inward inwood

Columbia GSAPP Core I | Fall 2018
Studio Critic: Josh Uhl

Tracing the history of land occupation from the Lenape Native Americans, to the Dutch, to present-day Inwood, land and water redistribution has played a huge role in the partition of space and the building of new infrastructure.

As a response to the prompt “Grand Interior”, this intervention serves as a physical and psychological confrontation of flood water rise in Inwood. The excavation between buildings and embedded hydropump system serve as a method to capture, redirect, and alleviate overflowing water, while the spiraling structure within should be understood as a spacial statement and symbol of impermanence; a reminder of a flawed urban and global history and trajectory towards global warming.