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W. O. R. M. (Wandering Outpost for Revelatory Meandering)

M.Arch Core Studio
City College of New York (CUNY)
Prof. John Cunningham
2020

Examining the intermingling of past and present, celebrating a historic structure while also testing its boundaries.


This rehabilitation project reimagines a community/athletic center as a site of exploration and perambulation. Located in Midtown Manhattan, W.O.R.M. (Winding Outpost for Revelatory Meandering) integrates four prewar historic buildings into a whole that interrogates the relationship between near and far, past and present.

Much as Gordon Matta-Clark’s Conical Intersect encourages a reinterpretation of buildings as an interplay of voids, W.O.R.M. features a series of cuts and tunnelings that disrupt as much as they open up to a new expression of communal space. A winding stair spirals up through holes bored into the floor plates, linking activities found on different floors to each other and back to the street, allowing for a meandering experience of the center.


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Giuliana Vaccarino Gearty

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Giuliana is an architect and researcher of cultural landscapes. Her projects span across eras and oceans, from cooperative housing in Sweden to the reuse of tuna fisheries in Sicily. Giuliana’s research has received multiple awards, including the Robert A. M. Stern Travel Fellowship and the University of Chicago Feitler Prize. Her work has been published in the edited volume Tradition and Invention, Dezeen, and PLATFORM. She lives and works in New Orleans.