Brooklyn Bridge Park Pop-Up Pool
Brooklyn, NY
a collaborative design effort for the Brooklyn Bridge Park’s Pop-up Pool
Spacesmith and Davis Brody Bond are pleased to announce the completion of a collaborative design effort for the Brooklyn Bridge Park’s Pop-up Pool. Rising off of the greenway on the uplands of Pier 2, the 30’ x 50’ pool is accompanied by a 2,500 sf sandy beach area supplied with lounge chairs and colorful umbrellas. An adjacent concrete plaza contains picnic tables, more umbrellas and a food and drink concession. Amenities such as showers, restroom and lockers are also provided.
The design utilizes repurposed stacked shipping containers painted in eye catching colors to act as a screening buffer from the noise of the nearby BQE and to also provide onsite storage. Adjacent to the pool is an area filled with beach sand and planted with saw grass to enhance the beach mood.
A plaza area contains a food concession and is decorated with bright graphics to further enliven the facility. Given that the pool is temporary amenity for the next five years, it was necessary to limit the scope of construction and to use as much of the existing site features as possible. To that end, foundations and slabs from previously demolished buildings were incorporated into the design and the pool and beach area were raised to avoid any excavation.
The Pop-up Pool provides a much needed oasis for all park visitors during the hot summer months and with the adjacent sandy beach and concession, it makes for a very unique park experience.
“I think it was a really great idea to come up with instead of leaving the land unused until development. This was something that would give back to the community and would compliment the uses of the park, being right on the water.”