We invest a minimum of 10% of our resources to pro bono projects
Ten to One invests a minimum of 10% of our resources to pro bono projects which support equitable and sustainable civic engagement projects, contributing a half million dollars in services throughout our 10 year history.
We have successfully completed, from fundraising through construction, such projects as the Pan American Public Charter School and Congreso de Latinos Unidos Library Community Workshop and the Ember Public Charter High School currently in construction, as well as the Bedford Stuyvesant Racial Equity and Community Innovative Campus and Start Lighthouse City-wide Public School Library design and implementation strategy currently in development with the first to open this Fall.
Our projects collectively build a more sustainable and equitable city
Start Lighthouse library hubs opening in the Bronx and expanding throughout New York City’s Public Schools in progress
Our clients are co-contributors in social investment
Beggar's Wharf Arts Complex
As design equity particularly in school construction becomes a primary focus for Ten to One, we are strategizing for our next pro bono frontier to be holistic sustainability such as is embodied in the urban ecologies and archi-structures of our Bathysphere project. This community space proposal upcycles latent el-space (underutilized space below and adjacent to elevated railways) as its site and the geothermal potential of the sewer system as its renewable energy source. The project is a prototypical demonstration of how a future holistic design can address socio-spatial and ecological issues and create a dynamic public platform.
Pro bono is a necessary means by which we deliver on our goal of design equity
One of our primary goals is to widen the audience of architecture
Bedford Stuyvesant Racial Equity & Community Innovation Campus
Ten to One’s core focus on design equity is implemented at a multitude of scales and shapes our practice and process. Diversity, equity and inclusivity can be manifest in project scope, team building, listening to and collaborating with constituencies and communities, spatial planning for inclusivity and accessibility, spatial design enabling and celebrating the individual within a social and environmental context, and the manifestations of details such as how a brick signifies unit, common and human-centric fabrication and assembly.
We have contributed a half million dollars in services throughout our 10 year history
Stakes are high and budgets are low
