BROOKLYN HEIGHTS WATERFRONT
Completed May 2009
ASSIGNMENT:
Redesign Brooklyn Heights waterfront and promenade in anyway you see fit including at least 1 millon sq of buildings.
VISION STATEMENT:
The waterfront at Brooklyn Heights presents the opportunity for the creation of an entirely new neighborhood in New York City. The new neighborhood will be a sustainable mixed-use live-work environment connected to but separate from the Brooklyn Heights neighborhood.
GOALS AND OBJECTIVES:
1. Create a museum of urban history in the north node to attract visitors and business to the neighborhood.
2. Create a marina in the second node to attract water-sports enthusiasts and residents to the neighborhood.
3. Provide a naturalistic park and boardwalk facing the east river to give scenic views of manhattan and a site of recreation for visitors and residents as well as to concentrate energy producing devices.
4. Create a narrow neighborhood connected to Brooklyn Heights sufficiently so that residents of that neighborhood will be able to access it and the new park, but additionally separated so that it is realized that this is a separate neighborhood.
5. Provide a variety of housing types, from studio apartments to larger homes for families in order to create a diverse, affordable, and living neighborhood.
6. Create offices and working environments that attract a variety in sizes of businesses in traditional and non-traditional settings.
7. Creation of an environment that produces enough energy to sustain it through the use multiple devices (from solar panels and wind turbines to paving which can transform kinetic energy into electrical energy).
8. Creation of a subway station to connect the new waterfront to manhattan’s other neighborhoods.
9. Enclose the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway in a soundproof tunnel and pier-like extension of the Brooklyn promenade to create a quiet and tranquil environment for the two neighborhoods’ residents.
10. Adaptive reuse of piers as well as an existing structure.
PLAN:
NORTH NODE:
The north node will be a high-density office/commercial, residential and recreational area that will focus on a new museum of urban history
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PARK & CONNECTOR:
Between these two nodes will be a park that concentrates mechanisms for the generation of renewable energy and a smaller mixed-use connecter neighborhood connecting the expanded Brooklyn Promenade and these two nodes.
SOUTH NODE:
The south node will be a more residential neighborhood focused on the adaptive reuse of two buildings and a marina for water activities.
Combined, these three areas will create an intensively used waterfront with its own distinct feel for Brooklyn Heights.
PROGRAMMING:
| institutional | purple | 340,000 sf |
| housing | orange | 1,407,640 sf |
| office and studio space | blue | 1,032,380 sf |
| commercial | red | 398,720 sf |
total square feet |
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3,178,740 sf |