SENDERO VERDE
NEW YORK CITY, NY
Sendero Verde is at the heart of East Harlem. The mixed-use affordable housing project hosts a courtyard for future development users to share. The half-acre rooftop courtyard will provide residents, students, and visitors a vital place to experience the multi-building complex by providing an intensive and lush landscape experience as well as a vibrant urban amenity for the neighboring community.
The project includes a playground, and interpretive learning vegetation garden, outdoor art and science gardens for a proposed charter school; exercise zones for a preventive health facility, and a raised stage with an amphitheater for outdoor performances. At street level, the relocation of four existing community gardens will tie seamlessly into the project site, as well as the neighborhood of East Harlem.
The Principles of Good Urban Design, an illustrated guidebook that makes New York City’s urban design principles clear and accessible to the public. Sendero Verde has been included in the guidebook under design for Large-scale Development, following the principles provided in the guidebook on what urban design means, and how planners consider everything from public input to environmental needs to a neighborhood’s history and culture to craft design recommendations that enhance communities.
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Jonathan Rose Companies, L&M Development, The Acacia Network
Handel Architects, Lighting Workshop, Steven Winter Associates, DeSimone Engineering, Cosentini
Albert Vecerka for Esto Photo
Dreamscape Aerials
Completed 2024