Green Haven

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Columbia University GSAPP Shape of Two Cities Program (2018-2019)

Location: Brooklyn, New York City

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Main Goals

Study and intervention within Mott Haven, New York located in the South Bronx examining the environmental injustice in an underprivileged neighborhood.

Thesis

Creating useful boundaries between residents and high pollution levels through the implementation of functional greenspace that permeates and beautifies the community will reduce contact with harmful pollutants in order to help distance Mott Haven from being a neighborhood defined by its harmful industrial setting.

The Site & Design Development

The implementation of this project would be crucial to the success, as the community members must be involved and tend to the green space in order to make up for lack of funding.

Aerial View of Early Capped Highway Concept

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The community of Mott Haven is separated from the waterfront by heavy industry.

The amount of industry and truck traffic leads to dangerous air quality and levels of PM 2.5 (concentration diagrammed to the left)

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Intervention

In order to address the high pollution levels in Mott Haven as well as lack of community space, a green space running underneath the high way that separates the industrial space from the rest of the neighborhood would be implemented. It features community green space and gardens as well as air-filtering technology. Additionally, this concept implements foliage in order to mitigate the issue of noise pollution.

Long Section

Air Filtration Park Rendering

Open Green Space & Pedestrian Walkways Concept