Robert Kraus

Robert Kraus

  • Animation
  • Architecture
    • House
      • House (Photographic Essay by Richard Lewis Lee)
    • Proposal for Michael Kudish Natural History Preserve
    • Emerald Gallery
      • Site plan/description
      • Proposed new exhibition/performance building "A"
        • Renderings
        • Dodecahedron light fixture
      • Proposed new exhibition/performance space existing building "B"
        • Renderings
        • Models
    • Center for World Music and Dance
      • Columbia University GSAPP
        • Center for World Music and Dance (Columbia University GSAPP project 2002)
        • Fragile Cylinder (Columbia University GSAPP project 1999)
        • Public Surfaces (Columbia University GSAPP project 2001)
  • Art
    • Paintings 2010-2022
    • Paintings 1985-1999
    • Gardens
    • Pastoral
      • Barn Red
      • Watershed
      • Metropolis
      • Small, Medium, Large
  • Design/Fabrication
    • Shop
    • Digital Fabrication
  • Writing
    • Optical Correction
    • Seagram Building
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The project site in Hell's Kitchen (10th Avenue between 38th and 39th Streets, near the entrance to the Lincoln Tunnel), has a sloping topography. My proposal is driven by an image of a fragile, transparent cylinder rolling downhill and shattering. The program is a community center comprising three main elements; education, recreation, and administration. Each is housed in a separate structure composed predominately of a distinct material, and each has a different relationship to the sloping ground plane in a vertical heirarchy that valorizes pedagogy: administration below ground (reinforced concrete), gymnasium at ground level (CMU), and classrooms above ground situated on the gymnasium (wood frame). The three components are connected by a glass atrium. The gymnasium roof serves as a playground for the children.