Splash House: Parsons Design Workshop

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Splash House: Parsons Design Workshop

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Hospitality + Sport › Sports Center
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The Highbridge Pool and Recreation Center is an invaluable place for kids to play and learn. Yet
for several months every summer the Washington Heights community is
denied this critical resource when the facility is converted into locker
rooms for the Highbridge Park Swimming Pool.
We are the Design Workshop,
a group of graduate architecture students from Parsons School of Design
eager to make a difference and learn a lot in the process.
Support us in creating a new pool pavilion for the Washington Heights
Community to keep the recreation center open for indoor play year
round!
PROJECT
We've designed Splash House, a new pool-deck pavilion for the
Highbridge Park Pool in the Washington Heights neighborhood of New York
City. It is a space where swimmers can change and safely store
belongings, and we're ready to construct it ourselves this summer.
We need your help! All donations will go towards procuring building
materials for Splash House; everything from screws to steel beams.
The Design Workshop voluntarily designs and builds projects every
year for not-for-profit organizations. This year, Parsons has worked
with NYC Parks and Recreation and the City Parks Foundation
to develop Splash House. The Highbridge Recreation Center is
historically significant, dating from 1936, when it was designed as a
Bathhouse and built as a WPA public works project.
Indoor activities at the Highbridge Recreation Center
become unavailable to neighborhood residents every summer, as it
converts from a place of education and community into locker and
changing rooms for the daily rush of 2,400 swimmers who come to spend
hot summer days at the pool.
By constructing Splash House, we’ll be freeing up the indoor
recreation space to give permanence to this community center where
abundant youth activities are key to the many children who live in this
densely populated New York City neighborhood.
We have spent this spring semester drawing, modeling, and refining
our design. Splash House has developed as a mixture of fun and function,
and we are confident that it will be a great benefit for the Washington
Heights community. With unanimous approval by the Community Board, we
are excited to start building.

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About this projectMAKE A SPLASH!
The Highbridge Pool and Recreation Center is an invaluable place for kids to play and learn. Yet
for several months every summer the Washington Heights community is
denied this critical resource when the facility is converted into locker
rooms for the Highbridge Park Swimming Pool.
We are the Design Workshop,
a group of graduate architecture students from Parsons School of Design
eager to make a difference and learn a lot in the process.
Support us in creating a new pool pavilion for the Washington Heights
Community to keep the recreation center open for indoor play year
round!
PROJECT
We've designed Splash House, a new pool-deck pavilion for the
Highbridge Park Pool in the Washington Heights neighborhood of New York
City. It is a space where swimmers can change and safely store
belongings, and we're ready to construct it ourselves this summer.
We need your help! All donations will go towards procuring building
materials for Splash House; everything from screws to steel beams.
The Design Workshop voluntarily designs and builds projects every
year for not-for-profit organizations. This year, Parsons has worked
with NYC Parks and Recreation and the City Parks Foundation
to develop Splash House. The Highbridge Recreation Center is
historically significant, dating from 1936, when it was designed as a
Bathhouse and built as a WPA public works project.
Indoor activities at the Highbridge Recreation Center
become unavailable to neighborhood residents every summer, as it
converts from a place of education and community into locker and
changing rooms for the daily rush of 2,400 swimmers who come to spend
hot summer days at the pool.
By constructing Splash House, we’ll be freeing up the indoor
recreation space to give permanence to this community center where
abundant youth activities are key to the many children who live in this
densely populated New York City neighborhood.
We have spent this spring semester drawing, modeling, and refining
our design. Splash House has developed as a mixture of fun and function,
and we are confident that it will be a great benefit for the Washington
Heights community. With unanimous approval by the Community Board, we
are excited to start building.
We need your help to make it possible! Please donate and be a part of
our efforts to build Splash House! All donations are tax-deductible and
will go towards purchasing the materials to build this project!
We will greatly thank you!