This book details design projects produced by students of the 15th Edward P. Bass Distinguished Visiting Architecture studio at the Yale School of Architecture, which investigated the role played by the Brooklyn Navy Yard in the history of manufacturing in the framework of its mission to foster economic vitality in New York City through job creation, promoting the city's modern industrial sector and its businesses, and connecting the community with the economic opportunity and resources of the Yard. The book includes conversations, essays, research findings, and projects related to issues of job creation, worker experience, urban equity, and environmental stewardship, as students developed ideas and solutions for the type of workplace needed in urban sites and how building design can impact urban job outcomes in a socially and environmentally equitable way. The book discusses the challenges and opportunities facing the studio, including the role of the Yard in historical and contemporary contexts and the role of the urban workplace; the master plan produced by the architects of Brooklyn Navy Yard in 2018; and the research findings, project concepts, and spatial designs of students. Annotation ©2022 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
The Innovative Urban Workplace documents the Edward P. Bass Distinguished Visiting Architecture Fellowship studio with Abby Hamlin, founder of Hamlin Ventures, Dana Tang (95), architect and partner at Gluckman Tang Architects, and Andrei Harwell, senior critic in architecture at Yale.
The studio investigated the role of the Brooklyn Navy Yard in New York City in order to understand and meet the BNYs mission and design distinctive solutions that speak to the type of workplace needed in an urban development today. Students in the studio identified potential urban business models that address future relationships between places of production and consumption. They looked at comparable waterfront development projects and addressed issues including flood mitigation and environmental remediation in their proposals.
