Urbahn planned and designed
this conversion to guide a developer in a lease-back arrangement with
the NYC Board of Education. This adaptive reuse project was unusual
in many respects. It involved the gut renovation of an abandoned and
deteriorated circa 1900 vaudeville theater in the Bushwick section
of Broooklyn. While the historic façade was designed for restoration,
the entire interior – including the structural frame, all walls and
floors, and the building systems were removed and replaced. The result
is a 6-story,
85,000 square foot facility accommodating 600 high school students.
The project involved the creation of six new floors within the existing
building shell, carefully aligned to take maximum advantage of the
tall existing window openings. To accommodate the program, we designed
a rooftop addition.
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