The Stitcher: A New Bridge for Washington D.C.
This project examines the existing urban conditions of Washington D.C., with specific interest in the disjunction between the existing urban framework of the iconic capital and an emerging development on the Washington channel.
Site Location: Washington, D.C.
Status: Academic Project
Status: Academic Project
Harvard Graduate School of Design (2019)
Spring Semester
Instructors: Grace La & James Dallman (LaDallman)
In response to the brief, ‘An Anamorphic Double’ the project problematizes the juxtaposition of the old, iconic D.C. and this new and rapid development at the D.C. wharf. The project questioned the notions of the iconic and concluded that (at least in D.C.) the iconic refers to architecture that was designed to be mono-functional, with formal expressions that serve a single program.
This idea of the ‘iconic’ does not match what is emerging in D.C. Wharf, both in its formal expression and programmatic use. D.C. Wharf is a real-estate development that is crammed with mixed-use programs from housing, office spaces, retail, and open urban spaces. This contrasting ideology between the singular and the hybrid is what the project navigates itself into, the proposal is intended to act as a graft mediator that negotiates two territories of different scales, density, and use.
