Amazon.edu

Instructor: Felipe Correa
Location: New York, New York 
Term: Fall 2020
Team: Mary Key and Chenan Shen


Amazon.edu examines how the former Lord & Taylor Building can serve as an epicenter for a new educational model that capitalizes on partnerships between academia and tech industries. The proposal conceives a new civic space for the campus of the 21st century metropolis. The project argues that the common Privately Owned Public Spaces (POPS) Program in Manhattan can serve as the basis for a new space that links the academy with the many different publics that constitute the city. Adding a tapering tower to the existing Lord & Taylor building, the project negotiates between two critical spatial identities: the campus as a global brand versus the campus as the epicenter of a new common landscape. The typology of the tower and the atrium play a central role in synthesizing these two scales.