In collaboration with Gans Studio, Garrison Architects created a new housing typology in which the small size of the individual unit enhances rather than compromises the life style of its occupant. The unit provides for the daily functions of the resident, while the building offers high quality amenity spaces that augment and extend the function of the individual unit.
The nine-story building combines first floor commercial/lobby, six floors of micro-units (69 units total), and a penthouse social space.
The roof top is a destination space with a meeting/dining room supported by an extensive kitchen with multiple appliances for multiple cooks, a penthouse laundry, and an outdoor recreation area that connects to the building’s “front porch” balcony one level below.
The ground floor lobby opens on to an additional basement space where a second cooking facility that could conceivably operate as a concession building café provides another group dining possibility. The corridor on each residential floor extends at its western end into a lounge providing a gathering place near the circulation.
The south façade of the building is designed as a system of three foot deep terraces with integrated planters, stainless steel mesh trellises, and louvers for solar control, that together create a diaphanous veiled building volume. This system is designed to eliminate all summer solar gain from the building façade.
LEED Platinum would be achieved through various features, such as gravity ventilation, high efficiency heat pumps, solar heated water, a photovoltaic array, a green façade, and a high performance building envelope.
Client
New York City Consulting Group LLC
Status
Designed
Info
2012
Modular/Multi-Family
0 sf
New York, NY