Arch 301_Comprehensive Design I
Final Model_1/8” Scale
Partner @quixitect
Professor @cblarch
Description:
‘The Public Ground’ proposes a two-story community fresh market and learning center in the flood zone of Red Hook, Brooklyn, designed as a civic beacon for public access, education, community engagement, and sustainable food production.
Rooted in existing site conditions, the design extends the waterfront park and pedestrian pathways into an open, 24/7 publicly accessible landscape. Textures drawn from Red Hook shape the landscape, blending the city, park, and market into a continuous experience.
The market and greenhouses occupy the ground level along the waterfront, while canopies above, supported by a tree-like framework, shelter the public ground. Learning and support spaces are located on the second level, functioning as a flexible multipurpose interior, with more defined offices and classrooms.
Arch 202_Intermediate Design II
Final Model of Project
This 1/8” = 1’ scale model represents an adaptive reuse project that transforms a parking structure into a recreation center
Pratt School of Architecture @prattsoa
Professor: Laura Salazar @salazarsequeromedina
Description: This proposal envisions a recreation center as an adaptive reuse of the existing parking structure at 209 Center Street in Manhattan. Focusing on sustainable development through material reuse, ecological integration, and urban engagement.
Central to the design is the integration of green spaces that serve as both transitional and programmatic elements, facilitating a dialogue between built form and nature.
A continuous glass façade functions like a greenhouse, with its structure derived from reused existing elements. On the west side, built topography forms a planted zone, with a secondary façade enclosing these green spaces, creating a porous boundary between the interior landscape and the urban sidewalk.
Chloe Crawford (@chloec_arch ) | UA | Year 2 | Intermediate Design 1: ARCH 201 | Fall 2024 | Prof. Chi-Fan Wong (@chifan_wong )
Building on the first year’s production in formal systems, Pratt's second year thematically explores organizational systems, as implicated by typology. The fall exposes buildings arranged in the horizontal disposition that privilege the use of the floor plan as a mechanism to conceive of and organize space. The course's focus is given to the architectural elements of the roof, the ground, and the wall as devices which contribute to the organization of the plan of the building.
Students follow a two project sequence that independently ask them to establish architectural design principles of roof tectonics ( light roof framing ), and ground stereotomics ( heavy cutting and insertions ) before hybridizing these principles into a final project. The chosen projects examine public institutions in the field pavilion and mat-building format, on sites that exhibit mild to moderate topography. Given the public nature of the projects, students are exposed to the concepts community stakeholders, infrastructure as well as access, procession, accessibility, and privacy.
