The site is located in lower Manhattan between Tribeca and White Hall. We started by defining a system in which the project as a smaller system would nest. The major system is a force field created by the interaction of different cultural territories co-existing on different layers of the site: Corporate, domestic, infrastructure and…
The project is conceived as a result of these interactions. The element of Media in the form of the project, would affect these cultural territories; enhancing the positive qualities and reducing the negative ones.
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Project: Media Center, NYC
Project Category: Parametric Design
Student: Pooyan Rouhiarmaki
Summer Studio: Vertical Option
School: Pratt Institute
Advisor: William MacDonald
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