Liberty Street Towers: lower Manhattan

Warriner's vertical studio project

Liberty Street Towers: lower Manhattan Warriner's vertical studio project Warriner vertical studio students Tower buildings Urban development Design development drawings High rise buildings Planned unit developments Student projects Following a line running parallel to Wall Street and the lower edge of the World Trade Center site is a slim east-west pedestrian passage that moves from Louise Nevelson Plaza and the huge Dubuffet sculpture in Chase Plaza west to Liberty Park (recently renamed Zuccotti Park). On this same east-west alignment a new park two blocks long and a block wide is planned as part of the southern edge of the WTC rebuilding. Separating these two open space systems is a block of nondescript medium-height privately owned buildings, destined, after the WTC reconstruction is finished, to become a cluster of high-rise towers - more than likely, residential towers. The studio focused was the design of these towers - such that 1) the structures are configured at their lower levels to afford and intensify substantial movements between the two east-west park systems, 2) the adjacent WTC development is visually linked with the existing city, 3) a public ground-level venue is provided for the arts and 4) ecologically sensitive housing is afforded embodying open green spaces above ground level School of Architecture. (Troy, NY: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2006) Abruzzese, Kristen Hartswick, Christopher Martes, Henry O'Mara, Michael Warriner, Kenneth Images Digital Jpeg New York, NY, USA 2006 Fall semester Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY

Liberty Street Towers: lower Manhattan

Warriner's vertical studio project

Warriner vertical studio students

Tower buildings

Urban development

Design development drawings

High rise buildings

Planned unit developments

Student projects

Following a line running parallel to Wall Street and the lower edge of the World Trade Center site is a slim east-west pedestrian passage that moves from Louise Nevelson Plaza and the huge Dubuffet sculpture in Chase Plaza west to Liberty Park (recently renamed Zuccotti Park). On this same east-west alignment a new park two blocks long and a block wide is planned as part of the southern edge of the WTC rebuilding. Separating these two open space systems is a block of nondescript medium-height privately owned buildings, destined, after the WTC reconstruction is finished, to become a cluster of high-rise towers - more than likely, residential towers. The studio focused was the design of these towers - such that 1) the structures are configured at their lower levels to afford and intensify substantial movements between the two east-west park systems, 2) the adjacent WTC development is visually linked with the existing city, 3) a public ground-level venue is provided for the arts and 4) ecologically sensitive housing is afforded embodying open green spaces above ground level

School of Architecture. (Troy, NY: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2006)

Abruzzese, Kristen

Hartswick, Christopher

Martes, Henry

O'Mara, Michael

Warriner, Kenneth

Images

Digital

Jpeg

New York, NY, USA

2006 Fall semester

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY