Size

Build: 105,000 sq. ft.

Year

2014

Status

Unbuilt

Client

Architectural League of New York & Center for Urban Future

Partners

Architecture League of New York

David Saladik

David Saladik

Senior Principal

David Saladik is a Senior Principal overseeing MASS’s international health portfolio. Having joined MASS in 2008 during the design of the Butaro District Hospital, his work over the last decade has been aimed at leveraging the built environment to improve health outcomes as well as engage and empower communities. He has spearheaded MASS’s expansion into new geographies focused on long-term health systems strengthening, establishing new offices in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and Monrovia, Liberia.

David currently co-leads MASS’s largest office in Kigali, Rwanda with more than 80 architects, landscape architects, and engineers. Notable recent projects for which he has served as Principal-in-Charge include the Samajik Health Science Institute & Research Centre, a 520-bed teaching hospital in Dhaka, Bangladesh; Norrsken Kigali House, an incubator for social entrepreneurs in Kigali, Rwanda; and the development of health facility standards with the Ministry of Health of Lagos State.

He has taught design studios at Northeastern University and Roger Williams rethinking primary care health centers to maximize positive social impact and resiliency. In parallel to this research, he led the design of the Family Health Center in McKinney, Texas - MASS’s first built US healthcare project.

As part of an initiative to garner political support for the under funded and over utilized library systems of New York, five firms were selected to re-envision different aspects for the future of the library systems. Weeks of immersion revealed that New York’s libraries perform as social infrastructure, a venue for local culture, and provide a crucial space in diverse neighborhoods.

New York Public Branch Libraries Revisiting, Sheepshead Bay Interior

Based on local constituencies, librarians, and contexts, seven library specializations were discovered and developed. Using the existing library structure, concepts for a Performing Arts and a Health oriented library in south Brooklyn were designed.

Rendering of the New York Public Branch Libraries Re-invisioning, Sheepshead Bay Exterior

If implemented at the scale of the city, each neighborhood would encompass a constellation of specialized libraries, performing like a university campus, and showcasing New York’s rich cultural diversity.

Rendering of New York Public Branch Libraries Revisiting, Proposal for the Coney Island building, Interior view
Rendering of New York Public Branch Libraries Revisiting, Proposal for the Coney Island building, Exterior view
Rendering of the New York Public Branch Libraries Re-envisioning, Coney Island farmers market interior