IMAGINATION PAVILION: DESIGN FOR PLAY

Imagination Pavilion — a winning Newburgh: Design For Play submission — launched on Saturday, October 10, 2020 at Newburgh Free Library (124 Grand Street, Newburgh NY). Thank you for all the children who helped to paint!

The pavilion will be used as a stage for shadow puppets, story time and other events including the Harriet Tubman Journey to Freedom Celebration. Check out the Library’s website for more details!

Design Team
Starr Whitehouse Landscape Architects and Planners, @starrwhitehouse

Community Partners
Newburgh Free Library, with fabrication by Isaiah Valentine and Blanca’s Tailoring.

Project Description Imagination Pavilion is a kit of parts to assemble a friendly urban space for creativity. A canopy of umbrellas shades a flexible theater and play space for the child’s mind – storytime by day, shadow puppetry by night!! Designed with the dimensions of the angled parking on Broadway in downtown Newburgh in mind, the simple modular steel tube frame can be adapted to any site. The frame and pedestals, made of pipe fittings, easily disassemble, and the stage is on casters – making this pavilion ready to rove Newburgh’s public spaces. Our team welcomes the chance to partner with Newburgh’s performing arts educators, librarians, elementary school teachers, and others to develop this concept and discover the programs that will activate Imagination Pavilion.

Supporters
This project is made possible with generous support from Awesome Newburgh, the J.M. Kaplan Fund, and the Williams Legacy Foundation.