This design for New York headquarters for the Center for Advancement of Science in Space sees diverse program as an opportunity for CASIS to display its people, operations, and products, and increase corporate transparency to the public. A large wall, containing service and structure, bisects the site, consolidating private program to the south, and public program to the north, oriented towards a large public park. A series of continuous projections push through this wall, carrying public program into the private zone, and private program into the public. Linked by a continuous circulation system of public ramps, culminating in a conference center and auditorium at the top, visitors are given constant opportunities to view and interact with the private workings of CASIS. A unified exterior shell encases the building, creating tension where projections break through to offer further transparency to the public.
Critic Joel Sanders | Fall 2013
