Lowline undergroung living space.

Idea how to build a park underground New York.

Architect James Ramsey and Dan Barasch, have built a full-scale model of what they're calling the Lowline, a park in an abandoned subway station below Delancey Street. The underground space, built in 1903, hasn't been touched since 1948 and includes details such as granite cobblestones, rail tracks and vaulted ceilings.
 Because the park would be indoors, lighting becomes an obvious challenge. To get around that, the park co-creators invented a technology to bring natural light underground. The technology, called a "remote skylight," captures natural sunlight from the surface and then channels it underground through fiber-optic cable, generating enough light to grow plants, trees and grass, even underground.
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The former Williamsburg Trolley Terminal was opened in 1903, as a depot for streetcars ferrying passengers between Williamsburg and the Lower East Side.  It was in service until 1948 when streetcar service was discontinued, and has not been used ever since.  Despite six decades of neglect, the space still retains some incredible features, like remnant cobblestones, crisscrossing rail tracks and vaulted ceilings.  It is also directly adjacent to the existing JMZ subway track– so park visitors and subway riders would interact daily.

the space now..

• With substantial renovations, the Lowline site can indeed be transformed from its disused state into a stunning new design
• A new public space would help provide a much needed cultural and social amenity for Lower East Side residents
• A new destination in the neighborhood would help support local businesses
• The Lowline could help facilitate a greatly improved transit hub
• Viable programming includes youth activities, cultural events, and popular retail
• Following capital construction, the space could be self-sustaining as an iconic cultural institution

 The remote skylight will use a reflective, parabolic solar collection dish outdoors to gather and concentrate sunlight. This dish will have a tracking mechanism so it can follow the sun across the sky. Fiber-optic cable will transmit captured solar radiation to the park; a series of domelike fixtures will use lenses and reflectors to distribute the light throughout the Lowline. The fiber-optic cables will allow Lowline organisers to set up as many remote skylight fixtures as they like.