Splintering, a Method for Re-stitching Urban Fabric Mistur's Design Development Studio - Spring 2007 McCormack, Corey Student housing Temporary Apartments Components Program: This instance of temporary pertains to housing aimed at students and young professionals who need a place for both living and working throughout their stay/visit to Rome. Each apartment is designed in such a way to allow its configurations to be expanded out or compacted in. Every occupant is able to employ these various configurations to meet their daily needs. This type of apartment is advantageous for their stage in life and particular situation but will be left once that stage is completed and this arrangement is no longer suitable. The space that is below the apartments, subject to the rise and fall of the river, is home to daily markets and other temporary activities that can sustain against an ever changing environment. The Building: A new structure is going to be placed here to which is going to permeate this emptiness and re-stitch the city fabric left unraveled by the presence of the Tiber River. The actual building components include a ‘splinter’ of the original embankment wall containing the apartments and a vertical piazza, the ‘thread’ connecting the old fabric to the new School of Architecture. (Troy, NY: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. 2007) Images Digital Jpeg2000 Rome, Italy 2007 Spring semester Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Splintering, a Method for Re-stitching Urban Fabric
Mistur's Design Development Studio - Spring 2007
McCormack, Corey
Student housing
Temporary
Apartments
Components
Program: This instance of temporary pertains to housing aimed at students and young professionals who need a place for both living and working throughout their stay/visit to Rome. Each apartment is designed in such a way to allow its configurations to be expanded out or compacted in. Every occupant is able to employ these various configurations to meet their daily needs. This type of apartment is advantageous for their stage in life and particular situation but will be left once that stage is completed and this arrangement is no longer suitable. The space that is below the apartments, subject to the rise and fall of the river, is home to daily markets and other temporary activities that can sustain against an ever changing environment. The Building: A new structure is going to be placed here to which is going to permeate this emptiness and re-stitch the city fabric left unraveled by the presence of the Tiber River. The actual building components include a ‘splinter’ of the original embankment wall containing the apartments and a vertical piazza, the ‘thread’ connecting the old fabric to the new
School of Architecture. (Troy, NY: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. 2007)
Images
Digital
Jpeg2000
Rome, Italy
2007 Spring semester
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY