Brooklyn Bridge Park artists housing

Brooklyn Bridge Park Artist Housing project documents Lin Ye

SITUATION Neighborhood

Location 334 Furman Street Brooklyn, NY 11201

Urban context

40°41’51’N 73°59’57’W

Morphology and Ordering Patterns

Physical Factors Sun angles

Solar Azimuth

Solar Elevation

Dec 21st

217.28

20.33

Mar 21st

234.05

34.76

Jun 21st

237.53

32.74

Annual number of days of sunlight

Total Hours 2535 hrs

Clear days 107 days

Average Precipitation

Heights as a residential district really began in the early 19th century when the ferry boats first became steam-propelled. Due to its great desirability, the Heights

Shading (trees, adjacent structures, topography)

Largely open areas with some shadings from the adjacent three and a half story high(~40’ tall) high way Prevailing Winds direction

The overall wind direction is from the west. The predominant direction is from the northwest in the winter, and southwest in the summer.

Storm forces

Tornados, hurricanes

Average Temperature

Physically the Brooklyn Heights area is an elevated plateau, bounded on the west by the East River and on the north by Fulton Street. The development of the itself has always remained a residential area with business interests grouped about Fulton and Montague Streets as a result, the Heights is an area of low buildings with only about eight percent of the buildings non-conforming in this respect.

Building Heights (both required and average within 500’)

The program restricts the building height under 40’ inorder not to disrupt the views of the Brooklyn Promenade.

Character and Uses of Adjacent Properties identifying any potential conflicts or opportunities.

Buildings across BQE are mostly residential. The brooklyn Promenade creates issues on height limitation.

Networks

Subway

Bus

INTENTION Project description

As a direct response to Mayor Di Blasi’s plan of reshaping the city by building 80,000 new affordable housing units in the next decade, the artist housing project aims to set a precedence and redefine the living style of resident artists. Being a vital piece of landmark off the coast of East River, the Brooklyn Bridge Park brings together a variety of forces and energy including landscape, weather, and human factors into a condensed community that is partitioned by the Brooklyn Queens Expressway. The architectural idea is to emphasize the hierarchy of privacy, community and public under a schematic layout of structures, aswell as to define visual and implied axes of energy that challenges the boundary between the residence and the park.

Brutalism

Geometry Repetitive Angular

Legacy

Modular

Field study

Sol Lewitt

Linear organization

Materiality Raw Expressive

Mathematically based

Even distribution Structure

Lebbeus Woods

Unordered geometry

Field as a threshold

Tension and compression

Daniel Liebskind

Schematic disorder

Space bound by geometry

Strong axes

Expression of structural materials, form, and service

on its exterior

Program and Use

The intention of the artist house project is to create a community within the existing context of Brooklyn Bridge Park. Each building within the complex is assigned different functions to highlight the idea of privacy, community and public. When layed out on the site, two major axes are generated, one that cuts through the gallery, and the main residence and runs north to south connecting the running trail and furman street.

The other that visually connects the brooklyn promenade and the park and carves out community space for the residents.

The units are modular units that are stacked ontop and offset from each other to resonate with the idea of individuality and collectivitism.

Stair towers are separated from the main structures and made vertical access possible.

Private

PROJECT

Community Public

Order

The arrangement of the complex creates various thresholds that diffuse into the existing context. The art pocket on the street side of the complex utilizes the underside of

Brooklyn Queens Expressway as a gallery space for large scale exhibitions. The pathway between the gallery space and the main residence building is an extention of the Furman building welcoming people from the south side of the brooklyn bridge park to enter into community. The pocket created off the waterfront provides opportunities for people to have undisrupted view of the Manhattan skyline while resting on the carved steps that leads to the complex. All three accesses join together at the center of the complex where the most activities will take place.

Elevation

Footprint

The Unit

The Space

The artist housing redefines the way of living and condenses the living unit into essenial components. Residents are expected to have at least 300 square foot of living/ work space. The artists are to enter into their living unit through the stair towers, he/she then steps onto a slight offset pathway created by the offsetting structure which leads to their living units. Roof gardens are placed in front of every unit with synchopated seatings available for the residents to come out of their units and enjoy the view of the waterfront.

Each unit has space for kitchen, studio and bedroom. The arrangement for these spaces are based on different levels of privacy.

Screens are inserted as space dividers and agents of privacy.

Layer sequence: Wood flooring Sheathing Radiant heating Sheathing 2x4 stud framing Sheathing Vapor barrier Metal stud framing Concrete structure

The Structure

North Elevation

Precast rectangular concrete tubes are stacked and offset from each other to provide the structural framing, conventional wood stud framing units are then inserted into the concrete frame and completes the units. the interior is to be completely finished with wood flooring to accent the unity of the space.

South Elevation