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Fabrication Incubator: generations generating With a focus on perpetuating light industrial trades through the creative exchange of digital and analogue production, this project seeks to transfer expertise across generations, foster an existing collection of young fabricators, and attract a future generation of innovators.
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‘12Parsons The New School for Design
Amy Jane Johnson
Master of Architecture
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S p r i n gResponding to a global departure from a veneration for the handmade, my thesis re-envisions an abandoned powerhouse as a home for a new craft-based, intergenerational community com-posed of:
: a series of leasable, shared workspaces and tools dedicated to woodworking and metalworking projects, particularly those requiring large-scale fabrication space: residences for selected apprentices and mentors, introducing an inventive live-work setting: a public educational program providing both the resources to support the development of young, local fabrication businesses as well as workshops and events geared towards curious neighbors
Situated along the Gowanus, this thesis hopes to stitch adja-cent residential and industrial neighborhoods back to the canal. Through a careful balance of circulations and proposed inter-actions, the facility will provide new opportunities for a public engagement of the working waterfront.
With a focus on perpetuating light industrial trades through the creative exchange of digital and analogue production, this project seeks to transfer expertise across generations, foster an existing collection of young fabricators, and attract a future generation of innovators.
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FABRICATION INCUBATOR:generations generating
Abandoned MTA PowerhouseGowanus CanalBrooklyn, NY
Thesis Advisors: Reid FreemanAstrid LipkaJing LiuPaul GoldbergerPeter WheelwrightMark Rakatansky
(January, 1902)
existing woodworkersexisting metalworkers
transportation analysis water analysis
LOCALCOMMUNITY
PUBLIC
USERS PROGRAM RESULTS
RESIDENTS
mentors apprentices
LOCAL ENTREPRENEURS
WOODWORKERS + METALWORKERS
• business exposure/growth
• improved craft
• connection to NYC
• potential for collaboration
• job placement
• access to workspace and equipment
• business mentoring
• private classes/lectures/events
• public classes/lectures/events
• exhibition space/store
TOOLS
STORAGE
OFFICE
STORAGE
EXHIBITIONWORKSTATIONS
CONFERENCE
MATERIALS LIBRARY
LECTURE HALL
MENTOR AND APPRENTICE RESIDENCES (2ND, 3RD, 4TH, 5TH FLOORS)
CLASSROOMS
COMPUTER LAB/CLASSROOM
MAIN LOUNGE
ENCLOSED TOOLS AND INFORMAL WORKSPACES
MENTOR AND APPRENTICE RESIDENCES (2ND, 3RD, 4TH, 5TH FLOORS)
SHARED KITCHEN
ENCLOSED TOOLS AND INFORMAL WORKSPACES
the history of industry + waterfront: can we reintroduce the public?
ground
01 (main entry)
02
03
3RD
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4TH
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NEV
INS
STRE
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BON
D S
TREE
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2ND
AVE
3RD STREET
6TH STREET
7TH STREET
CARROLL STREET
PRESIDENT STREET
PRESIDENT STREET
UNION STREET
SACKETT STREET
1ST STREET
1ST STREET
2ND STREET
workers residents
public goods
site circulation
residential studies
existing conditions
private/public workspaces with potential to expand into circulation
ground
utilize the existing gantry:
:move goods from ground floor to elevated workspaces through operable doors:provide additional, flexible workspace for large-scale projects:transport public throughout factory in small educational viewing groups
ground
workspace/circulation studies
BOAT DELIVERY
TRUCK DELIVERY
TRUCK PICKUP
final section renders
HEAVY/OPEN
LIGHT/ENCLOSED
cnc laser
primingpaintingfinishing
assemblingdryingsetting
SMALL SCALE
LARGE SCALE
drills + sawslathes
press breaks/ planers/shears
sanders/buffers
diagram: locations of work + tools:
proposed metal/wood facade
