Derivation One: Hotel

Grid Corrosion: Vertical Programming Experiment

New York City, NY

University of Florida, 2010

Partner: David Boynton

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Set within the dense hyper grid of New York City's enigmatic Manhattan Island the hotel navigates the difference in scale from the skyscrapers of midtown and the low-rise district of Hell's Kitchen. It's primary body, a thin 45 story tower is comprised of 4 inter-played conceptual frameworks; a simple and static core, a fluid, amorphous and seductive void, a spine of galleries grafted vertically onto the core but within the void, and a series of programmatic boxes interlaced within the building.