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DESCRIPTION
Based in the 79th Precinct of Brooklyn, New York, the Bed-Stuy Community Justice Center seeks to simultaneously become an addition to the existing community court network within New York City as well as amplify the local community resources within proximity to the block it inhabits: youth programs, jobs, and food security.
Taking influence from the established community court model, this version of its program prioritizes community based accountability and civilian oversight to facilitate a space for resolving issues at multiple legal scales. For example these could be, housing disputes, restraining orders, assualt, misdemeanors, and hypothetically even complaints involving local law enforcement.
This proposal is a synthesis of community resources collected together to be a multi purpose campus-like structure that allows for scheduled use (court cases, legal aid, after school programs) or spontaneous use (Community fridges, open cafeteria, general gathering).
SITE
SITE
This Proposal mainly takes place on the block between Willoughby Ave and Myrtle Ave.
The courthouse itself occupies an empty lot on the corner of Nostrand Ave and Willoughby Ave.
In between the block there is an elevated path allowing for circulation through the middle of the block, with the Community Court program allocated along it.
This block was chosen because of its existing open spaces as well as the existing circumstances within an additional block radius.
Circumstances such as:
The food distribution center located at the United Grand chapel
P.S. 054 Samuel C. Barnes School
The Brooklyn Job Corp. located at the Home Depot
Taking these into consideration, to maintain the courthouse's neutral presence, it hosts spaces for these circumstances within it to bolster their presence within the area, enhancing the courthouse's capability to facilitate interaction between the people and program that surround it.
Site View
Site View
Circulation
Circulation
The elevated bridge in between the warehouse and the courthouse allow for anyone to traverse from Myrtle Ave to Willoughby Ave in any way they please.
Program
Program
Renders
Renders
Exterior
Exterior
Plans
Plans
Elevation
Elevation
North + South Sections
North + South Sections
Cross section
Cross section
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