Metamorphosis

Preface:

With the growing demand for for resources and shelter. We are seeing the a ects that can occur when we do not protect our Historic districts and the charecters that have evolved from there evolution. It is not simply to ignore the growing necessities but to address them in a manner that take into consideration the excisting Architecture and charecter of the neighborhood. In this study we will discuss Sunset Park and how its designation as a Historic district has not stopped its progessive dismantling and inconsiderate developement. It is crucial to understand what is happening in the developement of historic districts as they will allow us to maintain a connection with our past. We will discuss Sunset Park and how rezoning has led to its distruction . We will further evaluate In ll lot precedents and adaptive Reuse precidents in conbination with sunset Parks unique charecter to propose design considerations that will allow Sunset Park to full ll its destiny to become an Eclectic Community full of life energy and identi cation throught the understanding of its past present and quikly approaching Future.

Contents :

Sunset Park Historic District National Registry Sunset Park Industrial Architecture Sunset Park Religious Architecture Sunset Park Residential Architecture Sunset Park Rezoning Rezoning Analysis Sunset Park New Developements In ll Lots Precedents Adaptive reuse Precedents Proposed in ll Design Developement Considerations Proposed Adaptive Reuse Developement Considerations Proposed Public Spaces Community Culture Analysis

BAT
Brooklyn Army Terminal

Designed by Cass Gilbert (the architect of the Woolworth Building) and built in seventeen months in 1918 and 1919, the ve million square-foot Terminal complex was the largest military supply base in the US up through WWII. In the decades following that war, the BAT became less essential to the federal government; in 1964 it was deemed unnecessary for national defense. It was unused for most of the 1960s, but in the 1970s, the City of New York began leasing space from the feds. In 1981 the City of New York bought the complex, with the intention of restoring it for use as a light-manufacturing warehouse . In the 1980s, City spent $86.4 million to renovate 2.2 million square feet of the complex. Since then, things have slowed down, and from 1990 to 2001, $41.5 millio n has been spent to renovate 900,000 square feet. T he nal renovation phase was completed in 2003.

Bush Terminal

St. Michaels

ROW HOUSES

ROW HOUSES

The Charecter of the Row House is derived from its lot in clusters. The Row houses in Sunset park show this fact quite well. Tree line houses usually developed at the same time , present Romanaesque town houses that generate there buity from its unit as a whole.

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