Student Work
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Title
Eat Right, Sleep Tight | Urban Kitchen & Residential
Project Description
The project focuses on reviving Coney Island’s glory by utilizing food as a driving force to shift its identity from a junk food amusement park zone to a tourist attraction, and linking the two ends to the middle zone through the boardwalk.
Consists of a co-living building on the west side, a hotel on the east side, and a public program related to Coney Island’s food culture. The market underneath the buildings brings back the “under the boardwalk” culture and flips it to face the city. The center building has a kitchen lab, a cafe, a restaurant, and a roof garden. The project extends the boardwalk to hug around the building to create an enclave space in front of the building for small food carts to stop.
Hence, by reimagining Coney Island as a destination for food, community, and innovation, our project brings back its former glory and creates a model for sustainable, inclusive tourism that benefits both locals and visitors alike.