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Boats 2E + 2N
Boats 2E + 2N
Manhattan, New York, NY, United States
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Boats 2E + 2N
Manhattan, New York, NY, United States
Project Featured on Jan 14, 2015
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Type
STATUS
Built
YEAR
2012
SIZE
0 sqft - 1000 sqft
BUDGET
$50K - 100K
Boats 2E + 2N are two adjacent apartments with similar challenges. It was necessary to create two bedrooms for the families in each of their narrow spaces with access to an exterior deck for natural light and air. Both spaces had 11-foot ceilings, which was enough to create a storage or sleeping mezzanine.
The form of each project is very similar. The dividing wall used to make the two bedrooms contains the mezzanine and closet space for the two rooms. This wall is vertical and thin where it meets the glass wall that accesses the outside. This construction maximizes the potential light and view out of each room. As the dividing wall moves away from the glass, it gradually makes the space for the mezzanine as if the hull of a boat was emerging out of the wall. The program of these rooms is resolved into a single smooth construction.
Both projects were developed as a result of the invention of a kit-of-parts for the structure. The wall in 2E is clad on one side with smooth plywood, while the other side exposes all of the structural ribs, giving both sides different surface and spatial qualities.
The wall in 2N is clad on both sides, but on each side, the surface recesses into the structural ribs to reveal the ribs around the areas of the lower beds. The structure appears on the surface as diagonals that reinforce a direction imbedded within the form. 2N’s kit-of-parts was used to develop scripting protocols for all of the parts, so the production of each part was as a result of a repeatable process. This reproducibility makes the production of this form of construction fast and accurate.
The form of each project is very similar. The dividing wall used to make the two bedrooms contains the mezzanine and closet space for the two rooms. This wall is vertical and thin where it meets the glass wall that accesses the outside. This construction maximizes the potential light and view out of each room. As the dividing wall moves away from the glass, it gradually makes the space for the mezzanine as if the hull of a boat was emerging out of the wall. The program of these rooms is resolved into a single smooth construction.
Both projects were developed as a result of the invention of a kit-of-parts for the structure. The wall in 2E is clad on one side with smooth plywood, while the other side exposes all of the structural ribs, giving both sides different surface and spatial qualities.
The wall in 2N is clad on both sides, but on each side, the surface recesses into the structural ribs to reveal the ribs around the areas of the lower beds. The structure appears on the surface as diagonals that reinforce a direction imbedded within the form. 2N’s kit-of-parts was used to develop scripting protocols for all of the parts, so the production of each part was as a result of a repeatable process. This reproducibility makes the production of this form of construction fast and accurate.
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