The Digital Water Pavilion (Battery Park City Community Center) is a 55,000 square foot building conceived as a ‘built landscape’ situated at the base of two new residential towers in Battery Park City’s North Neighborhood. The primary architectural feature of the new Center is a curving, 550-foot long glass arcade wall facing West Street immediately north of Ground Zero. The arcade wall will feature a patterned interpretation of a composition, ‘WaTER’, commissioned from New York City composer Michael Schumacher. The glass wall sits opposite two swimming pools and a gymnasium inside the building and two ballfields and a soccer field outside the building. A new public promenade follows the curve of the arcade adjacent to the ballfields, allowing public passage north to south from Murray to Warren Streets and providing viewing and access to the fields themselves.
Listen to WaTER here:
The arcade is opened in three locations as public courtyards. Visitors can hear ‘WaTER’ through their smart phones. The WaTER score is being continously updated and the composition will be posted here as we tweak the sound piece. Victoria Meyers architect's book, Shape of Sound', will have a sound piece, based on the wavelengths of light related to the colors of each chapter's heading. Check in to this blog for postings of the sound score for Victoria's book.
Digital Water i-Pavilion by Victoria Meyers and hanrahanMeyers architects : view of north courtyard
Sound Urbanism/ Sound Ecology : Victoria Meyers architect
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