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Aerial perspective showing the ININ infill massing along Park Avenue on Manhattan as a reaction to housing needsAerial perspective showing the ININ infill massing along Park Avenue on Manhattan as a reaction to housing needsAerial perspective showing the ININ infill massing along Park Avenue on Manhattan as a reaction to housing needsAerial perspective showing the ININ infill massing along Park Avenue on Manhattan as a reaction to housing needs
Aerial perspective showing the ININ infill massing along Park Avenue on Manhattan as a reaction to housing needs

Infrastructural Infill is a reaction to the increasing realization that the city cannot continue to sprawl for the reasons that the quality, specificity, and contrast of the city would be sacrificed in favor of a market-driven, limitless, and homogeneous territory. Capturing population growth in a dense urban environment is essential for the long-term global competitiveness of the city as a built ecology of living, working, creation, socializing, transport, and culture. This research was conducted in hopes that there are alternative models for meeting and exceeding the projected demands of the future city.

Aerial perspective showing the ININ infill massing along Park Avenue on Manhattan as a reaction to housing needs

Perspectives

Concepts

Urbanism

City

Housing

Infill

Infrastructure

Competitions

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Section drawing of the potential for ININ infill and transport infrastructure above the unused median of Park AvenueSection drawing of the potential for ININ infill and transport infrastructure above the unused median of Park AvenueSection drawing of the potential for ININ infill and transport infrastructure above the unused median of Park AvenueSection drawing of the potential for ININ infill and transport infrastructure above the unused median of Park Avenue
Perspective showing the splitting of the ININ housing bar into separate projects with captured landscape opportunitiesPerspective showing the splitting of the ININ housing bar into separate projects with captured landscape opportunitiesPerspective showing the splitting of the ININ housing bar into separate projects with captured landscape opportunitiesPerspective showing the splitting of the ININ housing bar into separate projects with captured landscape opportunities
Sequence of drawings proposing that hybrid ININ housing infrastructure be made for the demand of the people of the citySequence of drawings proposing that hybrid ININ housing infrastructure be made for the demand of the people of the citySequence of drawings proposing that hybrid ININ housing infrastructure be made for the demand of the people of the citySequence of drawings proposing that hybrid ININ housing infrastructure be made for the demand of the people of the city
Diagram showing the potential ININ infill housing massing along Park Avenue based on the 1916 NYC Zoning ResolutionDiagram showing the potential ININ infill housing massing along Park Avenue based on the 1916 NYC Zoning ResolutionDiagram showing the potential ININ infill housing massing along Park Avenue based on the 1916 NYC Zoning ResolutionDiagram showing the potential ININ infill housing massing along Park Avenue based on the 1916 NYC Zoning Resolution
Collection of photos along Park Avenue documenting the underutilized spaces that could be used for infill housing via ININCollection of photos along Park Avenue documenting the underutilized spaces that could be used for infill housing via ININCollection of photos along Park Avenue documenting the underutilized spaces that could be used for infill housing via ININCollection of photos along Park Avenue documenting the underutilized spaces that could be used for infill housing via ININ
Perspective collage illustrating the relationship between the ININ housing infill with adjacent park and public spacesPerspective collage illustrating the relationship between the ININ housing infill with adjacent park and public spacesPerspective collage illustrating the relationship between the ININ housing infill with adjacent park and public spacesPerspective collage illustrating the relationship between the ININ housing infill with adjacent park and public spaces
Urban masterplan diagram showing the zones within Park Avenue that could be used for housing ININ infillUrban masterplan diagram showing the zones within Park Avenue that could be used for housing ININ infillUrban masterplan diagram showing the zones within Park Avenue that could be used for housing ININ infillUrban masterplan diagram showing the zones within Park Avenue that could be used for housing ININ infill
Section drawing illustrating the potential for ININ infill housing above the existing raised rail line through HarlemSection drawing illustrating the potential for ININ infill housing above the existing raised rail line through HarlemSection drawing illustrating the potential for ININ infill housing above the existing raised rail line through HarlemSection drawing illustrating the potential for ININ infill housing above the existing raised rail line through Harlem

OTHER PROJECTS

University Island is a swirling shapeshifter, in both the landscape and the architecture, that offers it’s undefined field of opportunities to the students and anticipates that each will discover and produce their own individual relationship with the island and their education.
Space has become redundant again. Popular culture is uninterested in the goings-on in space. Once achieved, mans absurd relation with space becomes yesterdays news. To become relevant to the public, CASIS must be an amenity and not a mission. Instead of promoting an HQ, make it a public interface.
Infrastructure as urban performance. Serving as both a backdrop to elegant theatrical dances and a framework for holding a wandering public, the Dance Machine enacts performance through both its program and its existence as a merged urban extension of the Queensboro Bridge.
Utilizing built form as a strategic carrier of culture in opposition of the status quo, the Hellinikon project links the disconnected suburban mountain communities to the east with the sea to the west while splitting the Hellinikon International Airport and Olympic Park into distinct zones.
The RACA project must meet two demands: A. REFLECTION (museum) or B. CONTINUATION (practice + addition). The current program and its stagnancy has left the site forgotten—it is a typical static museum on a living site. The site and addition must constantly change through the participation of people.
The challenge of creating a pair of studio apartments that can fill a lifted 16'x16' void necessitates the creation of a quick, mobile, and opportunistic building system that can react to the found conditions of the site. Access to the site is limited and the ground must be free.
Seeing Park Avenue as an underutilized zone that connects four vibrant neighborhoods from 42nd Street to 144th Street, Infrastructural Infill is a study testing the potential to locate a combination of mixed-use housing and transportation in the residual spaces caused by urban infrastructure.
The YELE music studio competition, underway before the earthquake, must respond now, but plan for the future of the community. Music is relief in a time of tragedy. The goal is to meet the most basic survival needs now while leaving spaces for future growth through self sustaining phases.

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