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WIP Yilan House

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ongoing hotel design

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one year

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Thanksgiving trip

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Frank Gehry’s skyscraper, the city’s tallest residential building, is known as the ‘ripple’ or the ‘rippling building’ - it looks to mirror the East River. I like to call it the ‘wibbly-wobbly’, for obvious reasons. 

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Variation in the loop, subtlety.

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Invisible influence between vacant house and homeless people.

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Spatial Economic Efficiencies of Columbaria vs. Cemetery Plots | Multiple Metrics of Measure

In New York City, there are three types of burial strategies, which are traditional cemeteries, underground vault cemeteries, and Columbaria, with each typology strongly relating to their context. Traditional cemeteries are predominantly located in the outer boroughs, while the last two types lie within the Manhattan. The goal of this research is to explore the relationship of each typology’s organizational structure in relation to the urban fabric. In order to understand the interrelationship and efficiencies of each strategy, the research will be approached from the following angles:

The context and history of each typology in relation to when they were built to their present use.

The efficiencies of each burial strategy, such as the quantities and the density of dead bodies stored per area.

Overlapping of this research with our individual networks (i.e. Commercial, Transportation and Vacant Properties)

We observed how each typology was affected by its urban context in time. Expansive traditional cemeteries were affected by the abundance of land and lower land values in the outer boroughs when they were established, while the Manhattan, with it’s high property values, allowed for more efficient solutions like the Columbaria. We also observed how cemeteries today have overlapping functions with public and commercial uses, some have become extensions of public spaces.  Through studying densities of each type per square meter in parallel with similarly organized urban typologies, we hope to explore new burial solutions for future urban conditions.

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reverse of volume RG, the installation uses a process Oishi calls “casting the invisible.” 2012

Yasuaki Oishi