THE HARLEM EDGE
THE HARLEM EDGE is a re-utilization project of a decommissioned Department Of Sanitation building located near The Hudson River on 135th Street in Harlem
The main design approach addresses the issue of the waterfront being inaccessible to the Harlem Community because of the FDR.
In order to create awareness and provoke accessibility to the water front a series of public programs are proposed including a recycling facility and a gallery space both of which will be open to public visits. A transportation hub is also proposed on the deck level where ferry services could take places to Lower Manhattan and New Jersey along The Hudson River.
Instead of demolishing the entire facility, the main structural frame of the building would be maintained while its cladding gets partially removed and re-purposed to define the new layout. As a result, entire building would manifest itself as a publicly accessible experiential recycling facility that also stands out in the urban scale as a refurbished object.
