TERRACED WAVES

Typology

Residential Apartments LOCATION

Brooklyn, NYC

BUILDING AREA

42000 Ft2

PROJECT DATE

September, 2021

With the completion of the BQX and NYC ferry system, the public transportation system around this community will become well developed and the density of pedestrian activity will increase significantly. At the same time, it seems that the configuration of the recreational infrastructure around the site has room for improvement because of future hyper density. Therefore, the building's public common spaces are dedicated to enriching the residents' sports experience, and the renovated part of BQE has become a skate park, combined with some children's playgrounds, dance studios, indoor courts, and other spaces to bring a new vitality to the whole community. At the same time, the building adopts a combination of terrace housing and tower housing across the BQE, creating a residential community that meets the needs of many people. From a façade design perspective, the building seeks to blend in with the existing architecture, creating a natural transition in the overall façade, but also creating a new urban corridor.

Site Plan

The overall public space also extends to the BQE, and this type of recreational infrastructure also provides good leisure and entertainment opportunities for the surrounding neighborhood, and it will create a new urban corridor.

For the whole building, I designed it with a combination of tower and terrace building types. On the other side of BQE, the tower housing is integrated here with the Terrace housing, and the atrium space in between allows better access to sunlight.

For the cluster development. A Cluster plan and section that shows a certain spatial organization of the terrace housing. It offers luxurious family housing there, and of course people who love sports are very welcome. It contains a variety of room types to meet the needs of different people.The overall building section shows many rich spatial textures, which speak to the different relationships between residential space and public common space in the building. In addition, the skate park in the renovated part of the BQE also shows a clear vein that connects to the new building, while meeting the needs of the whole community for recreational space and creating a new urban corridor.

For the façade design, the same language of the architectural massing form are used in the design process. In addition, the façade design intentionally strengthens the connection with exsiting building so that the two parts are naturally connected.The drawing shows the relationship between various types of spaces and the relationship between the primary and the secondary system.

The diagram of the façade design are very helpful to analyze the conversion relationship between 2d and 3d. The interplay of virtual and real becomes the main design concept for the primary and secondary systems, and the same design language brings unity to the overall building while having a vivid façade.

With the gradual completion of them, the public transportation network required for hyperdensity is coming to fruition, however, the recreational facilities around the site are not sufficient for such a density of people.

So for the Public common space, Its main function is to provide recreational space for residents, such as a skate park, children's playgrounds, indoor court and dance studios.

They are located in the middle part of the whole building and most of them are centralized areas, which are easy to reach for the residents and also provide a nice place to communicate in the building.