Carroll Hall Garden and Event Space

Bushwick, Brooklyn
10,000 sqft, Completed 2020

Carroll Hall is a hidden botanical walled garden and series of buildings that explore material reuse of the site and ideas of time travel and ecology to create immersive, unlikely experiences. Visitors continually discover the unexpected within an architecture of crafted materials and unconventional construction techniques. The buildings breathe with automated windows and skylights to naturally ventilate. Handmade mosaic murals tell stories of underground creatures. There are moving walls and secret doors. The plants are an idealized woodland, dressed-up cousins of what might have grown along the edges of fields and farms past. Birds, bees and butterflies are invited back. Fountains and water features collect and recycle stormwater for irrigation. The project whole does not exist without its parts. There is interdependence between plants, animals, people, and architecture. It is a rare and highly specific formal space in New York City.

Photos: Amy Barkow