Project Description
The Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn was built around low-rise residential row houses and serves as a marker for the development of the city’s architectural scale and eventual velocity. This project was conceived around the notion of a re-framing of that typology wherein the linearity of the fenestration system becomes the principal driver of a new lens upon viewing the existing urban fabric and its vibrancy.
Striations of apertures were created in a disciplined and articulated manner that refer back to the formal yet experiential qualities of spatial engagement that captures the built nature of the immediate environment. This building thus strives toward a respectful contextual integration whilst also projecting a radical form of restraint.
Each residential apartment is afforded uncompromising views of the city that exists in a state of perpetual flux. Chiefly, scale and meticulous detailing lead the facade construction towards an expression of its interior concept of a horizontal world.