miami FLORIDA & new york NEW YORK

NYC CASINO/CONVENTION CENTER COMPETITION
First place — $1200

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

alex LOZANO & reynolds DIAZ jr.: In recent years Manhattan’s lower West Side has undergone radical urban transformations. Perhaps the most influential addition to this part of the urban fabric has been the Highline Elevated Park; a melting pot of diverse activities. Thus extending this dynamic chamber of locals, artist, tourist and night-life enthusiast was an essential component to the proposal. Moreover, catalyzing these synergizes throughout the site emerge fields of landscape diversities. In this landscape, people can recreate, farm, lounge, gather or stroll for a casual walk.

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miami FLORIDA

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

alex LOZANO: the project explores ideas of prosthetic architecture. prosthetics can be subdivided into two categories: 1) those that rehabilitate and 2) those that enhance. the idea of prosthesis sets up an interesting situation which questions the boundaries between existing private areas and adjacent proposed public programs. prosthetic architecture has the ability to “cut out” detrimental facades and compromised structure and replaces them with a new formal species which will set up a dialogue between old and new.

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