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HEALTHJOX FOUNDATION, INC NONPROFIT HEALTHJOX FACILITY Located at 1322 Bedford Avenue between Atlantic Avenue and Paci c Street in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City, United States. The 23rd Regiment Armory, also known as the Bedford Atlantic Armory, the Marcy Avenue Armory, and the Williamsburg Armory, is a historic National Guard armory building

HEALTHJOX FOUNDATION, INC NONPROFIT HEALTHJOX FACILITY The 23rd Regiment Armory

This facility will be state of the art HEALTHJOX and will house the following: FOUNDATION, INC • Sports Museums representing 5 boroughs regarding (Tennis, Basketball & Football) NONPROFIT • Professional race track • Professional Basketball Courts (8) • Professional Olympic Size Pool (2) • Professional Tennis Courts (8) • Professional Exercise Gym/Aerobics • TUMBLE Huge Bouncy Room • Rock climbing wall • Obstacle Course • Paintball Structures • Vegan/Vegetarian Kitchens/Restaraunt • Marijuana Plant Facility (Greenhouse) • Bottling Plant • Classrooms for Mental Health • Athletic Stores • Performance Room (5k capacity) • Entertainment Deck/Roof Top • Full Media Building (live broadcasting) • After School Programs/Summer Jobs • Movie Theater • Bowling Lanes • Night Club (Non-Alcoholic) (strictly for dance-battles and socializ- ing) (18yrs+) • Bus Shuttle from Atlantic Terminal every 15-mins for a special fee. • Amazing manicured gardens around the facility • Solar Panels for Energy • No touch screen

HEALTHJOX VERTICAL FOREST Inspired by Architect and urban planner, Stefano Boeri OBJECTVE: To transition Brooklyn into the Health & Sports Metropolis of New York City. Introducing the concept of biodiversity in architecture to Brooklyn. HealthJox’s plan is to help solve a problem in the world... we will start with Brooklyn. Our goal is to prove how architecture could help solve climate change. The way a building is constructed determines the way we use it. If the windows are large and let in a lot of sunlight, we tend to use the daylight instead of arti cial light. On the other hand, small windows with poor ventilation encourage us to turn on the lights and air conditioning more, even if the weather is good. The focus on the relationship between city and nature leads to the creation of Vertical Forest, the rst prototype of a sustainable residential building with facades covered with trees and plants: a model of metropoli- tan reforestation that conceives vegetation as an essential element of architecture. A further solution for the problem would be integrating solar panels (or other renewable energy generators) directly into the construction plans from the beginning. In result, more people would have the chance of utiliz- ing these resources without having to directly invest in them. Additionally, the possibility of the panels looking unattractive or un tting from the view of the tenants could be eliminated. Fighting Climate Change Through Forestation.

Another way to help the nature is to add plants and gardens to According to Stefano Boeri, the plan is buildings, in cities thus creating a symbiosis between humans to move the forest into the cities which and nature, to try to return the balance of nature to its original are toxic. Cities consume 75% of the state. This is crucial since many cities have problems with air world’s natural resources and, despite polution and the fact that more than 80,000 acres of forest are taking up just 2% of the global land lost every day. Therefore planting more trees in cities could at surface, are responsible for over 70% of least compensate a part of the loss. If this would turn into a global CO2 emissions. Through plant- new international standard, it could cause a signi cant change ing more trees in urban spaces (along for the better. For example the architecture company Ste ano with, say, creating new parks and turn- Boeri Architetti has been researching this topic for a while now. ing city roofs into vegetable gardens), it It is currently building several “vertical forests”in di erent areas may be possible to curb the damage. In of the world. According to them, one building could compen- essence, it’s about tasking these serial sate for nearly ve acres of lost forestland, while even helping offenders with finding their own solu- insulate the building more. tions. I therefore came to the conclusion that well planned and inno- vative architecture could in fact compensate for some of the problems humanity has caused to nature and so help restore the natural balance between nature and civilization, hence helping counter climate change. “We saw birds that fell from the sky” – this is how Josh Gabba- tiss entitles his article for Independent. The journalist analyzes the “new plague” striking our planet and looks at the global cities employing dynamic and innovative strategies to part ways with particles. “Air pollution is a serious global concern, linked by the World Health Organisation (WHO) to over 5.5 million deaths every year. It has been described as a greater threat to the world population than malaria and HIV combined”.

HealthJox wants to use architecture to drive more into the realms of sustainability.” --Dewry Bradford, Founder of HealthJox HealthJox Vertical Forest, will be a health & sports facility & health shopping complex composed by a 5 oors shopping mall with a series of rising terraces with rooftop gardens at each level. The building will be designed like a large city park, a natural intervention that improves Brooklyn’s dense urban environment. HealthJox Vertical Forest will be a vital green oasis; list of open-air room designed to let in the daylight, while the building is insolated enough that the heat in the winter and the cold in the summer stays inside, the amount of required energy signi cantly drops. In addition to carbon dioxide, the leaves of the trees would also absorb the pollutant micro-par- ticles created as a result of urban tra c and so would help clean the air in Brooklyn, as well as producing oxygen in turn. This will reduce fuel consumption and therefore the human impact on the environment.

According to a book which published a piece of research by Alehandro Zaera Polo which explained that 94% of the tall buildings in the world built after 2000 were covered in glass. Glass and mineral skins in an increasingly artificial and mineral city. From this artical paired with the apiphany of Architect and urban planner, Stefano Boeri , I decided to created the Health- Jox Vertical Forest which will be a buildingcovered not in glass but in leaves – leaves of plants, shrubs, but especially the leaves of trees. With this structure, the plan is to noticeably reduce energy consumption thanks to the filter that a façade of leaves exerts on the sunlight plus the microclimate that is creat- ed on the balconies, which reduces the di erence in tempera- ture between the inside and the outside of the apartments by about 3 degrees. HealthJox Vertical Forest’s plan is to give a fun- damental contribution to high-rise buildings also in terms of sustainability and innovation, projects that enhance the cities and the life quality of their inhabitants.



China is promoting an experimental plan that aims to tackle climate change and air pollution. The municipality of Liuzhou has approved last year the project of the first Forest City designed by Stefano Boeri Architetti for a city entirely covered by vegetation. Designed for 30,000 people, the city is provided with all facilities and infrastructure, such as offices, hotels, hospitals, schools; 40,000 trees and one milion plants of hundred different species able to absorb tons of CO2 and pollutants. the use of geothermal energy for heating and solar-panelled roofs for air conditioning. The green system of the city is able to decrease the aver- age air temperature, create acoustic barriers and enhance biodiversity.

“Urban forestry is not only necessary to improve the environment of the world’s cities, but also an opportunity to improve the living conditions of less fortunate city dwellers”, according to Architect Boeri.

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