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Carroll Gardens Rowhouse
Carroll Gardens Rowhouse
New York, NY, United States
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Other Projects by O'Neill McVoy Architects
Carroll Gardens Rowhouse
New York, NY, United States
YEAR
2007
SIZE
10,000 sqft - 25,000 sqft
The 16’ wide, 140 year-old row house is transformed by selectively stripping away historic layers and adding back new details in contrast to the old. Each detail results from a single idea acting on one material: folding aluminum discs into spherical light fixtures; water-jet cutting weathering steel panels with shifting foliage-shadow patterns to make a fence; perforating a tapered plywood box with the same pattern; punching and bending raw steel sheet for cabinetry.
The shade pattern is abstracted from photographs of a neighbor's fig tree. We traced the densest areas of fig shadows on fig leaves in the photographs and composed them such that both hole and material have equal figural reading. The pattern repeats every second panel, and shifts down with each repeat from front to back. Because the pattern is more open at the top, the fence panels are more closed and private at the seating area and more open and transparent at the back.
Corten weathers through time to reveal its elemental iron composition. The orange-reddish-brown varied coloration complements the lush backyard planting through seasonal changes.
The shade pattern is abstracted from photographs of a neighbor's fig tree. We traced the densest areas of fig shadows on fig leaves in the photographs and composed them such that both hole and material have equal figural reading. The pattern repeats every second panel, and shifts down with each repeat from front to back. Because the pattern is more open at the top, the fence panels are more closed and private at the seating area and more open and transparent at the back.
Corten weathers through time to reveal its elemental iron composition. The orange-reddish-brown varied coloration complements the lush backyard planting through seasonal changes.
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