Martin Stigsgaard challenged his second year Masters of Architecture students with a housing project for 25,000 people at the site of the Baruch Houses, in the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Their proposals are both responsive to the NYC 20% affordable housing initiative, and to the flood zone threat on the East River. Three groups of four to five team members explored unique approaches and thoroughly developed their iterations of the project. On October 29th, midterm reviews took place at SSA to continue this conversation about verticality and urban density. The studio was honored to have highly esteemed reviewers in attendance to give constructive feedback on the progress. The guests included: John Cetra, Kenneth King, Julio Salcedo, Arnault Biou, Susanne Milne, Brad Horn, Cesare Birignani, Taewook Cha, and Eirini Tsachrelia. (See more about the jury members at the end of the post)
Urban Lattice: Alex Chepanova, Wafa Kadour, Rudy Mejia, Sadie Rayne, Brandon Thompson
Baruch Commons: Yennifer Diaz, Nicolas Losi, Jacqueline Love, Kenia Peralta
Vertical Shift: Anna Lekanidis, Nikitha Menon, Pat Muldoon, Olivia Skylarova, Feng You
Martin Stigsgaard and Kenneth King
A big thank you to all the jury members for participating in the review!
Check out our drawings on the Works page!
About the guests:
John Cetra: principal founder CetraRuddy Architects (sponsor of studio semester)
http://cetraruddy.com/
Kenneth King: architect and founder of Vertical City https://verticalcity.org/ken-king.html Prof. Julio Salcedo: Chair CCNY https://ssa.ccny.cuny.edu/blog/people/julio-salcedo-fernandez/ Arnault Biou: Studio Libeskind https://libeskind.com/people/arnault-biou/ Susanne Milne: 1100 Architects http://www.1100architect.com/leadership/ Prof. Brad Horn: Director of Graduate Architecture Program at SSA https://ssa.ccny.cuny.edu/blog/people/bradley-horn/
Prof. Cesare Birignani, CCNY (Architectural History) https://ssa.ccny.cuny.edu/people/cesare-birignani/ Taewook Cha: Supermass (Landscape Architecture) http://www.supermassstudio.com/people/ Prof. Eirini Tsachrelia: Parsons