This was a student project by Sarah Boles for Mark Ours's ARCH 342 course, Winter 2006. The project responds to the spatial/environmental conditions that result from densification. Using a site in Brooklyn, New York as a case study for intervening in dark places, specifically under the Manhattan Bridge in the neighborhood called DUMBO (Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass). The design for this project develops material and programming strategies adaptable to environments that have been cast in shadow. The program consists of artist studios, gallery, restaurant, nightclub, movie theater, outdoor performance stage, parking, and services for a total of 78,000 sq. ft. The design concept for this project focused on the permeability of extrinsic forces through the site. Forces such as people, vehicles, light, program, and the adjacent park all began to move through the building at various degrees based on program and site analysis. The location of the park as well as the majority of people, vehicles, and light entering through the west side causes the building to become light and highly permeable on the west side and heavy on the east side. The east façade becomes a concrete bearing wall which acts as a billboard communicating the program within to the city as well as a filter through which certain extrinsic forces extend towards or pass through.---- Sarah Boles 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, models.
