COMPETITION FINALIST · NEW YORK CITY, USA
Hudson Yards West
Finalist entry, one of 27, in The Challenge of Tomorrow – TMRW 2020, hosted by Ronen Bekerman: a mixed-use residential and hospitality cluster above the Western Rail Yard. Five towers, vertical gardens, elevated parks and a covered public plaza — a layered urban environment connecting directly to the High Line. End to end, from the architectural concept and spatial design through to all visual communication.
TOOLS
3ds Max · V-Ray · Forest Pack · Photoshop · DaVinci Resolve
ROLE
Architecture, spatial design, art direction
SCOPE
Concept design, exterior & interior CGI, motion
01 — THE BRIEF
The Western Rail Yard is one of the most complex development sites in New York — a working rail yard to be decked over, hemmed by the High Line and the river. The proposal answers it with five towers on a shared podium: vertical gardens up the facades, elevated parks between the volumes, and a covered public plaza that stays open to the street.
The images carry the argument. Density, public space and urban life had to read in the same frame — skyline scale for the massing, eye level for the plaza and the interiors, with the facade pattern and planted setbacks legible from pink dawn through to full night.
02 — THE TOWERS
A clay massing set the silhouette before any glass existed — proportions, setbacks, and the gaps between the five volumes that keep river views and daylight through the elevated parks.
03 — INSIDE
Residential and hospitality interiors staged around the structure rather than hidden from it. Dark stone, herringbone oak and a single warm source per room, so the city outside stays the brightest thing in frame.
04 — MOTION
Two pieces cut from the same scene: a landscape film and a vertical edit for social, reframed rather than cropped so the facade pattern and the planting survive at 1080 wide.
05 — FROM THE SKETCH
Eighteen frames were drawn and pinned before anything was modeled — camera height, crop, and the order the eye moves through the sheet. The concept was settled on paper, which is where changes are still cheap.
Selected Works
LINKEDIN · INSTAGRAM · BEHANCE · ARTSTATION
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