Using downtown New York City as our design laboratory, the mandate for the project for Core Studio I is intended to initiate a process of design research with an emphasis on conceptualization and abstraction as a means of generating architectural strategies. The studio will be framed around the proposition that architecture be understood as a set of relationships rather than as an autonomous object. Toward that end, the studio will explore ways of producing architectural interventions based on an understanding of the city as a field of dynamic, cross-referential linkages and interfaces. The focus of the studio will be on the relationship between structure and membrane.
