ASO Studio: Manahatta Interrotta | Manhattan Interrupted - Recontextualizing the grid for sustainable, equitable futures
This studio challenges students to address the full range of complex and interrelated urban, architectural and infrastructure design issues of a new major intermodal transportation terminal combined with a large, dense mixed‐use program. Students explore structure, systems and building morphology on a grand scale, with major new program integrating with already vast existing buildings and systems.
J. Liang, B.Arch. 2021, Transformation of Waste.
ASOS Catalog Course Description
As growing populations and economies increasingly stress natural resources and ecosystems, one thing has become clear: increasing development density within established urban environments is the most sustainable form of growth. Sites formerly considered too burdensome, such as railyards and brownfields, have now become among the most desirable development sites in the planet's most vibrant megacities. Such development is needed to address and respond to major environmental and climatic changes which the building environment is affected by and in turn affects.
This studio challenges students to address the full range of complex and interrelated urban, architectural and infrastructure design issues of a new major intermodal transportation terminal combined with a large, dense mixed‐use program. Students explore structure, systems and building morphology on a grand scale, with major new program integrating with already vast existing buildings and systems. Studio discussion and design primarily addresses:
- Density & Complexity: design and context of megastructures, supertalls, groundscrapers, symbiotes and parasites, etc.
- Sustainable Systems Integration: transportation, water conservation, power generation, district thermal, recycling, waste removal, etc.
- Equitable Development meeting the needs of underserved communities, reducing disparities while fostering places that are healthy, vibrant and inclusive.