DWiP: view up ramp toward ballfield level, posted Victoria Meyers architect

DWiP: ballfield terrace, posted Victoria Meyers architect

The Digital Water Pavilion (DWiP) is a new 55,000 square foot building conceived as a built landscape and situated at the base of  two new residential towers in Battery Park City’s North Neighborhood.  The primary architectural feature of the new Center is a curved 550-foot long glass arcade wall facing West Street immediately north of Ground Zero. The arcade wall features a patterned interpretation of a composition, ‘WaTER’, commissioned from New York City composer Michael Schumacher. The glass wall sits opposite two swimming pools and a gymnasium inside the building and two ballfields and a soccer field outside the building. A new public promenade follows the curve of the arcade adjacent to the ballfields, connecting north to south from Murray to Warren Streets, providing access to the Ballfields.

The arcade has three courtyards (see photos below), with a stair in the central courtyard connecting the Ballfields to the Ballfield Terrace above, the Green Roof above DWiP.  The 16,000 square foot Terrace designed with SCAPE landscape architects has a series of ramps and stairs that reach out to the landscape and other parks in Battery Park City.  DWiP's roof, the Ballfield Terrace, is an occupiable Green Roof with benches and planted areas, linked to other BPC Parks, including Teardrop Park to the west.

DWiP: north courtyard

DWiP: south courtyard posted Victoria Meyers architect

Other program areas in the Pavilion include a gymnasium (pictured below), pool room (pictured below), dance studios, a state-of-the-art theater, and classrooms on the second floor.  Digital Water i-Pavilion is scheduled to receive a Platinum LEED rating.  hMa are also the Master Plan Architects for Battery Park City’s North Neighborhood, and developed the guidelines for the buildings, landscaping, and walking paths in the North Neighborhood.  DWiP is scheduled to open in September 2012.

DWiP interior: gymnasium

DWiP interior: pool room posted Victoria Meyers architect

DWi-P , posted Victoria Meyers architect,  click here to see more photos of DWi-P on www.hanrahanmeyers.com

DWiP (Digital Water i-Pavilion) by hanrahan Meyers architects proposes an interactive surface (edge) where visitors can be at an edge within the city of New York and share an interactive experience.  The experience is interactive, both as a live event, as well as through an App, developed as a mirrored experience of the building. 

DWiP's 550-foot long etched glass facade interacts with smart devices through an interactive media surface that embraces urban design, and encourages social interactions between participants, at the edge between Battery Park City and the lower west side of Manhattan. 

DWi-P glass facade in construction June 2012 click here to see more photos of DWi-P on www.hanrahanmeyers.com Victoria Meyers architect

DWiP marks the eastern edge of Battery Park City at the Ballfields.  DWiP connects pedestrians within Battery Park City's North Neighborhood to the West Side Highway pedestrian crossing from Battery Park City to the National Sept. 11 Memorial and the World Trade Center site.    

DWiP's 550-foot long glass facade is an interactive space of mediated interaction where visitors will be encouraged to post ideas, reactions, and thoughts about New York City, the waterfront, the Irish Hunger Memorial, Poets House, Teardrop Park, and other significant sites in the area.  The edge is also interactive through the DWiP App, where visitors will be able to interact with the frit pattern on the building's glass, as well as the Michael Schumacher sound piece, WaTER.  

DWi-P : view up ramp toward Ballfield Terrace click here to see more photos of DWi-P on www.hanrahanmeyers.com Victoria Meyers architect post

DWiP is on track to receive a Platinum LEED rating. 

In 1999, hanrahan Meyers architects were hired by Pratt Institute to overview the development of a new campus master plan, and to design Pratt Pavilion, linking two 1890's brick warehouse buildings:  Pratt Studios and Stueben Hall. Pratt Pavilion was completed and opened to the public in 2007.  Pratt Campus Master Plan is ongoing.  The Main Walk will be reconfigured and repaved this summer, with work starting in June 2012. 

The plans below demonstrate the progressive changes to the campus, initiated in 1880, when the Pratt family began developing the Pratt Campus to educate young people in engineering and the arts, to maintain American competitiveness. 

