V33 Residential Building

Project Details

Project Description

Located in the landmark Tribeca district, V33 is a residential Condominium representing a major innovation with respect to the classic apartment building. The 9-story building comprises 7 residential units with underground parking, including two 3-story townhouses and one 2-story penthouse.
The architects worked around the custom-designed concept of the urban villa, a multi-story building containing modular apartment units each unique, building a complex in which every owner enjoys maximum customization of spatial layouts.

To pass this custom design through the Landmark committee into the eclectic context of old warehouses, homes, shops and art galleries, the architects chose to extrapolate the differentiation even further with a “pixelated” façade pattern that negotiates the rhythms of two neighboring facades. This pixelation of translucent stone, glass, and translucent glass, creates shifts in material that allow the façade to constantly change over the course of a day: the translucent stone glows by day in the interior, while by night it is reversed, giving the building a dynamic face.
The south facade, on the other hand, is a three-dimensional composition created out of the aggregation of cantilevering volumes of different apartments, overlooking the garden, that is actually a roof terrace, situated on the private parking garage in the cellar. A fluid continuity is expressed in a random pattern of balconies, sunrooms and double height spaces, generating a bright but also shaded southern exposure.
V33 was envisioned not as a traditional apartment building but rather a set of stacked individually designed urban villas with their own authentic qualities and spaces and vary greatly through the building. The villa’s differentiate themselves through level changes rather then walls; different façade solutions correspond to different rooms, so that, for example, the rooms on the southern side are larger, and double height , while lower ceilings align the northern side with the more private spaces and the pixellation of the translucent stone & glass façade. Because of their extremely generous size [between 3500 and 5000 sf], large outdoor spaces [terraces and gardens] and sometimes multiple floors, they create ideal living environments. The fact that interior and exterior spaces flow seamlessly over into each other expresses that idea further.