BROOKLYN BRIDGE PARK CAFE

Brooklyn, NY

Vertical wood slats form the sloping walls of the Brooklyn Bridge Park cafe.

As part of the new 60 acre park at the base of the Brooklyn Bridge, the "Warming Hut" is designed to act as a park entry. The cafe style venue has an additional viewing platform at the roof and other programmed elements to engage both local activities and distant view.

A child walks up the ramp to the roof of the Brooklyn Bridge Park cafe.
Vertical wood slats wrap the existing CMU building, leading to the rooftop deck of the Brooklyn Bridge Park cafe.
Vertical wood slats form the sloping walls of the Brooklyn Bridge Park cafe.
 

The existing masonry head house structure is wrapped with a dense vertical stack of 3x12 wood fence pickets, reclaimed from demolished cold storage buildings on site. Exterior circulation space moves around the structure woven between the masonry and the wood pickets.

Vertical wood slats form the sloping walls of the Brooklyn Bridge Park cafe.
View of NYC at sunset from the Brooklyn Bridge Park cafe rooftop deck.
Vertical wood slats form the sloping walls of the Brooklyn Bridge Park cafe.

Type: Municipal - Adaptive Re-use / Renovation
Size: ±7,000 sf
Location: Brooklyn, NY
Status: Completed 2010
Credits: Architect: William Pevear at Maryann Thompson Architects. Design Lead & Landscape Architect: Michael Van Vaulkenburg & Associates. Photography: Chuck Choi.

 
People resting on a giant wood slat bench at the base of the Brooklyn Bridge Park cafe.

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