Y2: Any Place

Through the ANY Place design studio I explored the architectural design conditions that specifically extend beyond the level of the local. Among such conditions are those concerned with function, program, spatial experience or insertion within a wider socio-cultural context.

The design of a library in Madrid served as the vehicle for orienting us towards considering architectural production as something that simultaneously engages with both the individual experience and the milieu of society at large. We were encouraged to approach our designs for a library as an instrument of mediation between the scale of the individual and the scale of collective culture.

Y2: In Place

The city is primarily shaped by social, economic, and political processes; the city and its processes and forces leave their mark on the building. Instead of encouraging architecture to resist such interference in its own territory, In Place suggests studying the city as a means of devising an architectural response to the urban condition.

The studio began with the analysis of housing precedents, followed by the analysis of the site and its environment. The findings of the two assignments formed the basis for the design of a residential building.

Concept sketch of Residential project.

Contextual elevation of unit

Model of residential building within site model.

Sketch render of entrance lobby to building.