Better Bus service is about Equity
“Express bus service — Select Bus Service, local officials call it — is a no-brainer for underserved routes across the city. The installation of new rapid lines, however, has been anything but rapid.”...
View ArticleInequality and Transit … Part 2
This one comes from the New Yorker and was actually published 2 years ago. “if the borough of Manhattan were a country, the income gap between the richest twenty per cent and the poorest twenty per...
View ArticleUrban Injections
The project’s goal is to navigate Brownsville through a series of interventions to improve the residents’ perception and everyday life in the public and semi-public space. Open spaces are not scarce in...
View ArticleNYCHA AS A MAGNET FOR THE NEIGHBORHOOD
The neighborhood has always been one of transformation and that is true for today too. Queens has seen a growth in the construction industry over the past decade and simultaneous decline in the...
View ArticleART-IVATION: TECHNOLOGY AND ART AS URBAN CATALYSTS
Long Island City is the westernmost residential and commercial neighborhood of New York City and is home to three NYCHA developments. Today, it in close proximity to Manhattan and Roosevelt Island, and...
View ArticleEco-Resilient Corridor
Astoria houses face the odds of nature in-terms of flooding and the defects of planning in-terms of lack of public related infrastructure and a limping network of connectivity but at the same time have...
View ArticleNYCHA as Food Campus
This project focuses on two main observations made about the Lower East NYCHA campuses: firstly, the pressing need for greater employment and socio-cultural integration with the East Village...
View ArticleWater As A Catalyst – Cutting a Public Spine through the NYCHA Campus
The lower east side, by virtue of its low lying location, suffered massive destruction caused by Hurricane Sandy. This warranted the construction of a protective berm to keep the storm surge from...
View ArticleWall to Wall : And Everything in Between
As is widely known, NYCHA has several difficult issues that it faces while providing housing for thousands of people throughout New York City. The invaluable role that NYCHA has in the city should be...
View ArticleGREEN HAVEN
Integrating greenhouses with community activities to form a healthy and safe neighborhood. Mott Haven is a community with rich cultural heritage and optimistic people looking for opportunities and...
View ArticleThe Bronx is RADIANT
With a long history of high poverty levels and low employment rates, Mott Haven is constantly in need of a big change. The neighborhood sits within close proximity to Hunt’s Point, the world’s largest...
View ArticleBoogie Down, Boxes!
Current NYCHA campus conditions are a result of decades of disinvestment and isolation from the surrounding urban fabric. NYCHA campuses are the product of the tower in the park development, which...
View ArticleNYCHA, CUT THE CORNERS
People in Brownsville have a negative perception of their neighborhood and they do not interact with their extended neighbors. Our goal is to create interactions between different groups of people and...
View ArticleROCKAWAY – THE NEW CENTER OF BROWNSVILLE
This project is to re-design Rockaway Avenue to be the center of Brownsville. Today Rockaway Avenue is preserved as a physiological boundary marked by high criminal activity that separates the...
View ArticlePublic Housing: An Urban Design Challenge
See the combined work of the Summer 2015 5 Borough Studio in this PDF. Over 400,000 New Yorkers live in public housing provided by the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA), the largest public...
View ArticleSUMMER 2016 explores the CO-CITY: The City as a Collective, Cooperative,...
Aztec Dance Group Calpulli Tletl Papalotzin at Corona Plaza during Oye Corona, 2013 (photo by Neshi Galindo) The city is a collective experience. It is a complex system “consisting of a vast multitude...
View ArticleEvent: The Sharing Movement
The 5 Borough Studio is not the only ones interested in the physical manifestation of sharing. See these two events as part of the Storefront for Architecture’s Manifesto series:
View ArticleBuild Public
As many teams have been thinking about public space this summer, this example might enrich your approach to creative partnerships. Build Public brings a “start-up” mentality to the world of public...
View ArticleSharing Models at Storefront
Check out this exhibition at the Storefront for Art and Architecture We are experiencing the emergence of a culture that is marked by a return to, redefinition, and expansion of the notion of the...
View ArticleUrban SOS Fair Share: A Student Competition
Urban SOS: Fair Share Turn your final studio project into a contribution to Urban SOS, an annual competition presented by AECOM and Van Alen Institute in partnership with 100 Resilient Cities —...
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