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Janine Wilkosz HP Studio I Problem 3

Eastwood Housing on Roosevelt Island: Vanishing Utopia?. Janine Wilkosz HP Studio I Problem 3. Location. 510-580 Main Street. Location. Manhattan. Queens. The Architect. Jos é Luis Sert 1902-1983 From Barcelona Worked with le Corbusier Eastwood sketches 1970

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Janine Wilkosz HP Studio I Problem 3

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  1. Eastwood Housing on Roosevelt Island: Vanishing Utopia? Janine Wilkosz HP Studio I Problem 3

  2. Location 510-580 Main Street

  3. Location Manhattan Queens

  4. The Architect José Luis Sert 1902-1983 From Barcelona Worked with le Corbusier Eastwood sketches 1970 Construction began 1972 Finished 1974/1976

  5. The Aims • “One of the city’s most self-conscious, serious postwar efforts to make a significant contribution to urbanism”- Stern • “Not a housing project”- Burgee and Johnson • Housing for 500-1,000 physically disabled people • 1,003 units of low to moderate income housing (Mitchell-Lama) • “It should therefore be situated on the best available sites in the whole metropolitan area and should be planned so as to include space for recreation and repose, community services, and neighborhood shops.”- Sert • Sunlight and cross-ventilation important

  6. Influences/ Precedents Features Transformed: Liveliness Cluster Design Flat Roofs Simple Cubic Forms Absence of Decoration Bright Color Accents M EDITERRANEA N F O L K ARCHITECTURE Married Students Housing at Harvard University 1962-1964 (500 apartments) Stepped Cubic Forms Community

  7. The Building

  8. The Building

  9. The Building First Encounter

  10. The Building The End

  11. The Building Along Main Street

  12. The Building Along River Front

  13. Flow Into Courtyard From Main Street

  14. Flow Into Courtyard From River Front

  15. Flow Along Main Street

  16. Flow Between Buildings

  17. Flow From Floor To Floor Stop at every third floor

  18. Flow Through Corridors To Individual Apartments

  19. Interior Spaces Up Level Down

  20. Interior Spaces 2 4 Four Bedroom Apartment (up) 1 3

  21. Current Events • On its way to landmark status? • What does that really protect? • Roosevelt Island is changing • Eastwood is “out” of • Mitchell-Lama • What’s going to happen to this • idealistic housing complex? • Rent increases 12.5% to 15.5% • Island population: • 2000 = 9,520 • 2007 about 12,000 • Disabled residents: • 200 in 2005 • 80 in 2007

  22. Current Events “A wave of rent increases is making Roosevelt Island a more expensive place to live, and some residents fear that it may change the character of the community.” The Main Street Wire (January 27, 2001) “The island, once a bastion of economic and racial diversity, is taking a tilt toward greater affluence than prevailed in the past.” NY Times (December 4, 2005) Neighborhoods Close Up On: Roosevelt Island by Rebecca Segall July 31 - August 6, 2002 • Saturday, November 17, 2007 News Analysis by Dick Lutz NYS Threatens Huge Tax HikeFor Island’s Mitchell-Lamas DHCR Offers a Reassurance – But With Conditions; At Press Time, Agency Sets a Six-Month Moratorium LIVING ON | ROOSEVELT ISLAND An Island Joins the Mainstream Building Boom New residential development has changed the face of Roosevelt Island, and more is planned. By C. J. HUGHES Published: September 2, 2007

  23. Why Save Eastwood?

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