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 Studio 4 Advanced Architecture StudioInstructor:
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While much of the focus of the loss of the World Trade Center has been on the vacant skyline, the focus of this studio will be the vacancy at the ground plane. The view from ground zero is one of vacancy. It is vacant of three constituencies who previously occupied the territory at three vastly different scales: members of the world-wide financial system which was symbolically attacked, a metropolitan area commuting work force, and residents of a local downtown district which was the site of this brutal power confrontation. Re-occupying the site programmatically through usage by the financial industry rather than symbolically as a tower is a first step toward re-claiming the vacant territory. As the actual and visceral center of this economic system, a stock exchange is proposed for the site. Bringing together both the representational capacity and the visceral understanding of this system, the stock exchange will be understood as having two publics. The first of these being the members of the exchange and the second, the larger public for whom an understanding of the power system of the market is critical if this power is to be kept in check.
The studio proposed that the actual physical site makes possible a visceral level of understanding of a system that is becoming increasingly abstract and increasingly insidious. In an effort to discover appropriateness and expand the other territorial claims, a public room or public entry from the commuting systems, which intersect the site was also proposed. It was determined by the student to be understood as memorial, as event space, as performance space, as commercial space, or simply as passage.
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Michael Chiat
I-Shin Chow
Wei-Cheng Chuang
Michael Green
Allison Hale
Jeong Seo Lee
Raphael Levy
Georgia Papadavid
Judith Tse
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