PHASE 3: Building

You will design a mixed use, but mostly residential structure that reacts to,
and/or could affects changing environments, places, views, use, and program.
The building will be located in West Chelsea, NYC, at 166-168 West 11th Avenue, between 22^nd and 23rd Street.
Its contemporary conception engages materials and surface treatments.

SITE OVERVIEW

www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/home.html

City planning-PROJECTS/PROPOSALS-MANHATTAN-WEST CHELSEA- LAND USE, buildings, zoning, high line.

http://gis.nyc.gov/doitt/mp/Portal.do

New York City Map Portal- type in street intersection (22^nd street and 11 avenue)- Site information-New York City Map- Lot info- Street/Aerial

GOOGLE MAPS-STREET VIEW

You should particularly concentrate in:

- Analysis of nearby buildings: lot info, front dimensions, deep dimension, number of floors, height, use.

- Analysis of vacant spaces or vacant lots.

- Analysis of courtyards, open private spaces within the buildings in the nearby blocks.

- Analysis of public open spaces, parks, green areas, waterfront.

- Analysis of infrastructural systems, circulation systems.

- Analysys of new developments in West Chelsea:

100 11 Ave./ Jean Nouvel/ www.nouvelchelsea.com/ neighborhood

11 Ave./18^th street/ F. Gehry/ www.IACbuilding.com

524 W. 19^th Street/ Shigeru Ban/ Metal Shutter Houses

Diller and Scofidio, project for the High Line in Chelsea; project for a Patisserie in NYC

www.40bond.com/ Herzog and De Meuron, Greenwich Village, NYC

More buildings in NYC: Mies van Der Rohe, R. Meyer, S. Calatrava, J. Pawson, Winka Dubbeldam, Libeskind, Renzo Piano, etc.