Gans & Company // Design Team – Gans & Co, Nancy Owens Studio
Brooklyn, NY // June 2018 – October 2019
Under the guidance of the NYC DDC Design Excellence program, this project is a renovation of the damaged and failing retaining walls of the Brooklyn Children’s Museum Garden. The project sought to replace the poorly draining courtyard with a ‘high performance’ landscape of geo-grid reinforced sloping soil and plantings to provide a space for outdoor learning at the museum. Geological site features such as boulder erratica and crevasse reference the themes of the museum’s permanent exhibits.
As the project architect I served as the day to day manager for schematic design and design development phases, coordinating between the DDC project team and our consultants (Landscape Architecture, Civil, MEP, Geotechnical Engineering).
Adam Achrati 