West 22nd Street
New York, NY
Sited within the emerging Chelsea art district, just west of the aging High Line, the project combines the adaptive re-use of a nineteenth century, light-industrial brick façade with a diverse program: a large retail space on lower floors, a rental apartment, and a gallery and residence on the upper floors. The brick façade was preserved and a new structural frame was introduced to the 50 foot x 100 foot lot, which was bounded by brick party walls. The façade reinforces the existing streetscape and acts as a foil, concealing the private, open contemporary spaces within. In places the facade is fully engaged in the definition of interior space; at other points the facade is detached and objectified: a spatial and tectonic separation reflecting the layering of time on the site.
The primary residence occupies three levels, wrapped around a garden on the third-floor entry level. The effect of the garden is both delightful and practical: it creates an airy void that opens up to the New York sky and also reflects the client's desire for outdoor spaces and light-filled interiors. Views onto and throughout the garden from various vantage points create a series of layered spaces that fuse the interior and exterior, urban and natural, sculptural and organic.
Please see our Flash website at www.charlesrosearchitects.com for a more complete representation of this project.
New York, NY
Sited within the emerging Chelsea art district, just west of the aging High Line, the project combines the adaptive re-use of a nineteenth century, light-industrial brick façade with a diverse program: a large retail space on lower floors, a rental apartment, and a gallery and residence on the upper floors. The brick façade was preserved and a new structural frame was introduced to the 50 foot x 100 foot lot, which was bounded by brick party walls. The façade reinforces the existing streetscape and acts as a foil, concealing the private, open contemporary spaces within. In places the facade is fully engaged in the definition of interior space; at other points the facade is detached and objectified: a spatial and tectonic separation reflecting the layering of time on the site.
The primary residence occupies three levels, wrapped around a garden on the third-floor entry level. The effect of the garden is both delightful and practical: it creates an airy void that opens up to the New York sky and also reflects the client's desire for outdoor spaces and light-filled interiors. Views onto and throughout the garden from various vantage points create a series of layered spaces that fuse the interior and exterior, urban and natural, sculptural and organic.
Please see our Flash website at www.charlesrosearchitects.com for a more complete representation of this project.
