gensler - nyc town square

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5,322,266fOf LEftOVER / fILLER SPACE IN MANH

...WHY WASt

Urban Research Team

fROM BLIgHt tO BRIgH


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fUtURE NYC

DESIgNED fOR RESILIENCY

EXISTING POWER SYSTEM

Existing power systems rely on a singular pow-

er source that is channeled through various

substations and distributed to homes around

its vicinity.

HURRICANE SANDY BLACKOUT

Flooding in a Con-Edison substation on 14th

street knocks out power for the entire lower

Manhattan.

THE DISTRIBUTED POWER SYSTEM

Multiple power sources from various energy generating systems

offer an emergency safety net to surrounding homes.

TYPICAL POWER DISTRIBUTION HURRICANE SANDY DISTRIBUTED POWER SYSTEM


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BICYCLE RACK

HYDROPONIC

PLANTER

RAIN FED PONDS

RESTING AREAS

LOUNGE AREA

NATURAL SHADE

RAIN COLLECTOR / CANOPY RAIN COLLECTOR / LOUNGE SPACES RAIN COLLECTOR &

RAIN FED PONDS

ELECTRIC CAR CHARGING STATION

ELECTRIC CAR RENTAL DOCKS

PEBBLE BEDS RECYCLED

WOODEN

PLANKS

BICYCLE LANES

ALLEN STREET

ALLEN STREET: PLUG & PLAY PARK

PLUG & PLAY MENU

RAINWATERRETENTIONAND TREATMENT

WATERFALL

HUMAN ENERGYGENERATOR/COLLECTOR

GARDEN/FARM

KIDS GARDEN

HONEY HIVE

TAX CONSULTING

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GREEN TECH

WORK STATION

STROLLERPARKING

BIKE STATIONPARKING/SHOWERS/PARTS/REPAIR/AIRPUMP

ELECTRICCHARGINGSTATION

DOG PARK

DISCOTEQUENIGHT CLUB

SAUNA

SWIMMINGPOOL

DYNAMICSCENARIES

PLAZA BAR

RESTROOMS

DRINKINGFOUNTAINS

FIRE/HEATERS

PUBLIC KITCHEN

DESIGNERMEETSAND GREETS

EXHIBITIONS

CLASSROOM

PUBLIC HEALTH

BRANDPRODUCTLAUNCHES

RETAIL

DESIGN WEEK

BAKERY

SEATING AREA

StEP 4: SHIP It! StEP 5: SEtUP StEP 6: E

StE P 1 : NYC SOCIAL ME DIA StE P 2 : S It E SELECtION StE P 3 : VOt E!

PARkAVE.

JANE St. HUDSON St. D Og P AR k

S WI MM IN g P OO LEAStHOUStONSt.

Strategy A exible toolkit

The list o opportunities to enhance New Yorks

individual and collective communities is long.

Relevant solutions with the highest value-add will

vary greatly based on specifc site and context. To

create an approach that understands site specifcity

but is also scalable to a neighborhood or city-wide

scale, we developed a community interventions

toolkit. The toolkit incorporates numerous community

and resilience strategies (many o which attempt to

solve both issues in tandem biomass generators

that provide power charging stations, or instance)

designed to be plug-and-play based on specifc

context. The opportunity exists to both gain

community input up ront about what strategies

would be most valuable, and to maintain exibility

ater implementation to switch out solutions based on

community usage and reaction.


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fUtURE NYC

DUAL PURPOSE PARkS


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ALLEN StREEt:

A NEW URBAN OASIS

PHASINg - ALLEN St.

1942 - 2004

Allen Street, formerly home to the 2nd Avenue Elevated subway,

became a six-laned trac street with a central meridian divider.

2004 - 2015 (Present day)

Cycling lanes were added to both sides of the concrete

meridian coupled with a painted traffic buffer. A formerly six-

laned street is condensed into a four-laned street. The concrete

meridian is still underutilized.

2015 - 2020 (Phase 1)

A community focused design initiative begins to convert the

concrete median into a park. New plantings, seating, and

bicycle racks are coupled with sustainable technologies to

create a fully net-zero park.

2020 - 2030 (Phase 2)

The park becomes fully carbon negative, generating more

power than it consumes. An electric car docking/charging

station is added while the power producing elements of the

park are connected to surrounding homes. The painted traffic

buffers are removed and replaced with bioswale rain collectors.

2030 - 2050 (Phase 3

Green roofs are installed on the surroundin

turbines are set up througout the city streets

on the path to becoming the worlds first ca


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fUtURE NYC

tHE INtERCONNECtED CItY

CONNECTING PAR

TO HOMES

The most abundant source of renewathe city has at its disposal is solar polimitations in current PV technology large scale solar power an unpracticato powering our entire citys infrastruperts believe it must be included in trenewable as we decrease our consufossil fuels. We envision surfaces thrcityscape in combination with architethe town square as a means to collectribute energy. A diversifed power soreduce use of carbon emitting powerresult in the potential for energy shasimultaneously mitigating the risk ofpower failure in the event of natural


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ALLEN StREEt:

A NEW URBAN OASIS


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VIEW LOOkINg SOUtH ON ALLEN StREEt

ALLEN StREEt:

A NEW URBAN OASIS


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ALLEN StREEt:

A NEW URBAN OASIS

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