PROCESSED

Yale School of Architecture | Fall 2017 | Emily Abruzzo

Second Year Studio: Bronx Ferry Terminal and Food Incubator

Design of a Bronx-based NYC ferry terminal, food incubator, marketplace, and warehouse facility for Clason Point, a proposed route extension of the NYC Ferry system

THE NEED FOR ‘PROCESS’ ARCHITECTURE

Contemporary economic solutions often favor a ‘generic’ formal approach to programmatic and distribution efficiency in architectural design, as seen for example in the open-plan layouts of modern Amazon sorting facilities.

In proposing an architectural solution for a ferry terminal, marketplace, food incubator, and cold storage facility on Clason Point, instead I argue for the use of a performative ‘process’ based architectural language, designed to accommodate directionality, workflows, and varied speeds of travel to achieve a space which eliminates programmatic collisions. Rather, such a strategy can offer unhindered parallel flows of traffic, goods, and services ripe with opportunity for interaction.

The following proposal was designed through a series of careful mappings, diagrams, and models concerning the workflow, circulation, and orientation of program and site.

early diagrammatic overlays

initial study models

formalized axes of circulation

daylight studies

resulting Ferry terminal design