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The ambition of this project is to rid the park of responsibilities it can no longer sustain and to explore new freedoms and possibilities. Like many New York boroughs, Brooklyn has long been preoccupied with an architecture of social remedy; the relentless effacing of history, a specific, predictable and grotesque vanishing act. Williamsburg has become a soft-core gulag of luxury, the ultimate cost being that the "city" no longer exists, having been stretched from the migrant port to the affluent edge - "the collective narcissism of a demographic bubble". Paradoxically, this perpetual reinvention has permitted the way in which Williamsburg has been discovered and rediscovered. This present situation opens up the possibilities of being engaged in 2 parallel operations: Documenting the existing urban conditions, developing prototypes, philosophies, projects for a preserved and reconstituted city. All the while, dismantling and sabotaging that which we constitute as "protected" - the fallout shelter of preservation corroded by the toxic spill of modernization. If the urban condition in New York is pervasive, then urbanism is not about the new but merely about the more and the less - what replaces what has been taken away? The answer to this question is the central thesis for this proposal: A park replaced with a park, a pier replaced with a pier. The program, in this case is a suggestion. Knowing that in the life of a park, programs undergo constant change and re-evaluation. The more it works, the more it will be revised and reused in imaginative and spontaneous ways. Therefore, the scheme is a tactical proposal trying to deviate its benefit from the confluence of activities. The waterfront then becomes a mise-en-scene in 3 parts: 1.The public park 2.The beach 3.The concert pier. The connections between the three events produce effects and much enriched as eroded.
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