GSAPP Core III Studio

Critic: Esteban de Backer

 GSAPP Core III Studio
Critic: Esteban de Backer
Project Proposal: Cutaway City

A sturdy, affordable construction of stacked

high-aggregate concrete units, each 20’ x 20’ x 10’,
forms the skeleton of a 500-resident development.
The resulting mass is carved away vertically and
horizontally, leaving open volumes of shared space
that augment the livable area of the adjacent units.
The process of cutting away unnecessary structure
to make room for communal amenities creates an
interconnected framework of public and private
areas without relying on wasted spaces, such as
double-loaded hallways.

GSAPP Core III Studio

Critic: Esteban de Backer
 GSAPP Core III Studio
Critic: Esteban de Backer
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GSAPP Tech IV — BuildingGSAPPSystems Integration
Core III Studio

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Critics: Joe Hand,䣃䢴䢲䢲
Paul Laroque, Sigal Shemesh,
Critic: Esteban de Chan
Katherine Backer
 GSAPP Core II Studio
Critic: Benjamin Cadena

Lower East Side Preparatory High School New Explorations into Science,
Cascades High School (01M650) (01M515) Technology and Math High School Bard High School Early College (01M696)

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Project Proposal: Archive of Meanders

The enormous hole dug for the building’s foundation delineates a wondrous, vast place
where students develop practical skills in an impractical environment. Subterranean
areas privilege private exploration. Undulating hallways hold the “library,” a river delta of
ruins continuously re-excavated. Classrooms emerge as eddies where the library widens,
ensconced across multiple levels­—waystations, not destinations. Ancillary programming
emerges organically according to the building envelope. The school is a landscape of
knowledge through which students chart their course.

GSAPP Core II Studio

Critic: Benjamin Cadena
 GSAPP ADR II
Critic: Violet Whitney

Reads Faces! Draws Emotions!

GSAPP Core III Studio

Critic: Esteban de Backer
Project Proposal: Above Median

Issues affecting the health of seniors in the Hamilton Heights community are
inherently social, and therefore demand a multifunctional intervention.
The proposed design acknowledges the complex and interconnected web of
needs and challenges facing senior community members, including basic
non-physician health attention, spiritual services, and communal recreation.
The entire system of spaces is designed to be contained within the footprint of
the Broadway median, a public space already popular as a place of gathering
in the community, but underdeveloped and dangerous due to an imbalanced
relationship between park and roadway.

GSAPP Core I Studio

Critic: Alessandro Orsini
 GSAPP Core I Studio
Critic: Alessandro Orsini
GSAPP Core I Studio
Critic: Alessandro Orsini