Ten to One has been commissioned by the local nonprofit Ember Charter Schools to design the speculative Bedford Stuyvesant Community Innovation Campus (CIC).
CIC multiplies by 2 the development potential of the full block site with a hybrid park and full build-out development; a holistic mixed-use complex traversable as a park. The hybrid landscape is opened to provide light and view and sloped up and down to provide access. The myriad of programming is staged along continuous networks of promenades, break out ramps, recreation spaces, atriums and commons. The roof park and community programming are accessible by stepped promenades from the street. Commercial and office spaces line these promenades and commons. School programming is accessible by ramps winding around interior atriums.
CIC, inspired by the socio-economic successes of university and college campuses as well as such projects as the Teachers Village in Newark NJ, encapsulates a holistic community vitalization strategy that will achieve three important aims: 1) draw in much needed resources such as jobs, affordable housing, innovative schools and all the proposed CIC programs; 2) support the ongoing residence and increase vitality of the historic resident communities; and 3) maximize and catalyze existing assets such as cultural capital, thought leadership, and underutilized real estate.
CIC includes; 3 community schools grades K to 12; community and cultural centers; affordable mixed-income, teacher and student housing; retail and makers-market space; co-working and nonprofit space; multi-level indoor and outdoor recreation spaces; rooftop urban farms and solar energy canopies.