Brooklyn Housing and Aquatics Center
SGS partnered with SMJ Development, an MBE developer, in a joint venture for a new building on an underutilized 13,000 sf site in the Brownsville neighborhood of Brooklyn in response to an RFP for a client with a strong health and wellness mission. The resulting design introduces 64 new affordable housing units for seniors, a 10,000 sf aquatic center, and community facility spaces for OBHS, a health care center, and Exalt Youth, a non-profit working on education and juvenile justice. The building’s design expresses its modular construction and celebrates the building’s various programs using bold colors to create a clearly defined wayfinding to the various program elements throughout.
![Brooklyn Housing and Aquatics Center 1](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/oijb2tm8/production/6b0b0ec11b408926f2358954076b4d8e00483563-1440x836.jpg)
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![Brooklyn Housing and Aquatics Center 3](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/oijb2tm8/production/991ac5ad130a1f63d45930eb0f342d95648f8260-1440x810.jpg)
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