A New Gateway to Prospect Park at Third Street

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A New Gateway to Prospect Park at Third StreetProspect Park, Brooklyn, NYDesign CompetitionA collaboration with Michael Joy & Jason LindeA Design Challenge from the Park Slope Civic CouncilThe Park Slope Civic Council is sponsoring a design competition for a new Third Street entrance gateway to Prospect Park, to replace the existing New York City standard movable barriers, and it will be a highly visible, significant new architectural element of the Park.1860, Brooklyn.The prospect of a park.Emerging from the recently completed Central Park, Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux embarked on a journey with a rethought ideal for what a park could be and ultimately mean to the city of Brooklyn. Evolving their theories of the park's subconscious effect on one's peace of mind, they carefully orchestrated how the beholder both views and moves through the natural space. Through a series of undulating hills, scattered trees and softened edges, Olmsted's vision was to create a feeling of a sublime endless landscape. It was in fact the inversion of the city which contains it.2010, Brooklyn.It is this idea of the extensive view, the prospect, which is manifested in the entry gateway. Through a series of proportioned and articulated reflective blades, the boundary between the park and the city is effectively blurred. As one approaches, the park beyond is reflected and redirected, revealing the anticipated landscape beyond. Views shift and fracture as the viewer's position changes, revealing a striated composite view of the present and the future. The blades carefully come to a dull point on the street side of the gateway, intentionally denying any views of the urban. Upon exiting the park, the gateway acts as a filter, slowly releasing one back into the visual context of the city. It is this hard boundary which Olmsted strived to manipulate. With a flat reflective face on the park side of the blades, views back into the city become interlaced with the park. The future is blurred with the past. In essence, the gate itself is the park, revealing multiple moments simultaneously. It denies any visual obstruction and erodes the hard boundary between the built and the organic.

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