Description of the project by Young Projects
The Wythe Townhouse involves the gut renovation of, and addition to, an existing townhouse on a corner lot in Williamsburg. To satisfy the client’s aspirations of maintaining the existing commercial occupancy on the ground floor while maximizing residential space on the upper floors, the second floor was extended to create one continuous living zone sandwiched between sleeping above and working below. The ground floor footprint remains compact to maximize the floor area ratio (FAR) dedicated to residential space.
This new addition is, from the exterior, undeniably other. A zinc monolith hovers on pilotis over the backyard, bridging between two traditional brick buildings and maintaining the modest budget by minimizing expensive excavation and foundation work. A new garden planted on top of the addition provides an elevated backyard with increased exposure to sunlight and more privacy from the street. This leaves the ground level free for utilitarian uses like sheltered off-street parking and extra storage.
On the interior, the boundary between the existing structure and the new addition is more subtly expressed as both a line of connection and a line of dissonance. It is a conceptual fault line that bisects the living space and sets the stage for a variety of smaller zones. A curtain meanders throughout the new addition providing opportunities for temporary subdivisions within the larger space. The path of the curtain is reflected across the fault line in the sinuous curve of the main stair. This stair winds around the double-height living area of the existing structure, meeting the curtain at a point that ties new to old.
Young Projects has been commissioned to renovate this old townhouse property in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. An intervention that makes light and color its hallmark and increases exponentially the spatiality of the architectural project.
Young Projects' proposal also provides a small garden that fills the project with light and nature as well as certain flexible spaces that allow different uses.
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Published on:
March 31, 2017
Cite: "Wythe Corner House by Young Projects" METALOCUS.
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<http://www.metalocus.es/en/news/wythe-corner-house-young-projects>
ISSN 1139-6415
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