Tag: LEED certified building

Interactive Wall Design: Digital Water Pavilion hanrahan Meyers architects; cell phone Apps + Architecture; Michael J. Schumacher WATER score

May 6th, 2010

Digital Water Pavilion (DWP) is planned to be a Platinum LEED building designed around principles of sustainable design. The conservation of water is a key issue of the new Pavilion, and the main facade of DWP will have a piece written by composer Michael Schumacher etched on the glass titled: WATER.

Schmacher's score for WATER will be etched on the façade as a bar code. The facade is a 550-foot long glass wall designed by hanrahan Meyers architects (hMa), and visitors will be able to activate and 'play' Schumacher's piece by aiming their smart phones at the wall, and using a custom 'app' to 'play' the facade. By 'playing' the facade, visitors will hear WATER through their cell phone earpieces.

Digital Water Pavilion: hanrahan Meyers architects (hMa). A new pavilion in construction at Battery Park City, facing the Ballfields. The facade is a collaboration between hMa and NY Composer Michael Schumacher called: Tonal Motion.

The use of water as a constantly circulating, regenerative natural element is explored inside the new Digital Water Pavilion, which features an Olympic length pool with filters that clean the water using minimal chemicals, and minimal water waste. The building features Grey Water recycling, and all plantings around the building are native species.

Visitors walking by the glass façade of the Digital Water Pavilion can wave smartphones toward the façade and read a signal, which will play part of Schumacher's piece, WATER, on their phones. Visitors can literally play the façade.

For information contact: info@hanrhanMeyers.com

Facade design by hanrahan Meyers architects www.hanrahanMeyers.com

Sound by Michael J. Schumacher http://www.diapasongallery.org/
Battery Park City Community Center on Dwell.com

September 12th, 2008

hMa is pleased to have been featured recently on a Dwell.com design blog. Here is what Dwell blogger Jamie Waugh had to say about the project:

Approaching 9/11, New York's unspoken heart is in Battery Park. Relevant, then, is the community center Hanrahan Meyers is developing immediately north of Ground Zero. It's condo central in those parts, and the community center will be the base of two new residential towers; but the North Neighborhood structure will be a public works project drawing modernity and peacefulness to the area that once knew hideous chaos.

The structure's highlight is a public 500-foot long glass "Wall of Light" with an LED light installation the firm designed along with Tillotson Design Associates, illuminating a sound composition by New York composer Michael Schumacher. It will bring to light the passive energy systems fueling the Community Center: a program including swimming pools, a gym, a theater, classrooms and recreation and dance spaces. Completion date: 2010.

Visit Jamie's blog on Dwell.com

Battery Park City Community Center : view of arcade looking north
Battery Park City Community Center

June 27th, 2008

Bird's eye view from above

Glass arcade at dusk

Walking Along the Glass Arcade, BirdSong to Right

Detail view of stair

Entry Lobby

hMa is pleased to share these newly developed renderings of the Battery Park City Community Center.

About the Battery Park City Community Center project:

The primary architectural feature of the new platinum LEED-rated Battery Park City Community Center is a 500-foot long glass ‘Wall of Light’ situated at the base of two new residential towers in Battery Park City’s North Neighborhood immediately north of Ground Zero. The wall will feature an installation of LED lights designed by hanrahanMeyers architects with Tillotson Design Associates, illuminating a sound composition by New York composer Michael Schumacher. The wall is a public promenade and demonstration of the passive energy systems fueling the new Community Center. Facing inside the center, the wall unifies a diverse program of swimming pools, a gymnasium, theater, classrooms, and recreation and dance spaces, while bringing natural light into all of the primary spaces. It is scheduled to be completed by 2010.
6 People Changing the Way We LiveVictoria Meyers, architect, for hanrahan Meyers architects; sustainable design; green urbanism; Battery park City Community Center

May 22nd, 2007

The following is an excerpt from Arrive Magazine's May/June issue, pictured above. Click on image to enlarge. Victoria Meyers architect, for hanrahan Meyers architects

Six People Changing the Way We Live
by Kris Frieswick

Growing up surrounded by the wide spaces and light of Abilene, Texas, for half the year, and densely forested, rural Pennsylvania the other half, award-winning architect Victoria Meyers developed a lifelong craving for nature and light. In her work she strives to bring both those elements into the projects designed by her and her partner Tom Hanrahan. A devotee of architect Frank Lloyd Wright, Meyers says her modernist, minimalist designs "create spiritual places that put you in direct contact with nature."

Finding a way to do that in urban spaces like Battery Park City or a 1,600-square-foot urban loft in midtown Manhattan may seem impossible, and that's why her work has won so many architectural awards. The firm's latest concept, a 60,000-square-foot community center near Ground Zero, is being designed as a platinum LEED-certified building – the highest designation of environmentally sustainable construction – and will manifest Meyers' design goal. The community center, which is slated for completion in July 2012, boasts a 500-foot-long "Wall of Light" that will pour natural light into all of the building's primary spaces. A preliminary plan also calls for music, based on water, in a piece composed by friend and collaborator, Michael Schumacher. The glass wall will "reach out to the rest of the environment in a very vocal way that says this is a part of what we need to be as a civilization," Meyers says. "Maybe clean water, or a bird species is more important than having 24 different jackets, each of which is disposable at the end of the season."

View the complete issue of Arrive here.

See more from hMa at hanrahanmeyers.com .