A panelized prefab home is built faster with a higher degree of accuracy and stricter tolerances enabling a more energy-efficient home in less time. Prefab panelized homes can be assembled on-site in two days, with less building waste (according to the National Association of Homebuilder’s panelized prefab reduces onsite waste by 80%), better quality, and predictable timelines and budgets. Something standard onsite construction cannot achieve. A faster building cycle also means a more rapid ROI, whether you’re renting, selling, or living in your new home.
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What does it mean to create space, to bring new meaning and definition to an existing site, to recreate the genius loci of an existing building, to change a sense of place? To explore this idea, and to ensure that a multiplicity of experiential qualities existed on the site, we decided to situate our intervention perpendicular to the governing axis.
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In bustling cities throughout the United States and the world, space is a premium, and renters complain about high prices. Many believe that micro-apartments answer this complaint and are looking at this growing trend as a possible solution. The micro-apartment offers a new option to young professionals living in city centers unwilling to pay top dollar to live with multiple roommates. Similarly, homeowners find that a well-designed layout can make up for the lack of space while keeping costs significantly lower than a traditional home.
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Offering up a variety of benefits, Accessory Dwelling Units (ADU's) can help increase a community's housing supply or an individual's livable space at a minimal cost. ADU's are a flexible solution for many single-family homes that need additional space.
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Warehouse 623 is the conversion of an existing two-story brick storage warehouse in Brooklyn’s Prospect Heights neighborhood. The new building program includes a ground floor commercial art gallery and café, with flexible artist and craftsman studios on the 2nd floor. The 2nd-floor workshop space will be rented out on a per desk/per month basis to accommodate the changing needs of Brooklyn artists.
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Concept House is an exploration of future expansion considering the growth of a family, the rezoning of a community, and the practicalities of phased construction. Through this exploration, the exiting home is renovated to accommodate the future addition while also creating an exterior porch which will turn into an interior atrium at a later point in time. The atrium connects the existing home with the proposed addition of expanding family living, study, and community space.
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The all-weather public promenade residing under and around the museum space has its environment 'dotted' with wooden columns allowing one to walk through the woods while within a city center. Enclosed within this wooded forest are two informal, stepped theaters for performance and viewing the water.
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The unique opportunity to create a large-scale, innovative, high-density development in the heart of Brownstone, Brooklyn, is scarce. As such, we sought to propose an alternative solution to Ratner’s 'City-In-The-Park' scheme. A solution that creates a series of urban spaces to complement the adjacent neighbor's vibrant street life while responding in scale to the existing context of Brooklyn's Brownstone typology through a series of enlarging porous structures.
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The London 2012 Olympics were a crucial turning point in urban planning and how we view the legacy plans of large international sporting events. The proposed redevelopment of East London following the Olympics was one of the primary reasons London won its Olympic bid.
London Legacy focused on the redevelopment of a single part of the legacy plan.