After America lost the World Trade Center in September 11, 2001 due to the terrorist attacks, the state and the city governments of New York jointly founded the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation (LMDC). One of the LMDC’s assignments was the overseeing of the Lower Manhattan rebuilding process.
By 2002 I had experimented with various approaches to expand Lower Manhattan for more than 8 years. The successes of this design journey were chronicled in my year 2000 Master of Architecture thesis book. Giving the overwhelming relevance my Master of Architecture’ thesis had to the topic that was placed in LMDC ‘hands, I started to follow Lower Manhattan’s rebuilding process closely waiting for a chance to be heard.
Soon the chance came in August 2002, when LMDC asked for the “Request for Qualifications” to authorize some of the willing designers, to prepare designs for the new WTC, I submitted mine. I was optimistic, my approach was undisputedly national, I felt it was LMDC’s duty to hear me.
This chapter details my 10 pages entry that was numbered 424, I in fact enclosed my thesis work as portfolio samples. I will present the same portfolio samples that were submitted to LMDC yet more elaborately, since I don’t have the 10 pages limit here.
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