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Cemetery in Mexico(Guanajuato)

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Sections! (still in prog)

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Aquaponic System Economic and Tank Strategy (by volume).

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Our analysis of flow on/through the Kingsbridge site:  

We used our graphic syntax to translate our understanding of existing conditions around the armory (such as degree of noise, visibility, proximity, stillness, porosity...).  This allowed us to project the spatial and programmatic conditions that must necessarily occur on property itself for funerary/market functions.

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Sacred Embedded in the Mundane III - creating a place for death and bereavement within the quotidian

The project activates the process of death through remembering. The street allows movement and moments of pause for memorializing with the city in tis constant background. 

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Sacred Embedded in the Mundane III - Creating a place for death and bereavement within the quotidian

The project is a vertical street. In wanting to create a true public place, the concept was to allow the street to continue into the building. The sidewalk continues vertically as it wraps around the building, lined with individual memorial markers on each side.

The vertical street is a slow pace public space that orients itself to the city. The street expands and contracts as it goes up and the copper memorials aggregate in different densities to create unique spaces for pause.  

A secular sacred space below is enveloped by the street.

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GSAPP Studio Rothstein FA2012 students enjoying Ann Hamilton's installation at the Park Avenue Armory 

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Studio Rothstein Final Presentation

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REMEMBRANCE FLOW

  The old Croton aqueduct has been decommissioned for over a century. Existing NYC cemeteries will reach capacity in the next 20 years. Forgotten underground tunnels provide space for an urban archive of human remains. Light counteracts the underground darkness in an archive that shifts and fills across centuries.

Water bears significant meaning in ritual and religious beliefs—its varied qualities offer comfort and emotional resonance. As a byproduct of resomation, returning sacred water to the aqueduct symbolizes infinite connection with past generations. The flow of time heals loss; the flow of water aids in letting go.

Responding to contextual circumstance, the archive is zoned for different stages of mourning.  Immersion in the memorial tunnel is an intimate experience with family. Emergence is a moment of release and reengagement into the metropolis. 

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Stealthy Memorials in privately owned public spaces

‘corporate 'private spaces' are requalified by certain 'private spaces' for memory and forgetting’

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This project celebrates temporality.  A network of human remains is situated in dialogue with the street and subway, bringing death into the everyday rhythm of the city, enriching life through an awareness of human finitude. Remains aggregate and disintegrate negotiating dramatic weather events and slow diurnal changes in light and temperature. This shifting urban memorial infrastructure calibrates material with nature, honoring the deceased while filtering and fortifying urban life through a storm water retention and flood prevention system. These structures transform the streetscape and trickle down into the subway, creating new public space underground.  

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Ann Hamilton's beautiful installation at Wade Thompson Drill Hall: "the event of a thread"...people participating on the swings cause the fabric to move!

It was the perfect hangout for our studio to celebrate semester's end.  

(more pictures of this, also coming soon...)

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Rendering of Ouroboros Project, from our final review!

More images coming soon :)

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SANCTIFYING INFRASTRUCTURE

Memorials and flood prevention in the subway.

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