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NYC AIDS Memorial Park Design Competition- Runner up
New York, NY, United States
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NYC AIDS Memorial Park Design Competition- Runner up
New York, NY, United States
INTRODUCTION
The New York City AIDS Memorial Park Campaign is a coalition of individuals and organizations dedicated to the recognition and preservation of the ongoing history of the AIDS crisis. In the 30th year of the epidemic, they seek to honor the more than 100,000 New York City men, women and children who have died from AIDS, and to commemorate and celebrate the efforts of the caregivers and activists who responded heroically to the crisis.
THE SITE
The site is located at the gateway to New York City's storied West Village neighborhood and blocks from the Chelsea neighborhood, on a triangle of land bounded by Seventh Avenue, West 12th Street and Greenwich Avenue. The cultural significance of this site cannot be overstated; it stands at the epicenter of the AIDS epidemic in New York City through its adjacency to the former St. Vincent's Hospital.
PROPOSAL
New York Aids Memorial Park is a place dedicated to the memories that have long sunk into the ground of great prominence in the history of aids crisis of New York. A symbolic forest in triangular shape aka Forest of Memories is proposed to represents over 100,000 stories in one; to honors and recognize people who died of AIDS, to commemorate collective memories of loss and to celebrate shared heroic human efforts in saving life of those affected by aids crisis. The triangular park is set as if an island “drift apart” from its “original ground”, suggesting an architectural gesture of farewell and separation that reverberated with the death of Aids victims of New York. It is a symbolic yet functional park, designed as a place for contemplation and participation; the simple geometry that draw from site boundary reflects a serious approach to the design and the openness of the park will invites and welcomes the public. The memorial park that appeared anchors on water foundation reflect a fragile condition AIDS would have on human life. At street level, the park will be arranged with gently sloped entrances, walkways, stone paved hardscape, lights and benches along a L-shaped wall. The memorial park is designed without fence and gates, making it all accessible and a 7/24 user friendly local community hub. Below the grade, water and light as symbol of life and hope believed in many cultures are incorporated into outdoor landscape and Gallery of light. Gallery of light will house the frozen memories of the death and functioned as an exhibition and education spaces. Visitors will descent to the gallery of light from street levels either though a 1:20 ramp or a stair located at edges of the triangle site. Below grade spaces are characterized by serious formality through the use of dark polished granite stones on 2 L-shaped walls, complemented by the integration of light and water, giving it a sense of solemn, serenity and calmness.
The discreet presence of this proposal
reminds us the seen and unseen collective
community efforts in saving life of aids victims
in the past, present and future. In parallel
with these efforts, the memorial park is a
living memorial that required cultivation and continues endeavor to sustain its life blood. Forest of Memories is a park created from nature but infused with multi-layers of human experiences- hope, memories, dream, love, effort… Apart from being a local community park, it will stand as a cultural flag and a constant reminder of memories and hope, life and death, past and future.
Link to the competition web site: http://www.architizer.com/en_us/blog/dyn/38226/the-aids-memorial-park-competition-profiling-the-runners-up/
The New York City AIDS Memorial Park Campaign is a coalition of individuals and organizations dedicated to the recognition and preservation of the ongoing history of the AIDS crisis. In the 30th year of the epidemic, they seek to honor the more than 100,000 New York City men, women and children who have died from AIDS, and to commemorate and celebrate the efforts of the caregivers and activists who responded heroically to the crisis.
THE SITE
The site is located at the gateway to New York City's storied West Village neighborhood and blocks from the Chelsea neighborhood, on a triangle of land bounded by Seventh Avenue, West 12th Street and Greenwich Avenue. The cultural significance of this site cannot be overstated; it stands at the epicenter of the AIDS epidemic in New York City through its adjacency to the former St. Vincent's Hospital.
PROPOSAL
New York Aids Memorial Park is a place dedicated to the memories that have long sunk into the ground of great prominence in the history of aids crisis of New York. A symbolic forest in triangular shape aka Forest of Memories is proposed to represents over 100,000 stories in one; to honors and recognize people who died of AIDS, to commemorate collective memories of loss and to celebrate shared heroic human efforts in saving life of those affected by aids crisis. The triangular park is set as if an island “drift apart” from its “original ground”, suggesting an architectural gesture of farewell and separation that reverberated with the death of Aids victims of New York. It is a symbolic yet functional park, designed as a place for contemplation and participation; the simple geometry that draw from site boundary reflects a serious approach to the design and the openness of the park will invites and welcomes the public. The memorial park that appeared anchors on water foundation reflect a fragile condition AIDS would have on human life. At street level, the park will be arranged with gently sloped entrances, walkways, stone paved hardscape, lights and benches along a L-shaped wall. The memorial park is designed without fence and gates, making it all accessible and a 7/24 user friendly local community hub. Below the grade, water and light as symbol of life and hope believed in many cultures are incorporated into outdoor landscape and Gallery of light. Gallery of light will house the frozen memories of the death and functioned as an exhibition and education spaces. Visitors will descent to the gallery of light from street levels either though a 1:20 ramp or a stair located at edges of the triangle site. Below grade spaces are characterized by serious formality through the use of dark polished granite stones on 2 L-shaped walls, complemented by the integration of light and water, giving it a sense of solemn, serenity and calmness.
The discreet presence of this proposal
reminds us the seen and unseen collective
community efforts in saving life of aids victims
in the past, present and future. In parallel
with these efforts, the memorial park is a
living memorial that required cultivation and continues endeavor to sustain its life blood. Forest of Memories is a park created from nature but infused with multi-layers of human experiences- hope, memories, dream, love, effort… Apart from being a local community park, it will stand as a cultural flag and a constant reminder of memories and hope, life and death, past and future.
Link to the competition web site: http://www.architizer.com/en_us/blog/dyn/38226/the-aids-memorial-park-competition-profiling-the-runners-up/
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