YMCA

The brief for a YMCA in Coney Island called for a building that is highly public, yet effective in breaking down the over-sized scale of its immediate urban context.

The design riffs off this urban context, wrapping programmatic requirements along two “streets” cut into an otherwise dense massing. The interplay of “block” ”against empty volume is expressed at various scales; with brick detail, in fenestration,    and in massing.