in collaboration with Dimitris Tsilimparis & Ion Sklavounos

 

A hackstand, the Highline promenade and a crowded avenue...

Not only the plot between 30,33 streets and 10,11 avenues, but the New York City as a whole is deeply affected by -if not formed by- the operation of networks. The lines and nodes of the given network -the railway- have been the compositional axis and starting points for the design of the New York Theatre City.

 

The NYTC program is dispersed in a system of zoning, parallel to the railway lines, moving from entirely public (33st), to almost private (30st). Intending to take advantage of the hackstand's characteristics, a part of the existing rails and wagons, is being reused, either as a space for plantation, either as theatre park facilities, such as the park administration, or the secondary showrooms box offices.

 

Rails raised from the ground shape shells for showrooms and rehearsals, blinds and sunshades. Trees are being planted in the traces left by removed rails. A new enviroment emerges, from the old hackstand...

The "Railscape Theatre Park

 

... Organization of space according to the campus model

... Compositional design according to the railway operational logic

... The railway network as a symbol for the NYC urbanism