In partnership with an affordable care provider in NYC, WAKE was retained to explore, analyze, and assess the viability of up-zoning half an NYC block into an affordable housing development for individuals and families facing chronic poverty and at risk of becoming homeless.
Read MoreNestled between Atlantic Avenue and Fulton Street in the iconic Bed-Stuy neighborhood of Brooklyn, Aqua Development, emerges offering each of its residents private and public outdoor space. The outcome of a six-lot study, resulting in the merger of two tax lots to maximize efficiency, "Aqua" is a 7-stories, 54,000 square feet, and 52-unit residential development utilizing staggered balconies, cantilevers, dormer regulations, and programmatic adjacency to achieve the developer's goal of offering up exterior space to all residences, regardless of size, location, or income.
Read MoreWhat 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.
Read MoreA central core services two, separate, halves of the space. At its interior are the more formal meeting rooms, offices, environments for ‘deep work’ and more private conversations. As you radiate out from the core spaces, and modes of work, become more informal providing communal gathering spaces along the perimeter wall and windows. From the board room to workout space, private meeting to family table and booths, as you navigate and circumference the office, you’re repeatedly entering a new environment to promote fluid and healthy work-life balance.
Read MoreLocated in Manhattan’s South Seaport District Cirque/Haus is a unique studio space that caters to all forms of body movement practices from acroyoga to the aerial arts, rock climbing and jujitsu.
Read MoreBelieving you work best when you feel great. Primary provides a shared office environment that focuses on the cleaner side of living with amenities designed to help people feel good while working to make their businesses thrive. Primary’s goal is to seamlessly combine wellness and performance to create an opportunity for success.
Read MoreBelieving you work best when you feel great. Primary provides a shared office environment that focuses on the cleaner side of living with amenities designed to help people feel good while working to make their businesses thrive. Primary’s goal is to seamlessly combine wellness and performance to create an opportunity for success.
Read MoreIn 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.
Read MoreOffering 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.
Read MoreWith a two-story addition added to an existing four-story townhouse, a full redesign and gut renovation was undertaken for a family of five. To contrast the clients' minimalist perspective, the decision was made to expose the structure, HVAC system, sprinklers, and new steel stairs through the house's center
Read MoreWarehouse 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.
Read MoreThe 299 sqft addition – part of a newly renovated duplex apartment w/ private roof terrace – will crown the freshly renovated and restored building designed by the architect Timothy Remsen and built c. 1891. The building's addition was designed as a contemporary take on the mansard roofs found on some Romanesque Revival-style buildings in the Prospect Heights district. The rhythm of the penthouse’s glazing is derived from 576 Vanderbilt’s facade, and the dark bronze and teak material palette will elegantly complement the existing building and its context
Read MoreLocated 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 MoreConcept 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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