Liberty Landing represents an innovative approach to housing, converting a former women's prison into 146 units of 100% affordable housing, thus addressing urban housing needs.
The Bayview Correctional Facility, operated from 1971 and abandoned post-Hurricane Sandy in 2012, has a history as a YMCA rooming house, illustrating drastic neighborhood transformations.
The building's unique nine-story structure, originally designed by Shreve, Lamb and Harmon, poses design challenges but also offers a promising opportunity for adaptive reuse.
Designers CookFox Architects faced difficulties in reusing the prison cells due to room sizes, yet they found a creative path to convert the building into efficient apartments.
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