Architecture studio BIG has unveiled plans to adapt a decommissioned power plant in Connecticut, USA, into a community centre on a site to be reimagined by landscape studio Scape.
The project on Manresa Island ? a peninsula that juts into the Long Island Sound outside of Norwalk, Connecticut, will see the overhaul of a 1950s power plant that was decommissioned in 2013, after sustaining critical damage from Hurricane Sandy.
BIG and landscape architecture studio Scape have released plans to rehabilitate a Connecticut island
It will form the centrepiece of Scape's scheme, which will see the landscaping of 125 acres of land on the site, including remediation as the site was subject to repeated spills and damage from the coal and oil-run power plant.
The structure itself will be transformed into a community centre by BIG. BIG is set to convert a power plant into a community centre. Image by BIG
Renderings show three glass-and-steel buildings with overhangs on the ground floors supported by thin pilotis and topped with green roofs.
Interior features include swimming pools and a series of terraces that jut out from the largest of the structures.
The community centre will feature indoor and outdoor swimming pools
The large smokestack on the site will be kept, with BIG founder Bjarke Ingels likening it to a "post-modern cathedral".
"Manresa Island is set to become a much-needed foothold for the public along the otherwise rather privatized Connecticut coastline," ...