This project sorrounds around The Flatiron district and the buidling behind its name. The diagrammatic effect created by Flatiron buiding from every angles.The images it creates its viewed from and exploding that in lines and how the effect of an irregular shape creates an illusion to form distorted perspectives.
The neighbourhood is important for the flatiron building. After the building was made there were numerous upscale shop and restaurants that opened up and making flatiron district what it is today. The location with the madison square garden, open public-plaza, vehicular and pedestrian traffic, making it upbeat throughout the day. The distorted proportions created an opportunity to create an extension on top of the building while maintaining sculptural and romantic aspect of the building. The extension on the top is composite for clear glass and glass block which gives an illusion of a floatiing space above flatiron building without disturbing any of its social context.
The architecture takes the triangular shape of the flat iron building and flips it on top of the buiding, tapering outwards into the sky. The alternative use of glass block an glass makes the building less permeable and maintains constant variation in visual barriers from a distance. The extension would be center for an multimedia advertisement agency which recreate the various media elements when infused into the context of new york on top of the flat iron buildng making its location peak point for locals as well as tourist wandering into the city.
This kind of extension not only maintains the old sanctity of new york as icon but also creates al illusion of an architecture that is just an after thought and something that gets merged into the sky.
Flatiron II – The Extension This project sorrounds around The Flatiron district and the buidling behind its name. The diagrammatic effect created by Flatiron buiding from every angles.The images it creates its viewed from and exploding that in lines and how the effect of an irregular shape creates an illusion to form distorted perspectives.