Pratt Institute circa 1900 : Small Privately Owned Institute:  Three buildings with distinct programs: Library, Engineering, Art / Architecture Victoria Meyers architect post

Pratt Institute circa 1990 : Unplanned Dispersion Victoria Meyers architect post

-  Enlarged campus with diverse buildings
-  Programs dispersed randomly throughout various large, anonymous brick industrial lofts
-  No distinct image
-  Building Entrances oriented toward streets instead of campus

Pratt Institute circa 2007 : Convergence Victoria Meyers architect post

-  Rebranding of the campus, making campus mall the focal point
-  Programs focused into single building entities with entrances turned to face the mall
-  Original buildings plus new buildings and additions give a 'branded' image to the mall/ campus

Pratt Pavilion by hanrahan Meyers architects: exterior view  click here to view all photos of Pratt Pavilion on www.hanrahanmeyers.com Victoria Meyers architect post

In 2007 hMa's Pratt Pavilion opened, to press and fanfare.  Pratt Pavilion was the first building constructed that begins to develop the concepts outlined in the Pratt Master Plan.  Pratt Pavilion creates a new main entry into Stueben Hall and Pratt Studios from the Pratt campus.  The original building entries were from DeKalb Avenue to the south.  With the opening of Pratt Pavilion, the Pratt campus became more cohesive and branded as Pratt Institute's main public space.  Pratt Pavilion was recognized with design awards from the AIA NYChapter, as well as the Architectural League of New York for design excellence. 

Diagram Relating Green Areas Throughout Manhattan to Battery Park City's North Neighborhood: Victoria Meyers architect post

In 2000 hanrahan Meyers architects (hMa) were hired as the Master Plan Architect for Battery Park City Authority’s North Neighborhood, the most forward-thinking urban master plan in the United States. The North Neighborhood is the location of the first green high-rise residential tower in the United States and is the first sustainably designed high-rise neighborhood in the world.  When the North Neighborhood is complete in 2012 it will include a total of 5 million square feet of sustainable buildings, an array of new technologies and operating practices and a unique integration with the spectacular natural features of New York's waterfront.

Isometric Diagram showing Battery Park City North Neighborhood's Green Roofs and Green Landscapes.  Master Plan by hanrahan Meyers architects, master plan architects for the North Neighborhood, Green Urban Design guidelines for buildings built in Battery Park City's North Neighborhood Victoria Meyers architect post

The configuration of the buildings also emphasizes this engagement with nature by creating an interweaving grid of outdoor spaces – including 4 major parks – with 11 residential and public buildings including the renowned Stuyvesant High School.  Individual buildings are designed to complete the urban blocks by aligning with lot lines up to the 11th and 14th floors, after which towers are placed up to the 25th and 32nd floors in a complex pattern of offsetting alignments to open up view corridors and bring light and air into the parks below.

Every building and every park built in the hanrahan Meyers master plan is LEED certified.   hanrahan Meyers are building the last building in the North Neighborhood, the Battery Park City community center, called DWiP –  Digital Water i-Pavilion.  DWiP is on track to receive a Platinum LEED rating. 

Click here to view all images of the Battery Park City North

Neighborhood Master Plan on www.hanrahanmeyers.com

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L to R:  DWi-P in construction, view looking north from gym room; digital rendering of DWi-P glass wall; Curtis B. Wayne click here to view all images of DWi-P on www.hanrahanmeyers.com

From heritageradionetwork.com:

On this episode of Burning Down the House, our host Curtis B. Wayne is in the studio with architect Victoria Meyers of Hanrahan Meyers. Tune in to hear about how poetics, music, and sound art has become entwined in Victoria's work. Listen to works by Harry Partch and John Cage; Curtis says these works speak to the architecture of John Johansen. Hear about Victoria's collaboration with sound artist Michael Schumacher: a building covered with frit patterns that trigger sound and music on the iPhone. Hear some architecturally influential pieces from musicians and composers such as John Cage's "Sonata No. 5 for Prepared Piano", and Philip Glass's "1,000 Airplanes on the Roof". Finally, listen to hear about some of Victoria's other projects, including the Bridge Studio on the Delaware River and the Infinity Chapel above Washington Square Park.

Listen to the interview on heritageradionetwork.com

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Link to an article on "Burning Down the House" with Curtis B. Wayne from architect's newspaper