About
Designer
My name is Carlos T. Acosta Pérez. I'm a Puerto Rican native with a Bachelor's in Environmental Design from the University of
Puerto Rico and an M.Arch Graduate from Pratt Institute. Currently, I'm living in New York City & an Adjunct Faculty Visiting Professor at NYIT School of Architecture. My approach to architecture and design generally focuses on speculating and questioning the purpose of the artifacts and spaces surrounding us, using alternative materials and fabrication methods that better reflect on being environmentally responsive and adaptable.
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Puerto Rico and an M.Arch Graduate from Pratt Institute. Currently, I'm living in New York City & an Adjunct Faculty Visiting Professor at NYIT School of Architecture. My approach to architecture and design generally focuses on speculating and questioning the purpose of the artifacts and spaces surrounding us, using alternative materials and fabrication methods that better reflect on being environmentally responsive and adaptable.
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Partner: Sirinya Wutthilaohaphan
Terra Nova Skyscraper
Synopsis:
The skyscraper typology has made it possible to duplicate and compress the presence of population in a city while having a small percentage of sprawling but in the process has lost and obligated their inhabitants to live a certain way, limiting diverse lifestyles to mass produce units throughout the building. What if we part from the creation of a diverse unit that answers to the diversity of the inhabitants as it goes upwards? What if instead of developing a building all throughout in one go it is developed by phases as the inhabitant decides to come? Thus the Terra Nova Skyscrapers. A building made to change and work for its user and in the process be able to adapt for the times and usage.
The skyscraper typology has made it possible to duplicate and compress the presence of population in a city while having a small percentage of sprawling but in the process has lost and obligated their inhabitants to live a certain way, limiting diverse lifestyles to mass produce units throughout the building. What if we part from the creation of a diverse unit that answers to the diversity of the inhabitants as it goes upwards? What if instead of developing a building all throughout in one go it is developed by phases as the inhabitant decides to come? Thus the Terra Nova Skyscrapers. A building made to change and work for its user and in the process be able to adapt for the times and usage.
Location:
256-284 Flatbush Ave Ext, Brooklyn, NY 11201
256-284 Flatbush Ave Ext, Brooklyn, NY 11201
Utility:
Complex,
Residential-Office
Complex,
Residential-Office
Collaborator:
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