SPLASH HOUSE by Design Workshop 2011

The 2011 Design Workshop, a collective of nine Parsons School of Design graduate students, is prepared to build a major enhancement to the pool and recreation center in Highbridge Park. The project would free space in the recreational center building for many activities. Currently the building is used as a locker room and changing area during the summer.

Using the popular fundraising website, KickStarter.org, the group is aiming for $15,000 by June 1st to make the expansion of the pool facilities a reality. As of May 26th only $12,000 had been pledged, with less than a week left to raise money....

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Via: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/777690743/splash-house

Text from group's Kickstarter.org website:

"The Highbridge Pool and Recreation Center is an invaluable place for kids to play and learn. Yet for several months every summer the Washington Heights community is denied this critical resource when the facility is converted into locker rooms for the Highbridge Park Swimming Pool.

We are the Design Workshop, a group of graduate architecture students from Parsons School of Design eager to make a difference and learn a lot in the process.

Support us in creating a new pool pavilion for the Washington Heights Community to keep the recreation center open for indoor play year round!"

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Nonprofits & Activism

Tags:

• Parsons
• Washington Heights
• Design Workshop
• 2011
• Highbridge Park
• Highbridge Pool
• Pool
• Pools
• Community Center
• Swimming
• Water
• Design
• Parsons School of Design
• Architecture