ABSTRACT
Seventy percent of the 3.7 million people who work in New York City commute daily. Simultaneously, 40 million tourists visit New York City each year. What commuting is to work, tourism is to leisure. The former is a means to an end; the latter an attempt at authentic discovery, new experience, and unpredictability. The leisure of the tourist and the drudgery of the commuter operate as different categories of program, and reside at shear and hinged positions to each other at regular intervals. This shear agitates the relationship between the daily commute, a normative routine, and tourism, an aberration. The aim of the program is to inter-mingle these seemingly opposed experiences of New York City by way of an architectural translation; once juxtaposed, units of different program engage in an exchange, sharing common vector lines that link the entire surface together as one. The membrane of the individual units becomes the surface through which the translation materializes.
