Already a week ago I first set foot on fresh NYC concrete. To get the right materials to work with, we from 2012Architects always try to find the most local recourses available. In this case, we cooperated with the Green Worker Cooperatives, a Bronx based company specialized in secondhand building materials. Going around their warehouse was like a ‘kid in the candy store’ experience, seeing all the ’superuse’ potential :-)
It definitely was an experience racing down the highway with the u-haul, filled up with our recently purchased goods, trying to make the ferry. Once on the island, you enter another world of peaceful quiet parks, Victorian houses and blue shirt security guards. On Friday, Floris, a New York based sustainability expert and I started building, figuring out the construction details and playing with our 700 cans of paint. Things went well, I’m happy and definitely exited about the festival, the views, and of course, NYC by night ;-) More to follow!
gr Dirk, 2012Architects