Competition: ENYA

Awarded the Student Prize for The Harlem Edge | Cultivating Connection Competitions organized by Emerging New York Architects (ENYA).

The design proposes a new typology for both the city and the role of the transfer station. The bounds of the program must be expanded to become larger than just a facility for Nourishing NYC; instead, it is an act of uniting the city and its parks, which have been disconnected through typical infrastructural practices. The Stairway to Harlem proposes a unification of the city fabric and its trade route through an expanded experience and through the mission of Nourishing NYC, an outreach for nutritional health.

Rather than a transfer station of waste, the new station becomes a series of productive landscapes through community gardens, vertical greenhouses, educational & cultural programs, markets, and its sustainable shipping port. The new territory of Nourishing NYC becomes an innovative and energetic place for the growth, education, and dispersal of healthy foods.

The once isolated waste transfer station is transformed into a productive educational campus that reconnects the citizens of New York City back to the river through its expansion of the park system and as an active, sustainable, and educational shipping port.

The once isolated waste transfer station is transformed into a productive educational campus that reconnects the citizens of New York City back to the river through its expansion of the park system and as an active, sustainable, and educational shipping port.