FELIX
Temporary Wooden Playscape
Governors Island, New York City
Columbia GSAPP with Mark Bearak, Spring 2016
Project Team: James Brillon, Mengze Chen, Arianna Deane, Mira De Avila-Shin, Bingyu Guan, Benjamin Hochberg, Coco Ke Shi, Taiwei Wang, Xiaoyu Wang, Angela Yang, and Zhengyang (Echo) Yue with Jordan Meerdink and Christopher Tomasetti
This project is in partnership with the squatters movement that fight for the right to housing. A response to the lack of public housing in the city center of Rio de Janeiro and the current development of Porto Maravilha of the Port Zone, the housing tower acts as both an alternative public forum and a platform of communication for squatter movements.
The city centre in relation the extent of Rio and where the majority of housing projects lie
The site, in existing squatter housing Mariana Crioula, located in the Port Zone with lots (in white) under development
Interior of public forum, encompassed by housing units
Housing Tower amongst Porto Maravilha development
Housing Tower at night, showing the membrane as a means of communication to the city
Scales of assembly
Section and plan on typical housing units
Street Level Plan
Spatial separation between existing building facade and new structure
Common spaces amongst units
Project presented at studio exhibition at the 2016 End of the Year Show, Columbia GSAPP, conceptualized as a 160' long 18"x18" accordian book on a floating chevron shelf, each "V" a chapter.
