Architect: Loadingdock5 Architecture
Location: Brooklyn, New York, USA
Project Team: Harry Knoll, Werner Morath and Sam Bargetz
Project Year: 2005-2008
Photographs: Marc Lins
935 pacific street is the first completed building of helloliving.
the design is an updated concept of 190 green streetwith improvements in layouts, circulation and the design of the rear yard area. the design is a balance act of the strict nyc regulations for floor area with the less strict rules for height and bulk.
Goal was it to give certain areas more height (17′ in living areas) and other ones the standard 8′ (bedrooms and bathrooms).
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Brooklyn is with a “Y” my dear;)
Looks nice, but I would have loved this in a thinner proportion. Seems a little too wide for its grid. Yes…A little taller, and just a tad bit thinner and I would have been sold.
that is all.
Nice contrast to its surroundings. I would love to see more similar projects in Brooklyn.
very good. timeless design.
MVRDV already did a building with an identical parti. Look it up!
That’s incorrect. This building maybe (probably) was influenced by that design, but the parti is totally different. That was a 2 family building obsessed with making the volume thin by knitting the units together in a quirky way…this is simply stacked duplex apartments.
RQH i think you are mistaken about the MVRDV correlation. If it is ripped off MVRDV then it is a cheap imitation because this has a double loaded albeit small corridor and no cross ventilation.
This is a nice building but could be better. Does look great in its surroundings I must say.
Speaking of more similar projects in Brooklyn, the same developer and architects have 4 or maybe 5 similar scale projects all within a couple blocks of this location. The idea is that each small building has a resident/public amenity. Together the buildings can provide the services of a much larger building. It’s a nice little cluster-community idea.
Especially nice in this part of Brooklyn (my neighborhood) where the largest public amenity is the massive Atlantic Armory/homeless processing center.
Not very flashy but a nice infill for the street. Nothing crazy new or groundbreaking as far as I can see. But it is a nice project.
where are the interior shots?
archdaily: thxs for the posting of 935 pacific!
http://tiny.cc/N73i0
Overall in situ a very good idea and well balanced-ish with a few exceptions:
* windows are wrong! The proportions/size of the frames way off.
* roof railings need to be discrete to hide exhaust stacks
* the monstrosity exhaust on the top roof must be hidden
And I wonder about the apparantly thin walls.
An 83% job…
RQH, it has nothing to do with MVRDV, they’re different projects, the MVRDV one is a twin house (if Im not mistaken) where the encroachment between the houses happens more than twice along the vertical (pretty interesting indeed).
This is a multifamily building, where obviously the encroachment between units can only happen once (due the small size).
In any case it has more to do with Le Corbusier’s scheme (see Unite d’habitacion, 1952) than MRVDV’s, and even MVRDVs might be based in Le Corbusier.
HOwardG, I do agree about the railings, they’re huge in porportion, don’t mind the other comments.
It’s a nice project, the double height could be a future den/studio/bedroom, I think that was the idea.
Is a decent intervention unfortunately it reminds me of
Scarano Architects the scary firm that is building 95% of Brooklyn
I cannot agree with some comments. Judging from the project context presented above, the architects show no respect for the history of the place, for the scale of the street and a colour scheme. Because of interventions like that, we are loosing charm of old quarters… you may call it “progress”, but it’s just lack of sensibility to me…
Bo –
mmmm so right – let the [...] -Sauce [...] be with you!
And it’s also a lack (denial?) of context.
The whole thing unfortunately reeks from the incongruity of ‘progress’…
I’ve got to reply to the thread established by the last two comments.
I live around the corner from this building, and to claim that the building is out of context with the surroundings, or that its color scheme is somehow at fault, is to not understand the context of the surroundings.
Don’t be fooled by the three houses you can see in the image, the neighborhood is predominantly warehouses, freightyards, railyards, car repair shops, and vacant lots…(my block has only a handful of residential buildings amongst primarily industrial buildings.)
That aside, haven’t we as a design culture evolved beyond the knee jerk refusal of projects that don’t utilize the materials and fashion of some previous era as glorified wallpaper?
This part of town is littered with gut-churning new buildings who only have bad red brick cladding to recommend them. If you walk past this building, you can’t help but notice that it’s different from its neighbors, but it in no way destroys the street… can we please let the future be the future?!
A real architect’s design (and that’s not a compliment!). You’ll notice that there are no photos with the units occupied. It looks quite nice empty, but just wait until the units are lived-in and all the occupants’ furniture and junk is visible and/or they install a variety of blinds and curtains.
Vince
BUT that’s the best part! Life and people adding the humanity to the project… 8-) Context returns.
… hmmm must’ve been bad day… on second view actually my earlier comments were poorly considered – the proportions are more blanced that I realised and windows mucho OK. The exhaust comment still stands though 8-|
Congratulations on ignoring all the relevant and meaningful context of Brooklyn, this particular street and its builidngs and designing yet another ode to misplaced modernism. Why are 17′ living spaces so important?