THESIS — nourbannout

NOUR BANNOUT

DIALOGUES: INTERIOR ARCHITECTURE OF A RUIN
This thesis examines the deterioration of the Roosevelt Island Small Pox Hospital in New York City. The existing site’s grid, broken and exposed of solids and voids, was used to inform the placement of “puzzle pieces” to reimagine and preserve the ruin as an artifact. The idea of creating dialogue is the central theme in exploring strategies and concepts that lead users to unconventional connections. Juxtaposition is embedded, sculpture, furniture and architecture are blurred. Every piece of furniture and sculpture was designed based on the language of the interventions and ruin.

Precedent Studies: Wassily Kandinsky’s, “Point and Line to Plane”, the De Stijl movement, Bernard Tschumi, Louise Nevelson, Mark Di Suvero, Carlo Scarpa, Alexander Calder, Donald Judd, Carl Andre, etc.

Themes: Historical Preservation, Adaptive Reuse interventions, Interior and exterior thresholds, lifecycle of a ruin, programmatic uses (Chapel, Museum, Cafe, Sculpture Park, Library, Classrooms), The ruin as a symbol and a site.

Material restraints for the architectural intervention: corteen steel

Software used: Rhino, Enscape, Autocad, Adobe Suite

MFA THESIS
PRATT INSTITUTE, 2024

Roosevelt Island Small Pox Hospital before and in its current condition

Exploded Axonometric of existing ruin condition showing solids/voids

Plan study of intervention placements

Third Fl - interior ruin wall with corteen steel intervention and mullion glass roof.

Third Fl - interior ruin wall supported by floor plates, mullion window intervention where existing wall would have been.

Third Fl - library with glass floor to communicate with floors below. Classroom n corteen steel intervention with openings mimicking broken walls.

Third Fl - Corteen steel intervention exhibition space with windows as and circulation thresholds as new apertures to the space.

First Fl - Interior ruin walls supported by embedded church pews, Chapel and gallery with custom pews, seating and display.

First Fl - Cafe with custom furniture, below the glass floor that communicates to the third floor.

Furniture Designed - Pews and Chairs

Exterior Elevation Sketch

Exploded Axonometric