Mech Canyon

Albany, New York, The United States of America

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Matt Burgermaster - Instructor / School of Architecture, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 

The project is located in 7 4th Street, Troy, New York. The central warehouse was a food storage under the management of Albany County in the history. There were few debris fell on the amtrack line along the building in 2022, so the NY state government considered toring it down for safety reason. However, I think such action is to demolish the industrial culture that Albany community supposed to inherit from the history. The Industrial culture is replaced by financial culture as the business zones kept spreading. Therefore, it deserves a chance of “rebirth” in this modern era society. The renovation, by reusing its existing structures, of the warehouse can make the building come into use for serving the community, such as providing spaces for education of mechanical skills and knowledge and activity spaces for reactivate the abandoned area.