Moi-Nous-Vous Final
CHAMPAGNE, Frédéric. LEMONDE-CORNELLIER, Alexis. PARADIS, Guy-David.
L'esquisse La phase urbaine La phase architecturale Le projet final
Moi-Nous-Vous
Experimenting with ice, we observed that melting revealed simple forms with reflective and colorful possibilities. Droplets transformed the solid particles: the container became the content. What was sealed in the ice got captured in water basins. Under the light, the atmosphere was transformed as the basin spread its spectrum of colors. Me - Us - Them transposes these observations. What if the courtyards evoked atmospheres? What if living spaces emerged from the remaining ice volume? What if a glazed structure could recreate the dynamism found in the cavities sculpted by erosion?
Inspiration
Développement du projet
Before parking lots, towers, reforms and demolitions; the Lower-East Side held a different image. It carried stories of refugees, artists, communities, which together contributed to new and innovative ways of thinking, making, creating. ME - US - THEM breaks away from the ever-growing scission of social classes to showcase the identity of the neighborhood. Boundaries are blurred. The different parts of the Program are meant to feel connected and accessible either from the streets or the upper levels. Street level is permeable. The structure and openness of the courtyards reveal the life inside the polycarbonate and glass shell; the museum is visible and connected. The market is linked to the Lowline and to gardens where residents produce fresh food.
Plans
Axonométrie éclatée
Plans logements types
Coupe logements et marché
Coupe musée
Détail
ME - US - THEM uses a simplified structural pattern to support affordable transversal housing. The rational use of CLT reduces the material and the cost of the units. The glazed structure serves as a buffer zone to reduce energy consumption and help offer net-zero apartments while also protecting the wood and reducing the need for maintenance. As low income households, students and elders alike might go for micro-units; common spaces are created in between bearing walls to counterbalance the dimensions of some apartments and show diversity throughout the system. The project includes a park and a pool on its rooftops. Terraces and gardening units are positioned in front of apartments so residents can express their personality.
Photos de maquettes
Coupe perspective
Ambiances
ME - US - THEM defines two singular spaces recognizable from a pedestrian perspective. Positioned at one extremity of the Williamsburg Bridge, the Essex market welcomes workers and locals. It offers an open space, full of life, greeneries, scents and noises. It is a vision of community life and a breathing lung, free from the concrete jungle cities. On the opposite side, the Warhol Museum contrasts the bustling market with a silent cloister-like courtyard washed by the rain. Open to contemplation, it offers balance to the project. As said by Andy Warhol:
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«The way life works, people usually wind up either in crowded subways and elevators, or in big rooms all by themselves. Everybody should have a big room they can go to and everybody should also ride the crowded subways.»
With markets on one side and restaurants on the other, the Norfolk Street has been made pedestrian and is active day and night. The architecture of the buildings gives a sense of proximity, the passer-by feeling as much inside as outside.
Percées sur la cour intérieure
Perspective de nuit, coin Essex-Delancey
