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1 John Street
1 John Street
Brooklyn, Kings County, NY, United States
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1 John Street
Brooklyn, Kings County, NY, United States
Project Featured on Nov 11, 2019
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Type
STATUS
Built
YEAR
2016
SIZE
100,000 sqft - 300,000 sqft
Acting as developer and architect the team responded to a public RFP for this housing site located in Brooklyn Bridge Park. Sensitive to the impacts of built structures in a public park, the team chose to fill the ground floor of the building with public program in the form of a children’s museum and restaurant serving park visitors with both spaces opening onto the adjacent park space. Upon award, the team crafted thoughtfully designed residences - most of which were 3 and 4 bedroom apartments oriented toward families - to ensure the success of the project for the Park organization who had an economic interest in the project. The project was 95% sold prior to occupancy in summer of 2016 and achieved the highest average price per square foot valuation in the history of residential development in Brooklyn.
The thoughtful building design is both contextual and sustainable offering a positive impact on the environment. The building fenestration echoes the industrial warehouse character of the neighborhood with a brick façade and large window openings that take advantage of the stunning views of the site. The proximity to the water and the bridge brought acoustical and flood proofing challenges that the design team was able to meet by creating a more sustainably oriented building. To help mitigate rising water levels on the waterfront, the ground floor was elevated above the flood plain and the landscape was built up around the building to create a soft buffer. The oversized windows are triple pane glass and the building envelope is well insulated with an air barrier to create a very tight building envelope which helps address both acoustical and thermal performance. One John Street also includes a small cogeneration plant that generates electricity with natural gas while meeting the building’s domestic hot water needs with its waste heat. These strategies and more are targeted to use over 30% less energy than a comparable baseline building and led the building to LEED Gold status.
Overall our goal for One John Street was to create a building that could benefit both its inhabitants and the surrounding communities. The successful acquisition of the site financed the adjacent new section of the Park while the annex to the Brooklyn Children’s museum and a new restaurant serve to radically change this once desolate block into a thriving waterfront for both the public and building residents.
The thoughtful building design is both contextual and sustainable offering a positive impact on the environment. The building fenestration echoes the industrial warehouse character of the neighborhood with a brick façade and large window openings that take advantage of the stunning views of the site. The proximity to the water and the bridge brought acoustical and flood proofing challenges that the design team was able to meet by creating a more sustainably oriented building. To help mitigate rising water levels on the waterfront, the ground floor was elevated above the flood plain and the landscape was built up around the building to create a soft buffer. The oversized windows are triple pane glass and the building envelope is well insulated with an air barrier to create a very tight building envelope which helps address both acoustical and thermal performance. One John Street also includes a small cogeneration plant that generates electricity with natural gas while meeting the building’s domestic hot water needs with its waste heat. These strategies and more are targeted to use over 30% less energy than a comparable baseline building and led the building to LEED Gold status.
Overall our goal for One John Street was to create a building that could benefit both its inhabitants and the surrounding communities. The successful acquisition of the site financed the adjacent new section of the Park while the annex to the Brooklyn Children’s museum and a new restaurant serve to radically change this once desolate block into a thriving waterfront for both the public and building residents.
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