Light Bench and
Park
North
Neighborhood Light Diagram
Glass Sun Shade
Vesey
Street Streetscape
Bench Security Assembly
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Located in New York
City's Lower Manhattan, the Battery Park City Streetscapes project is
an urban design effort to improve pedestrian connections and
neighborhood amenities in the North Neighborhood while providing for
perimeter security at the adjacent World Financial Center and New York
Mercantile Exchange.
Security issues for the site and buildings are of critical importance,
but these needs are not given exclusive precedence over pedestrain and
neighborhood resident needs. The configuration of streets and
street furniture are configured to provide pedestrian amenity:
speed controls reduce vehicle speeds to provide both security and
public safety, while vehicular barriers are reduced in size and
integrated into the urban streetscape to provide wayfinding.
Additionally, new urban security measures have been developed for the
project using compressible fill and other technologies to reduce the
visual and physical impact of security elements within the
street. Several patents have developed from this work.
Scott Demel has served as Project Manager and Project Architect
at Rogers Marvel Architects throughout various phases of the work since
the initial security and
urban analyses. Glass Sun Shelters were designed by James
Carpenter Design Associates. Initial phases of the project are
nearing
completion.
Awards
American Institute of Architects National
Award for Outstanding Urban
Design, 2005
American Society of Landscape Architects National Analysis and Planning
Award,
2005 Link
American Institute of Architects New York Chapter, Project Merit Award,
2007
Article
David Dunlap, "A New Idea in Security Would
put Vehicles on a
Pavement-Level Turntable." New
York Times, Dec 28, 2006. Article Reprint
Patent
Vehicle Barrier System Link
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