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extending beyond the building enriches the site
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The Fort Lauderdale Environmental Research institute emerges from the idea that extending beyond the site dissolves the realm of the private building to the benefit of its public context. This gesture of reaching out allows a rapid integration and revitalization of an industrial area of Fort Lauderdale, by constructing public space envisioned to overcaome the challenge of man-made polar melting and ocean level rise.
The proposed elevated walkways provide multi-level connections between the building and the street, as well as over the railroad and into the currently decaying public park, just west of the site. These links seek to remove blight and barriers from the railway. There emerges a symbiotic opportunity to the neighboring art galleries to further become nodes of activity, the art movement specific to the neighboring FAT arts district being catalyst of possibilities for urban engagement. Conceived from this reaching out, the building itself calls upon earlier examinations of the concepts of abandoned/ constructed/ cleared site.
The project exploits the expression of a relationship which is inverse, the negation of the typical relationships where the building shapes the public space, and instead, allows the public space to shape it.
The proposed elevated walkways provide multi-level connections between the building and the street, as well as over the railroad and into the currently decaying public park, just west of the site. These links seek to remove blight and barriers from the railway. There emerges a symbiotic opportunity to the neighboring art galleries to further become nodes of activity, the art movement specific to the neighboring FAT arts district being catalyst of possibilities for urban engagement. Conceived from this reaching out, the building itself calls upon earlier examinations of the concepts of abandoned/ constructed/ cleared site.
The project exploits the expression of a relationship which is inverse, the negation of the typical relationships where the building shapes the public space, and instead, allows the public space to shape it.