Located in the manufacturing district of Brooklyn, Gowanus, Brooklyn Tower I is a new 7-story mixed-use development project. Conceived as two separate volumes, a four-story base, and three-story crown, the building is designed to sit within and atop the typical brownstone typology. Sitting atop the heavier bottom volume is a lighter, airier, open structure with warm wood sun shading and floor-to-ceiling glass openings to provide sweeping views of Brooklyn and the Gowanus Canal.
Read MoreThe creation of safe education spaces for the young is a challenging design project to account for entirely. On the one hand, you need a degree of openness, visibility, and the capability to teach, while on the contrary, you want to provide privacy and places which can be "claimed" as their own. Read 718 addresses this problem by designing a 'habitable bookshelf' with a built-in reading nook and informal seating platform for group activities and providing some form of spatial delineation. The bookcase frames the connection to the floor below and functions to join the two spaces and ensure continuity as one progresses down and out into the backyard from the street level above.
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreThe 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.
