By combining the public and private functions, my guild hall features an institute for climate and riparian research. Research includes specifically the study of the changes which affect the sea levels and systemic issues, pushing for resiliency from a sustainable standpoint. The public spaces are located above and next to the park allowing for maximum communication and optimization of activity. The research facilities are located on the urban Bowery side of the site allowing for maximum height and space for laboratories. The public is brought above and can look down onto the research facilities promoting education of the community, the youth and the generatl public. Workers at the labs can daily travel down to the subway on their commutes to and from their homes. The public side of the building can travel up the building to look down the park, even stopping to join the researchers in the hall for a lecture. The driver of form of the floor plates and the spaces is the light entering the space in the later day, from the west, the most urban side of the site (most subjected to shadow). The inclusion on the park all the way along Bowery side of the site allows for the life of the park to reach the more urban and dense areas of city, hopefully promoting increasing biodiversity. The communication of spaces to the angled and sloping walls disconnects the division of public and private spaces, allowing of all to look down upon the park (public and forward facing). Facade decisions came from several case studies from the Rosethal Center by Zaha Hadid Architects featuring a facade that travels in and out. Inspired, the guild serves as a place for those all with inventivecirculation ideas.
