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Brooklyn Flagship Building Mental Health and Social Services Clinic Brooklyn, NY
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An old Con Edison sub-station located in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn is being rehabilitated and expanded to house a neighborhood mental health clinic, two special population day treatment programs and centralized administrative facilities for the Jewish Board of Family and Children's Services as it consolidates its community-based services into a coordinated managed-care model of operation.
Six separate existing programs located throughout south-central Brooklyn were initially evaluated for inclusion in this facility. The final program mix was arrived at by creating a matrix of space needs, operational hours, potential for shared services or spaces, and the need for client separation or privacy for each program, then matching the optimal mix of programs with the potential available space. To accomodate the programs, two floors will be inserted within the existing building shell and a small addition created at the roof level. The design vocabulary was derived from the existing early twentieth-century industrial structure with subdividedspaces created from simple drywall and concrete block forms. Lightwells within the new structure will allow natural light from the skylights to filter down to the lowest building level. Other energy efficient features which also contribute to the user's comfort will include indirect lighting, individual temperature-control of airconditioning and new insulated windows. The 24,700 square foot facility will be completed in 1997 at an estimated construction cost of $2.6 million. |
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For more information contact:
Lee Harris Pomeroy Associates / Architect
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