GENTRIFICATION
MEMORIAL
INSTALLATIONS
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New York City, NY
 GentrificationThe Conflict of Urban Development and Decay |  Installation ContextMeatpacking District, New York City |  The Hudson YardsWest Curve of The Highline |
|---|---|---|
 Brand Take OverWashington Street and West 13th Street |  Starchitect CommissionWashington Street and Gansevoort Street |  The Corner of Change9th Avenue and 14th Street |
 The Switch9th Avenue and West 13th Street |  Cultural RemnantsWashington Street and Little West 12th Street |  Death by Dining9th Avenue and West 13th Street |
 Site Collage |
Memorialize
Format: This was an independent project within a class of thirteen students. The class spent one week in Washington, D.C. and New York City to study memorials and to locate potential project sites.
The length of the class was sixteen weeks during which we experimented with collage as a means of expression for both concept and process to inform or to become a proposal of design.
Change is inevitable. Architects make their living from it. Architecture will not provide the solution to gentrification; perhaps it has the potential to memorialize it, to pose questions, or to start a conversation.
Memorial reveals itself as an appropriate typology for the discussion. The installations have a subtle bias as the project is about engagement to ask the
viewer a question or prod an alternate perception to the surroundings.