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battery park city community center
waveline

red hook center for the arts
hunts point
university hall

 

project:  Battery Park City Community Center

location:  North Neighborhood, Battery Park City

client:  Battery Park City Authority

size:  60,000 s.f. with 17,000 s.f. of park

date:  Scheduled completion by 2010

contact: hMa hanrahanMeyers architects

 

The primary architectural feature of the new platinum LEED-rated Battery Park City Community Center is a 500-foot long glass ‘Wall of Light’ situated at the base of two new residential towers in Battery Park City’s North Neighborhood immediately north of Ground Zero. The wall will feature an installation of LED lights designed by hanrahanMeyers architects with Tillotson Design Associates, illuminating a sound composition by New York composer Michael Schumacher. The wall is a public promenade and demonstration of the passive energy systems fueling the new Community Center. Facing inside the center, the wall unifies a diverse program of swimming pools, a gymnasium, theater, classrooms, and recreation and dance spaces, while bringing natural light into all of the primary spaces. It is scheduled to be completed by 2010.

Landscape Design by SCAPE

Lighting Design by Tillotson Design Associates

Green Consultation by Atelier Ten

 

 

attery Park
Battery Park City Community Center: night view



site plan


green diagram


arcade view looking north


arcade view looking south


idea diagrams : musical membrane


Michael Schumacher collaboration : BirdSong


detail : final frit pattern


idea diagram : voids


entry lobby : void #1


view of ballpark promenade from inside the Community Center


pool : void #2


gymnasium : void #3


south courtyard : dance studio at night


bird's eye view of plaza and arcade


bird's eye view of plaza and arcade


view of arcade looking north

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