presence of the market and Warhol museum. The towering, vertical Andy Warhol museum, located at the back of the site, narrows as it rises up, intensifying the sensation of being elevated and heightened above the ground with each rising floor. Inside the museum, alternating indoor and outdoor terraces provide scenic views of the surrounding city and decompression spaces as people view the galleries and continue on their experience upward. The structure of the museum includes Glu-Laminated columns and beams with Cross-Laminated timber panels. The facade of the museum employs finished Honey Oakwood panels and glazing.