YUDI CHEN
The location I choose is in the lower Manhattan where is the financial area. This is a figure ground drawing of the Hamilton U.S Custom House in New York that incorporates Beaux Arts and City Beautiful movement planning principles, combining architecture, engineering, and fine arts. It faces inland toward Bowling Green. It has seven stroies and there are six entrances to the building. The inside is National Museum of the American Indian which strives toward equity and social justice for the Native peoples of the Western Hemisphere through education, inspiration and empowerment. The main entrance is through a wide, centrally located stairway on the northern elevation of the building.
This aerial view shows the city block between Bowling Green, The Battery Park, and New York Film Academy. The highlighted building is Hamilton U.S Custom House which is National Museum of the American Indian inside the building. The structure fills out the city block with a seven stories street wall and the public area that outside is Bowling Green that is the oldest park, what is known as the landmark of New York.
This drawing shows key characteristics of the city block between Bowling Green, The Battery Park, and New York Film Academy including hard landscaping (road, pedestrian walkway) and soft landscaping (green space, gardens) creating a typical streetscape. Vehicular circulation traverses roads of varying widths. Each intersection has crosswalk lines and bollards on curbs. In the main avenue, there are boundaries to define the Battery Park and the road, the lampposts are on the each side of road.
This Actor-Network map traces the basic information of the Hamilton U.S Custom House in New York, such as building facts, building history, and significant events. Also, due to the inside of the building is National Museum of the American Indian, it also traces the basic information of the museum, such as exhibitions, public programs, and Mili Kàpi that is the cafe inside the museum. The surrounding environment is also the important factors that affect the Hamilton U.S Custom House. The Battery Park is 25-acre (10 ha) public park located at the southern tip of Manhattan Island in New York City facing New York Harbor. It is bounded by Battery Place on the north, State Street on the east, New York Harbor to the south, and the Hudson River to the west. The New York Film Academy was founded in 1992 by Jerry Sherlock, a former film, television and theatre producer. It was originally located at the Tribeca Film Center. And the Bowling Green is a small public park in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan, New York City, at the southern end of Broadway. Located next to the site of the original Dutch fort of New Amsterdam, it served as a public place before being designated as a park in 1733. It is the oldest public park in New York City and is surrounded by its original 18th-century fence. After that, it has dense traffic around the building. The Downtown Alliance provides a free bus service that runs along North End Avenue and South End Avenue, connecting the various residential complexes with subway stations on the other side of West Street. Due to this very dense city block, the human activities in this city block become the very important role. The food area that is Mili Kàpi is only located on the second floor of the museum which is inconvenient for people to have the food if the people are on the outside. The museum store is also inside the museum and the it has less human activites in the outside public area which should be not ignored it.
Due to the ignore of human activities in this city block, this image shows an alternative set of activities including fruit stand, crepe cart, and more ethnically diverse set of pedestrians. Some people are sitting under the tree to look at the sunset and the stage performance at night. In addition, during the sunset, it has some people who is riding the bicycle, and the working people is walking across the road and waiting for the car. In addtion, it has some detailed decoration on the wall of the museum such as "Welcome" poster that encourage people to go inside the museum to look at the history. Also, the texture of the grass and the stage of performance at night creates a warmer and more festive atmosphere in front of the museum. This reimagining of the space transforms the solemn landscape of National Museum of the American Indian into a more inviting scene populated in leisure activities.