GRIDS & IDENTITIES

This museum project is located adjacent to the Lincoln Center in NYC. It aims to subvert existing power structures axiologically and urbanistically by creating a plan based on natural water systems overtime. Such system allows my building to resemble a shoal, diverting the way bodies of Amsterdam Houses move through former San Juan Hill and the current Lincoln Center. How can socially-constructed boundaries dictate migration? How might architecture subvert that? This "subversion" occurs through the disruption of societally-implemented grids that have inherently forced migration on inhabitants of NYC. Historical water flows, synthesized with the Manhattan grid and a semi-permeable archival core, inform circulation and form and shift the institutionally exclusive Lincoln Center into one that is inclusive and socially responsible.