PROGRAM: Apartment housing of at least thirty two bedroom units. “Wine Center” at street level as the Finger Lakes wine country emerges as a prominent wine producing region.
SITE: Adjacent to the Ithaca Commons, the cultural and commercial center of the America’s #1 emerging small town in 2004.
CONCEPTS:
Housing:
The housing component was an internally generated scheme adapted to the constraints of the selected site. By taking a standard high-rise arrangement, with a circulation core at the center of a square tower structure, and separating the four corners from the core, the scheme’s organization increases the quality of each apartment’s access to light, view, and air, and conform to or express site grids and orientations.
Wine:
The focus in the Wine Center was on wine tasting and consuming as a highly social event. The street level therefore developed as a large 3 story space centered on an atrium housing the “wine tower” spectacle. Individual floor slabs house areas for bars, vendors, and restaurants with seemingly random walkways connecting these slabs. This is meant to create an experience of heightened the social interaction. Much of one’s experience would be spent meandering between wine tastings, with most interaction taking place on the walkways. Arrangement of the spider web of paths ties the program together without directing or defining specific movement through the space.
SITE: Adjacent to the Ithaca Commons, the cultural and commercial center of the America’s #1 emerging small town in 2004.
CONCEPTS:
Housing:
The housing component was an internally generated scheme adapted to the constraints of the selected site. By taking a standard high-rise arrangement, with a circulation core at the center of a square tower structure, and separating the four corners from the core, the scheme’s organization increases the quality of each apartment’s access to light, view, and air, and conform to or express site grids and orientations.
Wine:
The focus in the Wine Center was on wine tasting and consuming as a highly social event. The street level therefore developed as a large 3 story space centered on an atrium housing the “wine tower” spectacle. Individual floor slabs house areas for bars, vendors, and restaurants with seemingly random walkways connecting these slabs. This is meant to create an experience of heightened the social interaction. Much of one’s experience would be spent meandering between wine tastings, with most interaction taking place on the walkways. Arrangement of the spider web of paths ties the program together without directing or defining specific movement through the space.
