PROGRAM: A “Media Exhibition Center” for NYC. Surfaces for displaying visual content. Support spaces such as offices, storage, and café.
SITE: A vacant lot at the intersection of 14th St. and 10th Avenue. Near many art galleries, Chelsea Piers, Hudson Greenway, and Highline.
CONCEPT: The edge condition of the site creates an effect of compression on site, where the city meets the water. The building is composed of a series of compressed layers to form a spatial organization that expresses conditions of the site and creates a sequence for experiencing media. The large vertical surfaces inherent in the layering of the project become a potential medium for displaying content. Movement through layers is both actual and perceptual. Shallow space is created through composition of surfaces to create an expression of projected media as a form of three dimensional communication. This digital media is spatially decompressed from a screen containing spatial and experiential qualities within a single, thin, unoccupiable layer that can be called "media space". Architecture functions as a blank screen for media but does not use generic or defined space for housing of the screen. Interaction between projected screen and architectural space has the potential to inspire and influence progress in the art of creating and displaying media.
SITE: A vacant lot at the intersection of 14th St. and 10th Avenue. Near many art galleries, Chelsea Piers, Hudson Greenway, and Highline.
CONCEPT: The edge condition of the site creates an effect of compression on site, where the city meets the water. The building is composed of a series of compressed layers to form a spatial organization that expresses conditions of the site and creates a sequence for experiencing media. The large vertical surfaces inherent in the layering of the project become a potential medium for displaying content. Movement through layers is both actual and perceptual. Shallow space is created through composition of surfaces to create an expression of projected media as a form of three dimensional communication. This digital media is spatially decompressed from a screen containing spatial and experiential qualities within a single, thin, unoccupiable layer that can be called "media space". Architecture functions as a blank screen for media but does not use generic or defined space for housing of the screen. Interaction between projected screen and architectural space has the potential to inspire and influence progress in the art of creating and displaying media.
