The concept of drawing multiple disparate audiences onto a single platform demands a variety of programmatic impetus. Utilizing programs that not only appeal to particular audiences, but also vary in terms of the period of usage, promotes the desired interference of unrelated elements on the selected site. This interference is productive of an urban theater itself, while also introducing other platforms that literally translate into a performance space and undirectly program open space.
Translating Chemistry.com into an architecture that deals with the interchange of disparate parties is most productive on a dormant tabula rasa site that is activated by the programs and self-represetations of the structure itself. The programs set within this site must be an ironic juxtaposition of elements working in calculated spatial interchange.
The predominance of subsidized housing facilities lining the FDR as well as the large influx of people moving across the Williamsburg bridge calls for program specific to these parties, as well as engaging local unsubsidized residents and the city-wide population. Citing four main programs - performance theater, an ESL facility, bike shop/rental, informal public space - activates the site and offers different portals through which the architecture is occupied.
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