23.7.2008

121st Police Precinct Stationhouse by Rafael Viñoly

Construction of the 121st Police Precinct on Staten Island receives an Art Commission of the City of New York Award for Excellence in Design.

Rafael Viñoly Architects’ 121st Police Precinct, a project of the Department of Design and Construction and the New York Police Department to be constructed on Staten Island, has received an Art Commission of the City of New York Award for Excellence in Design. For twenty-six years, the Art Commission, New York City’s design review agency, has recognized outstanding public projects that exemplify «the highest design standards,» selected from among the hundreds of submissions the Commission reviews each year. This year’s awards were presented last night by Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg at the New York Times Center in Manhattan.

The project’s award citation stated
Serving the fastest-growing borough in New York City, the 121st Police Precinct is Staten Island’s first new precinct headquarters in decades, and the first police facility in New York City to seek LEED Silver certification. The building is designed to achieve an energy cost reduction of 25%, and site work includes high-albedo recycled asphalt pavement in driving lanes, permeable surfacing in low-traffic parking spots, and five bio-retention cells that capture almost all of the rain that falls within this property, in order to reduce the amount of water that enters the sewer system. The harvested water infiltrates the soil, and once filtered of pollutants by the local plant life, is used to sustain these same plants, all of which are native and adaptive to the local climate.

The building is composed of two distinct masses that respond to the irregular site and are distinguished by differing heights, unique surface treatments, and a skylight over the interstitial space that brings natural light into the ground-floor lobby. A one-story volume, where the site flares outward to the south, is clad in grey brick. A two-story linear bar in stainless steel gently arcs in plan, and gradually increases in height as it approaches Richmond Avenue. The second floor cantilevers toward the avenue, symbolically reaching out to the community while defining the building’s main entrance. The long bar structure also shields the residential neighborhood to the north from the police parking lot to the south. Outdoor mechanical services are concealed within the building form, integrated in an enclosure clad in the same stainless steel.

Rafael Viñoly Architects’ project director for the building is Fred Wilmers, AIA, LEED AP, who also led the firm’s Bronx County Hall of Justice project team. Scheduled to go out for bid in October, construction will begin in spring 2009.

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