How can we generate architecture that connects back to the public? This proposal, a new office for the Municipal Art Society of New York, strives to connect the city to the building through perimeter voids. Two overlapping cuts separate a floor plate into distinct zones.
The diagonal cuts produce an intersection of daily life through the building: One perimeter void creates a zone of exterior urbanism by bringing in the street, Washington Square Park, and New York City into the building. Office spaces cantilever out into the void and project the building back onto the city. The other void creates a space of interior urbanism by physically and visually connecting gathering spaces for the public and MAS.
