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Architecture for Humanity New York activates local, pro-bono creative professionals to deliver design and development solutions that respond to the needs of our community.  Our volunteers work to build a more sustainable future across the five boroughs of New York.

We believe that everyone deserves a well-designed environment. We strive to collaborate with local community organizations to develop and implement quality design solutions within their neighborhoods.

We thrive when we bring together communities, like-minded organizations, and design professionals to implement the visions of New York City's neighborhoods by Designing Like We Give A Damn!

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Featured Project

Lenox Hill Community House Roof Garden
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Chapter Project located in

New York City

United States
Miles Crettien approached AFHny for help developing schematic design documents for a green roof at the 117 year old settlement in the Upper East Side. The Lenox Hill Neighborhood House now provides social services, education, legal services, housing, health food, wellness programs and mental health services as well as early childhood development. The green roof would be a part of the Health Foods and Wellness program which has four target goals:
Education
Menu Planning
Community Outreach
Connecting clients with local farmers.
While our main audience for the green roof would be the children in the program age groups 3 to 4 and 5 to 13, the roof would benefit the entire Lenox Hill community. The main goals of the green roof are:
Provide hands on education/development opportunities for
Create dynamic space that inspires and transforms the way people look at food.
Bring together people in a beautiful space that makes them happy.
The vision:
Mixed use green space.
Extensive/intensive green roof and greenhouse.
Plant nursery and have year round classroom and growing in greenhouse.
We anticipate this project to take about 2 or 3 months to measure and draw the existing conditions, produce schematic design drawings and renderings.