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Project : Open Idea Competition

Location : Boston Area

Program : Landscapfrastructure

The SHIFTboston Ideas Competition 2009 called on all architects, artists, landscape architects, urban designers, engineers and anyone to submit their most provocative wild visions for the City of Boston: WHAT IF this could happen in Boston?

SHIFTboston seeks to collect visions that aim to enhance and electrify the urban experience in Boston. Innovative, radical ideas for new city elements such as public art, landscape, architecture, urban intervention and transportation. Competitors were encouraged to explore topics such as the future city, energy efficiency and ecological urbanism.

 

This competition is intended to collect and inspire. The goal is to attract greater public interest in future possibilities for the urban environment of Boston. We want to inspire and engage the city community while encouraging positive awareness and a hunger for change. We believe a collective desire to push boundaries and challenge the familiar are the necessary seeds with which to grow a more dynamic city!

(from the competition website)

www.shiftboston.org

The concept

 

 

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Project : Open Competition

Location : New York City

Program : Mixed-Use (Office+Retail)

click here for peace pentagon competition 01

http://www.peacepentagoncompetition.org

The 339 Lafayette St. Buillding represents the public movements in contemporary history of United States. And now, as we can see from the name of Peace Pentagon, it serves as a HUB program for public movements. The main concept of new proposal for Peace Pentagon is ‘Public Movement’. Although original building works as ‘public-related’ program, it lacks public-ness of the building. Hence, instead of keeping original facade, I proposed a layer of ‘public zone’ where people can easily access from the street and exhibition of history of public movements can be held. It is a communicating zone between the Pentagon and the public. With easier access and communication, it strengthens public contribution to future public movements. Public will easily know what Peace Pentagon is, what it is doing, and what kind of movements will go on. Also, increased accessibility will increase the benefit of additional programs those will be distributed along the circulation at this zone.

 

 

 

 

The Public Zone is designed as a circulation area as well as exhibition space on the wall. It naturally creates a buffer zone between outer curtain wall and inner exhibition wall which are both glazing glass. It can be called double-skin system that has public circulation inside. Considering the orientation of the facade, which is West, this buffer zone will work as air ventilating area so that it helps to prevent direct west sunlight from rooms inside.

 

Project : Open Competition

Location : New York City

Program : Mixed-Use (Office+Retail)

Competition Brief :

The Peace Pentagon Today. War has moved out of the spotlight, but wars continue in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq. The unresolved conflicts of our time and the United States government’s reliance on military interventions mean that many lives are in danger every day. The work of removing the root causes of war and violence continues. Since 1969, when the property was acquired by the War Resisters League, 339 Lafayette has been the headquarters of peace forces, a place where activists from many different organizations plan creative resistance to militarism and injustice.
Current Peace Pentagon programs include a hotline for GI’s who want to leave the military, information about redirecting taxes used for war, coordination of demonstrations, grant making, and TV programming. The building’s meeting space is used by activists from around the city.
Friends Of 339 and the Project to Save the Peace Pentagon. The building needs substantial repairs. Friends of 339 sees this as a opportunity to rethink the building as a symbol of peace activism in New York City.
We are a group of building tenants, and affiliates of the tenant organizations, working to create a sustainable future for the Peace Pentagon. The building is both a vital part of our connection to the world and a valuable economic resource. The proposals generated by the competition will help us to envision a building that optimizes our use of resources, raises public awareness about the Peace Pentagon and provokes thinking about architecture that expresses activism for peace and justice.  -from the competition website-

http://www.peacepentagoncompetition.org