SHIFTING HYBRIDS
Tribeca, NY
Arch 601 // PennDesign
Instructor // Hina Jamelle
Located in Tribeca, NY and intended to be an experimental, mixed-media performance, exhibition, and studio hot-spot, this building is inhabited by the very people who produce and perform the work. Hotel and live-work combine to act as a continually dynamic and ever-changing creative drive by the specialty and temporal diversity of the artists.
Lights act as an agent of convergence, divergence, and overlap to lead the patron through programs and circulation. Just as light flows, it scatters. This act of scattering is what is conveyed in the facade, yet the regulated pattern shows a sense of cohesion, as well. It can also be conceived that visual pattern throughout the architecture explains the dynamism of ideas taking place inside, the taking in of the city as inspiration, and the act of giving back creative energy to its surroundings.
Lessons
"That Maya is a difficult program. It takes weeks of practice to get somewhat of a proper handle on it. It's really built for animation, but when used for architecture, it can lead to some interesting results. It was also great in exploring pattern-making through rigorous iterations through this studio. Trust me, the final result is not how it started out."