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 Savvas Sarafidis The Fallen Skyscraper As a graduate student in Fall 1998 at Columbia University (NY), Sarafidis experimented with design. The subject of the experiment and the project was the relocation of the New York Stock Exchange combined with a proposal of artistic development in downtown Manhattan. This video represents the result of the project and its final presentation. If all urban phenomenon are regulated by the "abstract machine" that is money, following a numerical course it is possible for an architect to assume this principle as design logic: that numbers are everything! The built structure was thus conceived as a self-organized and self-developing system in that it could bend according to physical or abstract (numbers) forces: the essence of the architect. Chaos and the numerical aspect has been the consideration of directly related to the use of fractures. Through the application of software which enables the elaboration of fractured numerical structures and working in part on the elaboration of Koolhaas' Downtown Athletic Club, a three-dimensional "external skeleton" which modifies itself according to the changes in urban activity. The final objective is to transfer these results to a more realistic dimension in order to obtain hybrid spaces organized by networks and hierarchies which can be developed through a unique system of self-organization. Savvas Sarafidis works as an architect and designer in New York after a bright beginning of his career in Athens and the United States. He initiated his studies at the National Tech University in Athens and he later pursued a masters degree in the Science of Architecture and Urban Design at Columbia University in New York. Sarafidis has always pursued his interest in the problems related to urbanism, either regarding public spaces or the construction of large residential complexes in urban areas like Manhattan. Information on Sarafidis and his and his portfolio can be seen at http://www.columbia.edu/~sps31 |
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