Station House
Toward a Community-Centered Police Station

Columbia University | GSAPP

critic  Jeanne Gang
Fall 2015

The project embodies ideas of equality, trust and security by creating diverse grounds and spaces with the “column structure”. Heterogeneous, non-scripted space of the landscape and parks provide opportunities for playful  and free decision making. The project is about exploring how this sets the stage for better more normalized relations between police and community. 
Suggested reforms to policing have recommended that cities focus more on to serve the well-being of  understanding of the issues that impacting residents including. Therefore, the building contains third program that is rehabilitation center. The project aims to make police work more as a social service. The rehabilitation center provides family support services, advocacy services, domestic violence and mental health services. 
The materials that have been used are wood and concrete. The more public spaces are wooden structures and the more public ones are concrete. In different parts of the building these two materials are colliding. The roof merges the three programs by creating common top for the column forest and people.