Conceptual Design of a Skyscraper on 43 Broad Street in New York

Broad Street, one of the oldest streets in New York, is located in the Financial District, a neighbourhood which was one of the few in Manhattan without large number of full-time residents and has long been a neighborhood ghost town at the later hours with no established community.

Several works form Jason M. Barr, a professor of economics at Rutgers University-Newark, New Jersey, are presented where through several examples it is observed that the economic and demographic activities are the main factors that create the demand for the rise of skyscrapers, and that there is a strong racional behind them. It establishes the frame for construction of a skyscraper in a highly dense urban area.

A skyscraper is proposed as a responce to the demand for the fastest growing residential neighbourhood in New York City, the Financial District. The result is a mix-use skyscraper that aims to develop the communal life, and at the same time, respond to the demands of the current realestate market by offering specter of possible residential units.

The central concern of the master thesis, is how to design a skyscraper as an architectural phenomenom that emerges from the surrounding context.