THE PLAYTRIUM




The thread this imagined reality intertwined the Jacob Javits Center and the “end” of America’s occupation of Afghanistan began with fields. The infinite of central rug motifs, the infinite of the Mies-ian space-frame, overlaid. The spectatorship of “the other” through early world fairs, the Crystal Palace being the first convention center.


With the end of America’s occupation of Afghanistan, rather the occupation the begin with, the world witnessed a new Afghani diaspora. As refugees arrive at the Jacob Javits Center in this proposal, the project interrogates, ideas of spectatorship through conventions, refugee cities, and the overlooked parallels between the two.





CORE I | FALL 2021
INSTRUCTION:

ESTEBAN DE BACKER
LOLA BEN-ALON 
BERARDO MATALUCCI

COLLABORATORS: 
(SITE RESEARCH) 
DAVID ZHANG 
(TECH III AND IV) 
TOPHER ARMSTRONG, LAUREN BROWN, KELSEY JACKSON 
(TECH V) 
CHRIS DEEGAN, ROMAN KARKI, DAVID ZHANG