Winners of Williamsburg Waterfront Performance Venue Competition1st Place: "park regeneration story_ landscape origami"
Euibeom Lee, Keunyoung Ryu, Kunho Kim
"Urban parks provide rest and comfort to people who live in the city regardless of its size or location. In addition, parks are where people can reconnect to the mother nature in the midst of busy city lives. Parks also serve as romantic dating spots, and sometimes create dramatic atmosphere. The urban parks bring out the most synergies when they are fully integrated with infrastructures, nature, climate, and events and add more livelihood and dynamics to the city."
The site of Williamsburg is a place where a music festival is held annually within Manhattan, and it provides relaxation to every visitor. This place can create different atmosphere based on the characteristics of events, the density of people at the events, and the time. Though, it is utilized in many different ways such as a venue for events, its primary purpose is to provide rest to people and create community for them.
Despite that a physical program, a concert hall, is added to the site of Williamsburg, the park has to maintain its natural atmosphere of the waterfront which is attributed to a harmonious combination of the purpose, surface area, east river and the site. The concert hall should have not only plans that enhances spatial completeness and software completeness as it serves as a medium that links Manhattan city and programs of the park.
To achieve these goals, origami methodology is used to the entire landscape. With this design methodology, the park can preserve its physical area and become the hub that connects tensions of festivals and ambience of city by planning a concert hall using landscape.
Winners have been announced for the suckerPUNCH-curated Williamsburg Waterfront Performance Venue competition. This open international ideas competition asked for an integrated design of an innovative music venue in the East River State Park located in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. The new park is the site of the ‘JELLY Pool Parties’ summer concert series which brings 10,000 fans to the site on sunday afternoons to enjoy free performances by progressive independent artists. suckerPUNCH challenged designers to develop a network of stages and facilities which can accommodate and enhance these performances through a progressive design strategy.
