IRREGULAR TYPOLOGIES
During her time at the harvard gsd, tricia looked at the atlantic yards lot - ahead of the development of barclay's center - as an area for massive housing and community mixed-use development. creating a flexible structural system with the ability to fit into the strenuous site conditions posed by tight corners, holdout buildings and bifurcating roads, The development strategy must possess the ability to deform while maintaining a visual continuity throughout. utilizing A typical folded plate system in which plates simply weave in and out of each other - each building has the ability to bend and flex in the x and y direction, but only via a uniform scalar deformation of both plates. Modifying this system through a perpendicular turn of one plate, permits the two to act with a higher degree of independence within the constraints posed by the other folded plate.
Splitting the site into equal segments based on square footage, a pattern of bilateral symmetry and seriality is revealed. These bilaterally symmetrical plots are treated as mirror images of each other at the base, but as the towers rise, the uniform constraint at the upper floor results in an atypical form in each block.
