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Parásitos Agglomeration


Adaptive Reuse // Housing











CORE 601: SHIFTING HYBRIDS
Location: Financial District, New York City, NY
Instructed by Hina Jamelle
Individual Project, FA 2022


“Almost All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites, or sub-parasites.”    -William Shakespeare


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The Corbin building, a historical office building located in the Financial District of Manhattan in New York City, shows its unique attitude toward the surrounding by holding its unique beauty of the facade with rounded arches and terracotta ornamentation. The project takes the “parasite” strategy to allow the new formation to gradually grow along with the existing; through the invasion, the formation intends to continue the original beauty of the building. Two new system derives from the system of the old facade, the new brick gently grafts on the existing brick while introducing the oblique view of the city, and the red metal frame starts evolving around the brick to form shading, railing, window framing, living on its host (the existing) and aiming to create a smooth transition and dialogue between the new and the old of the building.



[Renderings]

︎[Renderings]-Broad St. Facade Formation
︎[Renderings]-Corner View
︎[Renderings]-John St. Night Corner View
︎[Renderings]-Exterior Environment Urban Condition
︎[Renderings]-Exterior Environment Urban Condition


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Several interrelationships along with the interior organization is studied, including overlapping, interlocking, branching.

Through these relationships, both the plan and elevation reflect varied cluster of units. In addition, the cluster strategy opens the opportunity to have the dialogue between the housing unit and public common. 



[Drawings]

︎[Drawings]-Typical Floor Plan/Unit Interrelationships
︎[Drawings]-Plan Detail Zoomed In
︎[Drawings]-Ground Floor Plan


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Performing art spaces are introduced into the project, a cultural facility that is easily accessible to not only the residents but also the public. Taking the role of connector, spatial divider and urban void, the public not only creates the void across multiple levels to engage with the public stage, but also communicates with the private living space by pushing it to form varied scaled clusters of housing units.



[Drawings]

︎[Drawings]-Longitudinal Section
︎[Drawings]-Section Detail Zoomed In
︎[Drawings]-Section Detail Zoomed In

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