San Juan Hill was once a thriving African American Community in the 1920s, destroyed to create the Lincoln Center Performing Arts Center.
Our site analysis shows that although local residents pay for the upkeep of the facilities and Damrosch Park, the architecture provides a barrier preventing those in the affordable housing complex to walk into the site.
Our proposal involves removing the current Damrosch park landscape to create a public setting
Our proposal is to introduce porosity into the wall preventing circulation between the citizens and the park.
The park will be converted to an open sound-garden, following the grid of the original African-American and Puerto Rican community that was displaced for Lincoln Centers construction.
The four new structures provide housing for Lincoln Centers visiting performers, who will in-return provide music education for the low-income children during their stay.
rear-looking balconies provide outdoor locations for concerts and small gatherings between master artists and students.
The contrast in size between the performing arts center and the Lincoln Center complex recognizes the community displaced to construct Lincoln Center and the community which created some of Jazz's great artists such as Thelonious Monk.