Backdoors.
an afterschool program.
at Brooklyn Public Library, Bushwick.
How can essential working families benefit from urban flight in New York and occupy new space through temporary architecture? Partnered to the Brooklyn Public Library, this project reorients the institution through a backdoor pavilion better relating to the neighborhood demographic. The intervention takes on the identity of green plywood closets erected by construction permit in New York City. When deployed, an inflatable kit of parts is manually inflated and configured to a series of programmatic offerings: the Back Room, the Back Stage, and the Back Porch.
an afterschool program.
at Brooklyn Public Library, Bushwick.
How can essential working families benefit from urban flight in New York and occupy new space through temporary architecture? Partnered to the Brooklyn Public Library, this project reorients the institution through a backdoor pavilion better relating to the neighborhood demographic. The intervention takes on the identity of green plywood closets erected by construction permit in New York City. When deployed, an inflatable kit of parts is manually inflated and configured to a series of programmatic offerings: the Back Room, the Back Stage, and the Back Porch.
Each with library offerings that
change from childoriented programs during the day and parent or family programs at night.
Further provocation speculates on these closets
deployed throughout the rest of the neighborhood across the vacant storefronts of the halted gentrifying
area. It creates a covert identity masking a playful
deployment of temporary architecture for the true surrounding community character.
Studio Instructor: Toshiko Mori. 2021.
Studio Instructor: Toshiko Mori. 2021.