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Tsafoulia / Fall 2018 / ARCH 73100
One Madison Tower by Cetra Rudy is sited in a vital location within the Manhattan grid. It is an iconic residential tower that optimizes the urban design opportunity presented by its location while engaging in an architectural dialogue with neighboring landmarks and actively shaping Manhattan´s skyline.
Why an existing building? In a city with distinct density and verticality, existing tower infrastructures are a result of multiple forces such as zoning, codes, structural engineering, real estate, public media, latent buyers and more. Apartment towers in New York are leading the evolution of the urban fabric in equally influential ways as infrastructure and public space do. The studio seeks to gain a critical perspective on the current housing market by experimenting with alternative visions of global domesticity and by researching new hybrid housing programs within an existing building framework.
Stigsgaard / Fall 2018 / ARCH 73100
Based on data mining and through close investigation of Kenneth King and Kellogg Wong’s Vertical City: Solution for Sustainable Living, 2015, students will generate a proposal for a new typology of integrated housing, independent of the city surrounding it. The studio will consider environmental, formal, socio-economic, and political ambitions.
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Baruch Houses is a tower complex on twenty-seven and a half acres of land in the Lower East Side of Manhattan. It is made up of seventeen nearly identical sixteen and seventeen story buildings. The buildings take up only twelve percent of the site, leaving ample space for landscaping, walking paths, sitting areas, and playgrounds. Buildings on the site appear to lack a systematic organization system, and buildings seem to be placed on the site haphazardly. Many of the buildings are located on the west portion of the site between Columbia Street and Baruch Drive, leaving some buildings slightly more isolated on the east side of the site near Franklin D. Roosevelt Drive. These buildings surround spaces such as basketball courts and soccer fields, which are the primary outdoor social spaces of the development.
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Vertical City: Solution for Sustainable Living
Loukia Tsafoulia registered architect TEE-TCG and PhD candidate at the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), received her Post Professional Master of Science in Advanced Architectural Design (MSAAD) from the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University with a fellowship from the Gerondelis Foundation.
She is the co-founder of PLB studio and founding partner of Fabula & Syuzhet. She is a visiting Assistant Professor at Pratt Institute, an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the City University of New York, The Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture, and an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the New York City College of Technology, Architectural Department of Technology and Adjunct Faculty at Parsons, The New School.
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Martin Stigsgaard born in Denmark and educated at The Royal Academy of Fine Arts in the heart of Copenhagen. He has an additional master degree from University of Washington in Seattle as the Valle Scholarship recipient.
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Founder of studioStigsgaard. As Lead designer with Voorsanger Architects, he has designed and been the lead on several international award winning project and led several major design competitions. He is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at The Spitzer School of Architecture and teaches the Master and Bachelor program. Previously, in 2005-2006 he was assistant Director and Professor at The Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen.
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