NYC Block Project

This Manhattan city block, located between 28th and 29th Streets and 10th and 11th Avenues, though largely residential, operates as an arts and arts education center. Programmatically, it is divided into four types of spaces: Visual Arts, Dance, Music, Residential, and Commercial.

The act of unfolding simultaneously reveals and conceals. This concept was used to generate the overall form and shape of the city block; folds appear in the form of the block, in façade movements, and in program placement.

Each artistic expression hosts a dialogue both internally and externally. Music communicates across the courtyard through the form work. The concert theater is located below the residential towers, acting as an anchor to the block. Visual arts communicates through the impacts of film screening and through its transitional locations in the block. Studios are midway up the residential tower, at the setback. Views of the Hudson River, and access to the balcony spaces, allow artists visual and physical movement. Galleries are located on the southern street edge along the unfolding entrance.