Metadata
Title
Athenaeum Looking Forward
Creator
Sgrazzutti, Francesco
Scarabello, Giuseppe
Vazquez, Ariel
Location
Philadelphia, PA, USA
Date Created
2014
Call Number
005-LF-P036
Category
Professional
Project Assumption
2050. World’s cultural institutions like the Athenaeum are at the forefront of sustainable practices that educate and involve the collectivity.
Digital storage restitutes to humans most space once reserved for books and drawings, while indexed catalogs and search capabilities at infinite speed create time for humanistic activities ranging from individual to collective, leading to a renaissance of architectural typologies like the cloister, the forum, the stoa.
Freed from the constraint of a digital interface, architects return to free hand sketching and modeling. Computers adapt to their design process and take care of digitalization from conception to construction and recording.
Digital storage restitutes to humans most space once reserved for books and drawings, while indexed catalogs and search capabilities at infinite speed create time for humanistic activities ranging from individual to collective, leading to a renaissance of architectural typologies like the cloister, the forum, the stoa.
Freed from the constraint of a digital interface, architects return to free hand sketching and modeling. Computers adapt to their design process and take care of digitalization from conception to construction and recording.
Project Statement
In our proposal this renaissance of typologies is reinterpreted in the new tower and in the revisited landscape of Washington square, where web enhanced activities, ranging from individual study to creative networking and social happenings will take place.
The world cities’ resolution to cut water consumption in half by 2070 is embraced by Philadelphia where the second phase of the Athenaeum project includes public baths modeled on Caracalla’s thermae.
The infrastructural revolution leading to the rational distribution of fundamental services, along with the intimate and collective use of the baths, express the essence of a new and sustainable urbanity.
The world cities’ resolution to cut water consumption in half by 2070 is embraced by Philadelphia where the second phase of the Athenaeum project includes public baths modeled on Caracalla’s thermae.
The infrastructural revolution leading to the rational distribution of fundamental services, along with the intimate and collective use of the baths, express the essence of a new and sustainable urbanity.
Registration Number
46188132