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STACKED URBAN SPECTACLES
For the Spring 2016 Integrated Design Schematic studio, the site is located along the High Line in Chelsea. The design studio, as a precursor to Integrated Design Development, leverages the opportunity to examine the production of the architectural icon through a more fundamental examination of the urban fabric as a rich field of architectural iconography. Over the last two decades the High Line has transformed the status of urban architecture along its corridor. With its elevated public space,
the site encourages both an architecture of public spectacle and public program as a complex sectional condition for development. The program,
a performance center that entails spatial demands and environmental parameters and further encompasses a flexible event space, challenges students to develop a variety of formal organizational strategies. Many of these strategies address the emerging urban context as defined by the High Line as contemporary urban condition within the historic rhythm
of New York’s grid. The projects examine the relationship of an urban building—including structural form and spatial organization—to the public realm as a contribution to the larger condition of the contemporary city as urban spectacle.
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