5 Plates

The weekend has been spent re-visiting the re-brief.  To ensure a concise story is told of re-briefing the Rockefeller Center in the words of Exodus "Exodus to the Mountain", I've looked at five key successes of the Rockefeller Center, and the principals Raymond Hood had in building this micro city. These five successes will become five plates.  Each plate will show one square mile of Manhattan reconfigured to allow for the particular success to grow within; transforming that square mile into a micro city of the whole.  Each square mile will be positioned around an existing center relating to it. These five micro cities will grow within their notional boundary, forming a clear distinction between the New and Old; the Good Half and the Bad Half.  The overwhelming attraction of these micro cities will see a mass Exodus of the Old Manhattan.  And so the journey begins.

1. Grid Erasure; insertion of the plaza
2. Programmatic Schism; stacking programme and congestion
3. Factory of Indulgence; the power of a craze
4. Infrastructural AntiGrid; connections against the grid
5. Augmented Gardens; hanging gardens of Manhattan

Each plate will be a perspective showing part of the whole square mile. A montage of the Good Half.