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Bronx Children's Museum
Located on the banks of the Harlem River, the Bronx Children's Museum aims to engage children with the connectivity of urban culture and the natural world. We aim to catalyze the site's position between city grid and tidal river with a Museum Architecture of organic flow inside the rectangular frame of the existing historic powerhouse - a new kind of space unlike the city's cellular rooms and street grids, connecting to the geometry and experience of the natural landscape and waterfront.
Site
The Bronx, with 25% green area and 75 miles of shoreline, is the greenest Borough of New York.
Located on the banks of the Harlem River, the historic former Bronx Market Powerhouse offers an ideal site for the Bronx Children’s Museum. Between the city street grid and the tidal river, the site resonates with the Museum’s mission of engaging children with
the connectivity of urban culture and the natural world.
Located on the banks of the Harlem River, the historic former Bronx Market Powerhouse offers an ideal site for the Bronx Children’s Museum. Between the city street grid and the tidal river, the site resonates with the Museum’s mission of engaging children with
the connectivity of urban culture and the natural world.
The architecture of organic flow resonates with Jean Piaget's discoveries in The Child's Conception of Space: "prior to organizing a projective and Euclidean space, the child starts by building up and using certain primitive relationships such as proximity and separation, order and enclosure."
Concept
Model Photo
Floor Plan
View from Reception to Exhibition Space
Welcome area
View under The Cloud
Crawl Space
Inside The Cloud
Powerhouse building with new signage
