Doubled-Up Urbanism
Princeton Master’s Thesis.
Stan Allen, Advisor. 2006
An ongoing process of excessive construction – a model for urbanism as architecture (or architecture as urbanism) – a model of proliferation and growth, one that exploits the potentials of redundancy over efficiency, and works equally through addition and subtraction. In a particular configuration, two grounds begin to appear; one emerges at the height of Brooklyn’s active roof culture. The other emerges close to grade, a public volume equally accessable to pedestrians and vehicles. Perforations through both surfaces (a continued subtractions) frame the sky, separating some spaces and connecting others.
Program, in other words, is allowed to drift rather than determine.
