Pruitt Igoe Now
Pruitt + Igoe = NOW
JOSE PEREIRA
3/15/2012
The major objective of our proposal is to give new life to this space. The best way is to bring the existing town (and well-consolidated) for this area.
One of the strategies, the most immediate, is to extend: 22nd Street, 23rd Street, 25th Street and Phipps Street. After that, and since the land is divided into three parts, the option was to use the central part to integrate a building that would serve as a memorial to what existed. This building is a museum bridge, all-glass, which stalks the city and recalls past memories of what Pruitt Igoe had better.
Thus, the implementation is exactly the same as the building that was there. On the other hand, laterally, we designed an orthogonal grid, with identical blocks and in which the logic of the building is always the same: the ground floor is intended to trade, all next three floors are for residential use and some of the blocks that are delimited by main avenues have another 3 or 4 floors of offices that are working day and night.
In contrast with all this metric, we created cubes mismatched with the same volume as the interior blocks.
With regard to materiality, the residential floors are made of brick, like the surrounding buildings. But, for the trading floors and offices are made of glass and concrete and mark the return of modernity to this site.
The highlight in the general idea is the union of the tallest buildings, achieved thanks to the remarkable building that connects with the Pruitt Igoe...NOW
Pruitt + Igoe = NOW
JOSE PEREIRA
3/15/2012
The major objective of our proposal is to give new life to this space. The best way is to bring the existing town (and well-consolidated) for this area.
One of the strategies, the most immediate, is to extend: 22nd Street, 23rd Street, 25th Street and Phipps Street. After that, and since the land is divided into three parts, the option was to use the central part to integrate a building that would serve as a memorial to what existed. This building is a museum bridge, all-glass, which stalks the city and recalls past memories of what Pruitt Igoe had better.
Thus, the implementation is exactly the same as the building that was there. On the other hand, laterally, we designed an orthogonal grid, with identical blocks and in which the logic of the building is always the same: the ground floor is intended to trade, all next three floors are for residential use and some of the blocks that are delimited by main avenues have another 3 or 4 floors of offices that are working day and night.
In contrast with all this metric, we created cubes mismatched with the same volume as the interior blocks.
With regard to materiality, the residential floors are made of brick, like the surrounding buildings. But, for the trading floors and offices are made of glass and concrete and mark the return of modernity to this site.
The highlight in the general idea is the union of the tallest buildings, achieved thanks to the remarkable building that connects with the Pruitt Igoe...NOW