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UN v.2
(Team mate: Éole Hupé)
In this project, the keynote is to propose more public places on the site of the United Nations headquarters. The current inaccessibility to the site as well as the many negative messages conveyed by the Organization through it (paranoid security, multiple cameras, forbidden areas, etc.) tarnish its image of a universal human institution dedicated to the promotion of peace in the world. Towards a unifying collective project.Due to the significant immediate needs of the UN, the actual area should be tripled: headed for a new strengthened program (420 000m²). But how can we make the site denser? With a view to preserving the original spirit of “pure forms in open landscape”, the site should stay clear. Owing to the particular position of the site, on the bank of the East River, conquering the watercourse seems inescapable. The guiding principles of the design are the desire to stimulate the imaginary of the site with the use of the water, the idea to give back the bank to the visitors (and to the New Yorkers) and to increase the contact of people with the river. By building a spacious inhabited urban quay (inspired by the industrial past of New York), there is a willpower to offer the citizens and visitors an exceptional landscape as well as a unique 1.3km public walkway over the water.UN headquarters stand up to be admired: the monumentality of the complex and the creation of (new) accidents compared with the regularity of New York’s avenues make the site impossible to be missed. To assert the monumentality of the UN, the new Secretariat will be This form also proposes a visual continuity between the many buildings of the UN.The public environment (landscape) and the built environment are now united: union of the public environment (landscape) with the built environment. UN V.2 opens itself up to New Yorkers while maintaining its difference and limits. Towards a new global landmark.
In this project, the keynote is to propose more public places on the site of the United Nations headquarters. The current inaccessibility to the site as well as the many negative messages conveyed by the Organization through it (paranoid security, multiple cameras, forbidden areas, etc.) tarnish its image of a universal human institution dedicated to the promotion of peace in the world. Towards a unifying collective project.Due to the significant immediate needs of the UN, the actual area should be tripled: headed for a new strengthened program (420 000m²). But how can we make the site denser? With a view to preserving the original spirit of “pure forms in open landscape”, the site should stay clear. Owing to the particular position of the site, on the bank of the East River, conquering the watercourse seems inescapable. The guiding principles of the design are the desire to stimulate the imaginary of the site with the use of the water, the idea to give back the bank to the visitors (and to the New Yorkers) and to increase the contact of people with the river. By building a spacious inhabited urban quay (inspired by the industrial past of New York), there is a willpower to offer the citizens and visitors an exceptional landscape as well as a unique 1.3km public walkway over the water.UN headquarters stand up to be admired: the monumentality of the complex and the creation of (new) accidents compared with the regularity of New York’s avenues make the site impossible to be missed. To assert the monumentality of the UN, the new Secretariat will be This form also proposes a visual continuity between the many buildings of the UN.The public environment (landscape) and the built environment are now united: union of the public environment (landscape) with the built environment. UN V.2 opens itself up to New Yorkers while maintaining its difference and limits. Towards a new global landmark.
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