The Green Carceri, designed by TARQUITECTOS, arises as a natural extension of the High Line Park, connecting himself with the High Line and flying over the river, thus enabling a continuation of the public space underneath with the neighborhood to the height of the street and the docks. Winding around a series of vertical communication cores, the building allows both internal transit users and visitors to descend to the level of the street without having to enter the building. More images and architects’ description after the break.
We understand that the High Line Park can be considered as a real plant structure in the city, that with its consolidation has branched out and created new shoots and buds at their ends in the form of building program and public space. The Green Carceri would be one of these buds or branches, which are able to maintain the configuration of the branch that develops original but particularly adapted to a given functional and programmatic needs. The mixed program of the building includes a botanical research center, a library and a residential area, inserting a suspended mass of vegetation in an urban green space of significant size.
