EAST RIVER EXCHANGE Versatile revitalization of a Navy Yard pier Against the background of the post-industrial city a recent tendency of -unilateral- riverside development is taking place: industrial zoned hardscapes are becoming home to “soft” urban users and usages. In opposition to this trend the design is the manifestation of the accumulation of a wide range of scales and program into the versatile, productive and resilient waterfront development of a deteriorating pier.
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access platform waste tipping floor business / extended stay hotel office building storage
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New face to the Brooklyn Navy Yard
Towards the waterfront
The present-day economical situation has
A leap towards an active and divers
left its mark on the Navy Yard. The once
waterfront usage has been initiated by the
vibrant marine base has turned into a
Bloomberg Administration by transferring
fragmented industrial site home to mainly
waste by barges outside the city instead
small scale creative/tech companies. As
of by long-haul trucks in this way limiting
a consequence, the water oriented yard
environmental and financial harm conflicted
has turned its back towards the waterfront
by these trucks. East River Exchange is
leaving the infrastructure on the water’s
designed to be able to deal with the next
edge to deteriorate. Furthermore, the
step of a waste management cycle by
different tenants require distinctive needs
incorporating recycled materials into the
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FIG 01 Overview
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IMAGE 02 Business hotel with framing views towards the Lower East Side of Manhattan
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of the carriers.
accessibility of the Yard. Combining the facilities of the ferry stop with an extended stay hotel intended for business expats, a space of daily interaction and exchange has been set up. Additionally, the prime location in the vicinity of Lower East Side
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is also met with the poor public transport
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Yard into the East River Ferry network there
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process, hence avoiding empty transport
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and external expertise. By plugging the Navy
access ramp weighbridge feeder pre-load compacter and storage buffer deodorizer/ dust collector barge mooring zone unloading bay storage sorting bay truck loading bay
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The superposition of a recyclables/waste
FIG 02 Waste/recycables circulation
transfer station, a business hotel and a naval entrance to the Yard provides for an
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intense internal and external, visual and physical exchange which is reflected by the openness of the architecture itself.
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PUBLIC CIRCULATION 2
ferry landing ticket office / info / hotel check-in 33 m2 hotel unit 21 m2 hotel unit communal facilities
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Manhattan provides for a strong asset in
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awareness from and for the Yard.
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FIG 03 Public circulation consumer
marine waste transfer station
collected
compressed
recycling factory
IMAGE 03 Dumping platform
educational recycling centre
ferry
manufacturing
cultural East River Exchange
park hotel waste transfer station
sorted & recycled
SCHEME 01 Proposed waste - recyclables system
recyclables waste
FIG 04 Structure
current system ideal system Brooklyn Navy Yard
SECTION 01 Ferry deck - dumping platform - business hotel
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OFFICE BUILDING 1 2 3 4
MAP 01 East River Exchange is only one node in a broader network of multi-use and divers productive waterfront development.
SECTION 02 unloading bay - storage - Navy Yard access
ticket office / info / hotel check-in changing rooms / sanitation canteen / office break room control room / administration
FIG 05 Office Building
IMAGE 04 View of the ferry landing