The Transferium

This project takes a bold approach in proposing a multi-layered waterfrontdevelopment. An underground fulfillment and distribution center, which can bereached by water or land, is structurally capped by a generous waterfront park.Repurposing the City’s historic and vacant warehouse building provides muchneeded affordable housing. The building’s ground floor and park frontage isactivated as a market with fresh produce and other products delivered directly fromland and sea.

“Over the past decade, many of Long Island City’s historic industrial buildings havebeen bulldozed to make way for a dystopian collection of anonymous glass towers.No other neighborhood in the entire country has had as many luxury apartmentsbuilt in the last eight years, and no other neighborhood in New York City has seenits landscape changed as much by rezoning and redevelopment.”(1)

Industrial development typically stands in direct conflict with public open space andhousing. We have developed a typology, where rather than privatizing the coastline,our mixed-use industrial development opens up physical, visual, economic, andequitable access to a resilient waterfront.