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Architecture studio CetraRuddy and the New York City Department of Design and Construction have released conceptual renderings of a Bronx jail with stepped volumes clad in perforated metal screens and retail spaces on ground level.
Located on the site of a former hospital and New York City Police impound lot, the eleven-storey Bronx Detention Center will contain 1,040 beds within its cell units, "outdoor recreation" areas and public retail space in its podium.
The Bronx Detention Center will be located at 745 East 141st Street and is one of four new, smaller jails set to be built throughout New York City boroughs in place of the Rikers Island jail complex, which is set to close in the coming years.
Architecture studios CetraRuddy, Lumen Architects, Urbahn Architects and Transformative Reform Group are working on the Bronx project with the New York City Department of Design and Construction (DDC).
Images show a curved base clad in beige terracotta. A short tower above the base folds inwards along its sides, and is wrapped in a layered envelope made of perforated metal screen, metal mesh and aluminium fins.
Towards the building's back, the tower massing steps down. According to the team, the tiered volume was designed to respond to the surrounding site, which sits between the raised Bruckner Expressway highway and an industrial and residential area of the East Mott Haven neighbourhood.