This was a student project by Alexander Maymind for John McMorrough's ARCH 442 course, Winter 2006. The design of a new multi-use urban scheme addresses the big problems of a hyper-complex program, a loaded context, and the banalities and critical issues typically part of a largely vertical, monotonous, repetitive project. Here the architecture becomes the site plan, the urban scheme, and the infrastructural network simultaneously wrapped into a whole. The differentiated whole negotiates a texture of programs converging around voids to bridge truly distinct and complex environments laterally. This rethinking of the tower/base type evokes new collectivities emerging from the tension between the banal and the complex. This texture of difference mutates as it takes the shape of patterns, shapes abrupt juxtapositions, and organizes chaotic heterogeneity. ---- Alexander Maymind This work is a part of the online collections of the Knowlton School of Architecture Student Archives, The Ohio State University. It is part of an effort to make accessible student work ranging from the first student that graduated from the program in 1903 to the present. This effort was sponsored in part by the Graham Foundation. Keywords: student work, KSA, drawings and plans, computer renderings, sections.
