Made in Livonia
A New Transportation Hub for Livonia Ave, Brooklyn
This intervention seeks to reconcile mobility infrastructure at the scale of an urban block. The project begins by taking advantage of unused “soft sites” or vacant lots along the Triboro RX line and proposing to convert them into a sequence of parks linking Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx together in a “green corridor.” After tracing along the triboro rx line, Livonia ave station (between East New York and Brownsville Brooklyn) was settled as the most promising site to house an urban plan that combines housing and retail with light manufacturing. This latter feature is possible by taking advantage of the Triboro rail’s right-of-way thus allowing both commuter and commercial transportation to coexist. After observing the garment district’s decline and its presence in Manhattan being “priced out”, we propose that the garment district relocate onto our site creating an urban condition that is both a manufacturing campus and an amenity to the public. Finally, a new transportation hub stands at the center of this proposal acting as both the infrastructural mediator of disparate peoples and goods, and the symbolic architectural presence of a vibrant and new urban block in Brooklyn.