IN SIGHT is a Rehab Center for Photography.
It is part of my Senior Design Thesis that I achieved in May 2015 at FIT in New York.
Located in the Delancey underground trolley terminal in Manhattan, the facility is a cultural offer to the photographic mission. It is to welcome all the activities for the practice and the diffusion of photographies. It also offers an escape of the over present social media by physically and emotionally disconnect and reconnect people with photography.
It is more than a museum. It is more than an institution, it is an experience. Visitors come here to discover and re-discover what make Photography so powerful.
Entrance Cube - located at the corner of Delancey Street and Norfolk Street. We can see the Exit Cube in the back.
The main design component of photography is light. It is also light that reveals and enhances architecture. Light would be an important design component in the facility, to translate the different phases of the experience, and to create filters all throughout the space.
Floor plan of the facility. Located underground and adjacent to the subway system.
Disconnection through Reconnection:
Disconnection from the photographic world, but also from our own misconception of it.
HOW: by analyzing and criticizing the current situation. Overwhelm. It includes the Entrance, the Lobby, and the First Gallery.
Entrance stairs
Section of the Entrance area where we can notice the connection with the street above but also with the subway system on the right.
Disconnection Lounge
Portal to access the gallery spaces
Disconnection gallery. To submerge and overflow the visitor with images.
Reset the expectations towards photography and our social interaction linked with it.
HOW: by completely withdrawing ourselves from that situtation. Cut. It includes the Void space, and the Maze.
The Reset Maze
Reconnection and reintegration in our society with a better understanding of photography.
HOW: by rebuilding a stronger foundation for a new and sustainable future situation. Reconstruction. It includes the Second Gallery, the Collab space, the Studios, the Lounge.
Reconnection gallery
The Blur Café
Reconnection Lounge
Cross section where we can see the connection between the spaces: Entrance Lounge on the left, the Blur Café in the middle, and Reconnection Lounge on the right.
The Take out store
Collaborative space
Collaborative space from one of the pods
Hallway and Skylight
Exit lounge with direct sunlight coming from above.
Section of the Exit area with the access to the street through a mechanical ramp.
The Exit ramp of the facility surrounded by a mix of mirrored and transculent glass to create a prism effect.
The Exit Cube - corner of Delancey Street and Clinton Street. We can see the Entrance in the back.
Fashion Institute of Technology - Senior Thesis Design Project
The goals are to confirm knowledge and comprehension of “Research-Based Design”, which reflects “Issue-Based Research”. Successful design projects are achieved only through this process which allows the designer in depth understanding of the project and its complexities.
The learning outcomes are to develop original and creative design solutions, expanded knowledge of the total design process and critical analysis, organize, plan and produce a Thesis Topic, using a proposed building/site as a focus for a design solution.
