ARCH 2102 Design V // Cornell University School of Architecture, Art, and Planning
Fall 2022 // Professor: Luben Dimcheff
Elevated above the memories of San Juan hill, This studio connects public and private spaces with the thresholds of the community. The value, economic, migration, and territorial, ideologies of the land are present before and remembered through the public museum. As one travels through the museum, different view ports into the city remind us of these erased values. The museum is interrupted by another artery, the private hotel. This can be recognized as resting stop, a pause, or a meeting point. The hotel becomes San Juan Hill’s living-room as it occupies the airspace, which is all that’s left. The form takes its shape from a human heart and arteries that are vital to the circulation of the body as a whole. The heart becomes a mechanism to overlap spaces and act as extensions into the landscape. At the moment of overlap, the two chambers create an atrium space, which can be seen as the threshold between these two mediums ; The public viewing museum, and the intimate hotel. The atrium space is a place for the city to pump back into each other.
Study // Personal and Public Space
Site Research // View Analysis
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