Red Hook Way
Urban Design Strategy
Brooklyn, NY
Development, the “Red Hook Way”
Brooklyn Marine Terminal, Red Hook, Brooklyn, NYC“The Red Hook Way is a project rooted in community. Inspired by Red Hook’s lively network of nonprofits, local businesses, and artists, the project taps in to on existing community strongholds, while using the newly minted Brooklyn Marine Terminal to build new community spaces connected to the water. The Red Hook Way recognizes development is necessary to make expensive infrastructure improvements in the neighborhood. However, the project asserts that the existing neighborhood must take priority in all development because a community as beautiful and well connected as Red Hook’s is a wonderful rarity.”
A multi-phase residential, retail, and cultural development on NYC’s newest acquisition of the Brooklyn Marine Terminal.
In the master plan, there are considerations for such developments:
- Various forms of housing
- Expansion space for community hubs
- Congregation + retail spaces
- Intertwined parks + pathways
- Redirected floodwall + movement
- New pavilion system intertwined with movement
Designed through interviewing, precedent analysis, and articulating program to create a plan rooted in its contexts.
The addition of a pavilion system creates new possibilities for public spaces, and provides opportunity for experiments.
Encouraging interaction between all sides of Red Hook is essential to the success of any development, especially this solution.
Developed between September
Studio led by Prof. Mona El-Khafif and Jess Vanecek, developed in partnership with Alex Glick