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1996 |
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completed |
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new york, ny |
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private residence |
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This medium size Manhattan residential loft was configured and detailed so as to allow for privacy while preserving the sense of a large open loft. Sliding glass and steel doors with clear upper panes and translucent lower panes ennable light to reach the rear of the loft and still provide privacy. The architectural elements of the apartment were developed as “furniture.” Materials were used to articulate the different parts of the design program, and each element was detailed to read as an object that does not touch the perimeter walls or ceiling. This is similar to the way “furniture” sits in an interior space.
The plan of the apartment was developed to allow the limited natural light of the living and kitchen areas at the norhtern front end of the apartment to reach the bedroom and study at the rear of the loft. This literal transparancy was accomplished by a custom sliding metal and glass screen running on an east/west axis. A north/
south division was deliniated by cabinetry units that form a partition wall. These units involve cantelevered work surfaces made of industrial lab top materials held by custom metal supports. The tops are attached to an industrial plastic resin coated “finply” base unit, a plywood material that is typically used for concrete formwork. Clearstory windows at walls and upper panels of the sliding screen produce the effect a continuous ceiling plane. The large volume clad in Anagre wood paneling contains the kitchen/powder room/laundry “furniture.” This singular, large solid volume, helps to organize the “wet” functional requirements. The design elements for this apartment involve one object, one transparent plane, and one furniture wall that organizes the programmatic and functional requirements. Other materials used involved waxed plaster wall surface finishes on the “wet” wall, custom lighting elements, and custom stainless doorpulls.
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