Fall 2010 Design Studio
Alexander Eisenschmidt
This project aims to rethink interior urbanism through the possibility of sectionally activating the ‘mat’ building floor plan by injection. As initially presented, the programmatic requirements of the Educatorium would appear on the site as stacked and segregated layers of program.
By taking those programs with the largest area requirements and comparing them to the urban conditions of Chicago, a typology for each of these was established and pulled up (or down, or both) from the ‘mat’ plan condition. These towers of programmatic isolation are continuations of full floor plans within the middle ‘island’, that when injected into foreign programs create endless opportunities for absorption, mixing, or elusion.
