Atlantic Yards
In 2006 Forest City Ratner received approval to build more than 6 million square feet of housing, retail, and entertainment facilities on the Atlantic Yards site. Phase 2 of the Barclay Center development project.
The unique opportunity to create a large-scale, innovative, high-density development in the heart of Brownstone, Brooklyn, is scarce. As such, we sought to propose an alternative solution to Ratner’s 'City-In-The-Park' scheme. A solution that creates a series of urban spaces to complement the adjacent neighbor's vibrant street life while responding in scale to the existing context of Brooklyn's Brownstone typology through a series of enlarging porous structures.
The scheme reconciles the shift in neighborhood density and scale through the definition of three plans. A Top Plane, which functions as a public green space, varied to provide different activities. A Connecting Plan that joins the street level neighborhoods to the Top Plane's public greenspace through garden paths. And the Residential Plane mitigating these two elements through varying types and sizes of unit openings that tie the interior of the development to its exterior environment.
Typology: Research, Mixed-Use Development
Location: Brooklyn, NY
Year: 2014
Status: Unbuilt Research Project
Size: 4,440,000 sqft
Client: Self-Initiated
Collaborators: Thomas Barry, David Barr
Design Team: Nathan Minett RA
Project executed at OPerA Studio as Project Architect