There is an interesting development competition that offers New Yorkers the opportunity to reflect upon the future function and significance of the islands that dot the New York harbor. Titled The Park at the Center of the World: Five Visions for Governors Island , the show, sponsored by the Governors Island Preservation and Education Corporation (GIPEC), features the work of five finalists that explore a range of possible uses for the site. Entries were chosen on the basis of the promise they showed as schematic designs, as concepts or ideas, and are still subject to revision.
3Dwalkthroughs.com recommends that you check out some of the 3D Renderings and 3D Walkthroughs representing the entries. The official website for the competition can be found here>>. Once a winner is selected we would love the opportunity to utilize our capabilities to showcase the concept as realistically as if it were built.
Here is an article describing the competition.
Metropolis Magazine
By Nader Vossoughian
Posted July 27, 2007The islands around Manhattan have historically been treated as places for sequestering the ill or socially disenfranchised. Throughout the 19th century, Roosevelt Island was the site of various hospitals, asylums, and correctional facilities. Through the mid-20th century, Ellis Island was the port of call for incoming, non-naturalized immigrants. Today, however, Manhattan’s islands are increasingly being rezoned and redeveloped for recreational, residential, and public use – that is, they are being treated as destinations rather than transition points or buffer zones.
Governors Island is presently the subject of an exhibition and development competition that offers New Yorkers the opportunity to reflect upon the future function and significance of the islands that dot the New York harbor. Titled The Park at the Center of the World: Five Visions for Governors Island , the show, sponsored by the Governors Island Preservation and Education Corporation (GIPEC), features the work of five finalists that explore a range of possible uses for the site. Entries were chosen on the basis of the promise they showed as schematic designs, as concepts or ideas, and are still subject to revision.
The teams included in the exhibition include Field Operations, which worked with Wilkinson/Eyre Architects; Hargreaves Associates, which partnered with Michael Maltzan Architecture; REX, which teamed up with MDP; West 8, which submitted its proposal with Rogers Marvel, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Quennell Rothschild, and SMWM; and WRT, which collaborated with Urban Strategies. In accordance with the competition brief, all entries were to offer plans for approximately 150 acres of Governors Island’s 172 acre site. Participants were asked to address the island’s historical and physical fabric, as well as its relationship to Brooklyn and Manhattan (the former is just 200 meters away, while the latter, twice that). All teams were also asked to make provisions for a “Great Promenade” that wraps the perimeter of the site and also incorporate a “Summer Park” to the south—and the submissions vary enormously in terms of their range and approach (See the slideshow for images and information on each entry. )
Seen as a whole, the strength of the designs is that they provide convincing arguments for how Governors Island could function as a destination for New Yorkers—and not just for tourists. Mollusk is intriguing for how it uses Governors Island’s location in the center of New York harbor as an opportunity to promote clean water, and sustainable urban design more generally. The Living Matrix is also impressive in terms of how it offers a rereading of “The Great Promenade,” blurring circulation spaces with cultural programs. This proposal also concentrates activity along the entire perimeter of the island—and not just along a central axis—which is sensible for two reasons. It represents an intelligent way of managing density (helps prevent bottlenecking) and leaves the core of the island open for more private uses (picnicing or gardening, perhaps). While the idea of imposing a grid on Governors Island is not entirely plausible (won’t the site feel small enough already?), the flexibility that the design by REX/MDP allows still makes sense given the open-ended character of the development as a whole.
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