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Gertrude Ederle Recreation Center
Gertrude Ederle Recreation Center
New York, NY, United States
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Gertrude Ederle Recreation Center
New York, NY, United States
YEAR
2013
Commissioned by the NYC Department of Parks and Recreation, the Gertrude Ederle Recreation Center project entailed the renovation of a 1906 bathhouse and the construction of a 10,500-square-foot addition. It breathes new life into a community facility that has served its West Side neighborhood for more than a century.
The center has been a vital community resource since its inception, serving first as a bathhouse for the surrounding working-class tenement districts for the purposes of public hygiene and recreation, and adapting over the years to serve the changing population of the neighborhood with opportunities for indoor and outdoor recreation. The present renovation and expansion allows the NYC/DPR to continue to provide accessible and low-cost programs for fitness and healthy living, with updated facilities that address the needs of 21st century users.
The historic bathhouse has been completely renovated, with its vintage indoor swimming pool fully restored, refurbished gymnasium, new multipurpose community room, and new MEP systems throughout. The addition, which displaced a long-defunct outdoor swimming pool, contains new locker rooms, a youth activities center, computer classroom, aerobics studio, fitness center, and comfort stations to serve the new playground, the landscaping of which will be completed in the spring of 2013.
The aesthetic goal of the project was to produce a modern addition that would stand in contrast to, yet be compatible with, the historic structure. For the exterior of the addition the architects chose an elongated brick in a color that would match the existing building; on the street front laid in a corduroy coursing to produce a texture that complements the rusticated base and quoining of the classical bathhouse façade. The long east wall of the old building, originally a lot line wall and inconsistently parged over the years, was meticulously cleaned so that today it is the dominant feature of the new interior.
Principal: Belmont Freeman
Project Architect: Luay Bahoora
Project Designer: Devyn Osborne
Associated Architects: Bargmann Hendrie + Archetype, Inc.
MEP Engineers: AKF Engineers
Structural Engineer: Robert Silman Associates
General Contractor: Padilla Construction Services
Photographer: Christopher Wesnofske
The center has been a vital community resource since its inception, serving first as a bathhouse for the surrounding working-class tenement districts for the purposes of public hygiene and recreation, and adapting over the years to serve the changing population of the neighborhood with opportunities for indoor and outdoor recreation. The present renovation and expansion allows the NYC/DPR to continue to provide accessible and low-cost programs for fitness and healthy living, with updated facilities that address the needs of 21st century users.
The historic bathhouse has been completely renovated, with its vintage indoor swimming pool fully restored, refurbished gymnasium, new multipurpose community room, and new MEP systems throughout. The addition, which displaced a long-defunct outdoor swimming pool, contains new locker rooms, a youth activities center, computer classroom, aerobics studio, fitness center, and comfort stations to serve the new playground, the landscaping of which will be completed in the spring of 2013.
The aesthetic goal of the project was to produce a modern addition that would stand in contrast to, yet be compatible with, the historic structure. For the exterior of the addition the architects chose an elongated brick in a color that would match the existing building; on the street front laid in a corduroy coursing to produce a texture that complements the rusticated base and quoining of the classical bathhouse façade. The long east wall of the old building, originally a lot line wall and inconsistently parged over the years, was meticulously cleaned so that today it is the dominant feature of the new interior.
Principal: Belmont Freeman
Project Architect: Luay Bahoora
Project Designer: Devyn Osborne
Associated Architects: Bargmann Hendrie + Archetype, Inc.
MEP Engineers: AKF Engineers
Structural Engineer: Robert Silman Associates
General Contractor: Padilla Construction Services
Photographer: Christopher Wesnofske
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