Taking Buildings Down - Competition. 2016
Since the arrival of the Dutch, Manhattan’s transformation has largely been shaped by man. We are proposing a more natural but radical method of transformation, by allowing time to be the facilitator of the natural weathering and gradual demolition process.
As building density gradually decays, pre-existing and buried natural forms begin to re-emerge, revealing the past as it were, the present transformed, and visions of a more verdant and re-contextualized future.