Crevice Tower Mistur's Design Development Studio - Spring 2007 O'Mara, Michael Tower buildings Skyscrapers Apartments Towers (single built works) Canyons Aleatory Circulation spaces Located on the southeast corner at the intersection of Greenwich Street and Liberty Street, Lower Manhattan, sits a slim site that divides the east-west pedestrian passage (comprised mainly of public parks/plazas) that migrates from the East River at Wall Street west to Battery Park City. In order to continue the flow of movement and park space, this design proposes a residential tower that serves as an urban crevice. From the macro scale of the urban environment, this crevice will afford and intensify substantial movements between the two east-west park systems, allowing that space to become not of a territorial nature, but one that addresses the desire for openness of movements from which new aleatory connections among people and activities can emerge. This crevice also exposes the micro-scale conditions of an urban residential environment. Similar to the organization of geologically occurring crevices or canyons, in which a stratification of information emerges exposing the history and composition of our Earth; this urban crevice exposes the stratification of various systems integrated with a residential community School of Architecture. (Troy, NY: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. 2007) Images Digital Jpk2 NewYork City, NY, USA 2007 Spring semester Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Crevice Tower
Mistur's Design Development Studio - Spring 2007
O'Mara, Michael
Tower buildings
Skyscrapers
Apartments
Towers (single built works)
Canyons
Aleatory
Circulation spaces
Located on the southeast corner at the intersection of Greenwich Street and Liberty Street, Lower Manhattan, sits a slim site that divides the east-west pedestrian passage (comprised mainly of public parks/plazas) that migrates from the East River at Wall Street west to Battery Park City. In order to continue the flow of movement and park space, this design proposes a residential tower that serves as an urban crevice. From the macro scale of the urban environment, this crevice will afford and intensify substantial movements between the two east-west park systems, allowing that space to become not of a territorial nature, but one that addresses the desire for openness of movements from which new aleatory connections among people and activities can emerge. This crevice also exposes the micro-scale conditions of an urban residential environment. Similar to the organization of geologically occurring crevices or canyons, in which a stratification of information emerges exposing the history and composition of our Earth; this urban crevice exposes the stratification of various systems integrated with a residential community
School of Architecture. (Troy, NY: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. 2007)
Images
Digital
Jpk2
NewYork City, NY, USA
2007 Spring semester
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY