Perspective Section
The Tunnel is an alternative for circulation. It begins to disrupt the generic circulatory method of the building, allowing unplanned confrontations as it becomes the main connecting organ of the dormitory.
Conceptually the project begins with the pathway of the student within the Pratt Campus. This path meanders away from the main organization, forming a new reciprocating network.
One of the Tunnel's objectives is to disrupt a conventional living unit. This formal notion of disruption reflects the irregular education and lifestyle of the art student in coorelation to the common academic institutions as well as social systems that govern society.
The formal language of the Tunnel is having an identity crisis. It is stuck between an undomesticated abstraction and a conventional architecture. The untamed orange struggles to adapt to the generic, creating new and interstitial spaces for living and socializing.
Interstitial living conditions. Private rooms that negotiate the infection.
The Tunnel opens up to other public means of circulation. Perhaps squeezing the local inhabitants out of their interstitial rooms, in order to host and connect these individuals with other circulating occupants.
Wrapping the urban fabric around and upon itself.
Notioning towards some kind of contextual change as it evolves from low rise to high rise.
Zoning the building revolved around preserving a contextual relationship while meeting codes.
Cross Section looking South.
Cross Section looking North.
Long Section looking West.
Site Plan
1/8" Final Model
1/8" Chunk Model - Study
1/4" Chunk Model - Study
1/8" Chunk Model - Study
1/32" Site Model
1/32" Massing Typologies
