Harlem R.I.D.G.E.

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1/9d

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Cultural › Cultural Center
Educational › Other
Government + Health › Community Center
Landscape + Planning › Public Park Urban Green Space Masterplan
Transport + Infrastructure › Marina and Ports Highway Bicycles

CODEX: Instructional Manual for the Harlem Edge

Harlem has been defined through several boom and bust cycles defining ethnic and urban shifts of the community. Creating the image and diverse Harlem community that is known today. Harlem has become an influence on the city's culture, creating a center of artistic and professional expression. The evolution of Harlem has affected how we use our public spaces to how the area should be developed; influencing how we use the urban grid and manipulate it.

Using the historic grid of Harlem, RIDGE creates an organization for the proposed project. Not only is the grid taken into account, but the public spaces, infrastructure, contours, adjacent neighborhoods, and of course the Harlem Edge. Utilizing the grids RIDGE creates an instructional manual of how to form the project, a Codex; ultimately seeking connections with Harlem's history and culture.

Connecting Harlem to the Edge: The Visual Approach

Existing Infrastructures have deprived the Harlem edge from effective development. RIDGE establishes a visual connection rooting back to Harlem by utilizing the surrounding conditions to bring the grid to the site in the form of a codex. This helps create an extension based on a theoretical extended grid. Then divided into two components and finally into three main parts.

Project Sector Details

The codex is manipulated via swelling, lifting, and rotating based on program insertion and location ultimately creating architecture unique only to the Harlem edge. These manipulations serve as an abstraction of how Harlem has boomed, shifted, and renewed itself throughout the years. RIDGE becomes the last layer of the site's dense infrastructure. RIDGE is an infrastructure of a new view of Harlem public activity intertwined with landscape, agricultural development, and most importantly a programmatic stadium where the view and connection with the water is the main event.