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Project:  Hunts Point Youth Center  

location:  Bronx, NY

client:  Department of Design and Construction, City of New York

size:  20,000 s.f.

date:  July 2001, started in 2000

contact:  Frederick Bell, Deputy Commissioner of Design, DDC 718.391.1221

The Hunts Point Youth Center [HPYC] is a performance space, art gallery, and education center in the Bronx. The building is also proposed as a 'virtual forest'.

The site is the Julio Carballo Fields, a park managed by the Parks Department of New York. The building occupies space that had been part of a public park, so the building was designed as a 'virtual forest' in order to give back the land that it occupies, virtually, as a forest.

The sense of a virtual forest was created through the manipulation of light and structure. A landscaped area in front of the building includes a grid of trees that continues inside the youth center through structure and sky lighting.

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