Flatbush Intersection
Type: Rhino, Illustrator, Photoshop, Premiere, After Effects, and Vray
Partner: Tyler Mudge and Erin Zearfoss
Class: ARC408 DAVID VEGA-BARACHOWITZ, CRYSTAL EKSI, AND ROBERT DAURIO
Location: Bedford Ave, East Flatbush, Brooklyn, NYC
Date: 12.15.21
We decided to first look at the community of East Flatbush. To guide this investigation we looked at how the community defines itself, how it’s been established over time, and what it needs to grow. Through informal and formal spaces we are proposing an intervention that incorporates living, gathering, and reuse to empower and foster the existing community. This increased community interaction is created by providing housing for those being displaced, flexible open green space, workshops, education, office facilities, and jobs through the reuse and preservation of local materials. Through the flexibility of these more formal spaces, informal community interactions will occur inspiring the exchange of ideas and giving a voice to existing residents.
Either side of the Sears becomes the workshop and storage of reclaimed materials
The auto body space is developed into affordable housing units, garden and playground, and a parking entrance for the residents. The gardens move through the site to connect to the other living building. This living holds amenities, affordable housing, townhouses, and a shared courtyard space
Connected to the kings theater is our learning spaces, black box, and amphitheater, which can bring productions out into the open air, or host community meetings and another entrance to public parking which will be placed underneath the site.
Our north east corner has the majority of our office space for hosting community organizations, shared working spaces, and retail and restaurant spaces
Overall our proposal values connection and the sharing of space to encourage informal and flexible interaction between the community. We hope that the interventions on our site serve as a formal backdrop to work with the existing community of flatbush.
