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Architecture After the Street Blog

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3/20/2012

mengyi-fan:

after the street…

studio exercise #2 drawings

 
3/20/2012

Past Future Cities

(Source: danielatanzj)

 
3/20/2012

mengyi-fan:

master plan exercise - how can we think of the street as an integration with and not a seperation from the built space?

(1) street integrated building
(2) building as street
(3) express system with interchange
(4) local system with interchange
(5) original massing
(6) 40% open space
(7) underground system with street level connections

 
3/20/2012

Experiments in the Grid

(Source: marklueke)

 
3/20/2012

Spacesuit Motion

 
3/20/2012

Masterplanning

(Source: shuningzhao)

 
3/20/2012

(Source: andrewgargus)

 
3/20/2012

Experimenting with the Grid

 
3/20/2012

By far New York has the highest ridership of public transportation among US cities. A significant percentage of people take the subway, bus, or commuter rail daily. Combined with the options of traveling by foot, bike, or taxi, New York stands as the country’s premier model of urban multi-modal transit. Given the great number of people who travel by these means it would seem that the private automobile is not entirely needed. But be that as it may, the automobile is the main means of transportation. 

[“Commissioner’s Plan for Development of Manhattan,” 1811]

Though we often don’t consider it to be the case, the car is king in NYC. Accepting our four-wheel friend as a prerequisite, the studio will develop new architectural typologies by imagining a different presence for the car.

[“Hochhausstadt,” Ludwig Hilberseimer, 1924]

If the contemporary city up until now has been designed to the car’s specifications of movement, then we will develop new concepts of urban motion that influence the design of the car.

(Source: blog.experimentsinmotion.com)

 

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Accepting our four-wheel friend as a prerequisite, the studio will develop new architectural typologies by imagining a different presence for the car. If the contemporary city up until now has been designed to the car's specifications of movement, then we will develop new concepts of urban motion that influence the design of the car.

Jeffrey Inaba

Jeffrey Inaba teaches architectural theory and design studios at Columbia (where he is the founding director of C-Lab) and SCI-Arc (where he and Paul Nakazawa run SCIFI, the Southern California Institute for Future Initiatives); he heads Inaba Projects; and he regularly contributes to a wide variety of publications.

Steven Tsai

Steven (Sanwen) Tsai earned his Master of Architecture from Tulane University School of Architecture in New Orleans, and his Master of Science in Advanced Architectural Design from Columbia University.