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Fifth Avenue Apartment
Fifth Avenue Apartment
New York, NY, United States
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Fifth Avenue Apartment
New York, NY, United States
Type
STATUS
Built
YEAR
2019
SIZE
1000 sqft - 3000 sqft
This 5th avenue project is a gut renovation of a 3,000 sq.ft, apartment. The preexisting conditions a warren of interconnecting rooms with inefficient layouts. The kitchen and all six bathrooms were very small. The living and dining areas had been overly compressed and separated.
The client was seeking to create a space that would be intimate for their small family, while having plenty of room for a large extended family. The brief was to reconfigure and reshape the space to give deference to the Central Park views and create public and private spaces that naturally unfolded and merged, balancing both the need for privacy with familial/communal living.
Wid Chapman Architects sought to dematerialize the divisions between public and private areas while preserving the integrity of space for each living purpose. They were also tasked with favoring the sweeping views of the park. Ideally, the entire edge facing the park would have been wide open with public program. However, the client requested that the master bedroom suite also face west onto the park. Instead of creating a hard wall and doorway from the living room to the master bedroom, the architects shaped, angled the walls opposite the windows almost like arms embracing the space and views beyond.
While the angled wall on the left side (while facing the park) guides you towards the open kitchen, on the right side it lets you slip discreetly behind another wall, this one faceted and sculptural, that serves as the division between public and private in this area. It is only after you pass behind this sculptural form, in the narrows between the two walls, that you find a pocket door that leads you into the master bedroom, and the back side of the form from which is carved with an unconventional study niche. As the pocket door is minimal, there is a sense, when opened, that there is no formal division between the living Room and bedroom except for the freestanding form itself.
Back in the living room, this form embraces a large blue-velvet bespoke sofa, custom made to fit in the facets of the metallic dust-infused plaster wall. This anchors the living room seating area, which can comfortably seat 14 people.
At the other end of the space is an island form that mimics the nature of the sculpture wall.
It discreetly marks the edge of an open kitchen area. This seating island houses a flush cooktop. The back wall of the kitchen contains much of the working kitchen functions, including appliances and work counters, sink, dishwasher, and wine cooler. This wall of cabinets has retractable panel doors that can close to completely disguise these functions. The oak doors are finished with a special silver-embedded lacquer that highlights the wood’s grain. When closed they form an exquisite backdrop for the grand living area, interpreting the silver Venetian finish of the sculptural objects in wood veneer. A passageway off the kitchen leads into another kitchen and prep area. This has flush white lacquer doors and houses the refrigerator, freezer, a second dishwasher, sink, and cooktop.
Between the kitchen and the living room is a floating dining table anchored by a large custom chandelier. Along the entire window edge in the area is a continuous window seat allowing you to casually stop and absorb the view. The overall result a grand living area that centers and wraps around a sculptural object and seamlessly merges cooking, family dining, feasting and celebration with relaxing and quiet contemplation.
Where the two angled walls come closest together in the middle is a deliberately undefined, entrance to a long, wide hallway that connects the living room to a media room and three additional bedrooms. This hallway was designed to serve as a gallery for a modern art collection, each piece designed into the space with visible intentionality. Off the hall is a media room that has floor-to-ceiling surface-mounted doors that, when open, allow the room to blend into the gallery hall and extend the public space of the living area. The end of the hall leads to three bedrooms and two additional bathrooms. The hallway ends with an angular cul-de-sac, which avoids making the user feel as though they’ve come to a dead end, instead allowing them to circulate to two more bedrooms, or back down the hall and back to the living area.
Throughout the architect has used features that offer flexible, alterable divisions between rooms, such as floor-to-ceiling sliding doors and dimmable ensconced floor and ceiling lights.
The overall design makes for an exceptional and artistic apartment, celebrating nature, family and intimacy.
The client was seeking to create a space that would be intimate for their small family, while having plenty of room for a large extended family. The brief was to reconfigure and reshape the space to give deference to the Central Park views and create public and private spaces that naturally unfolded and merged, balancing both the need for privacy with familial/communal living.
Wid Chapman Architects sought to dematerialize the divisions between public and private areas while preserving the integrity of space for each living purpose. They were also tasked with favoring the sweeping views of the park. Ideally, the entire edge facing the park would have been wide open with public program. However, the client requested that the master bedroom suite also face west onto the park. Instead of creating a hard wall and doorway from the living room to the master bedroom, the architects shaped, angled the walls opposite the windows almost like arms embracing the space and views beyond.
While the angled wall on the left side (while facing the park) guides you towards the open kitchen, on the right side it lets you slip discreetly behind another wall, this one faceted and sculptural, that serves as the division between public and private in this area. It is only after you pass behind this sculptural form, in the narrows between the two walls, that you find a pocket door that leads you into the master bedroom, and the back side of the form from which is carved with an unconventional study niche. As the pocket door is minimal, there is a sense, when opened, that there is no formal division between the living Room and bedroom except for the freestanding form itself.
Back in the living room, this form embraces a large blue-velvet bespoke sofa, custom made to fit in the facets of the metallic dust-infused plaster wall. This anchors the living room seating area, which can comfortably seat 14 people.
At the other end of the space is an island form that mimics the nature of the sculpture wall.
It discreetly marks the edge of an open kitchen area. This seating island houses a flush cooktop. The back wall of the kitchen contains much of the working kitchen functions, including appliances and work counters, sink, dishwasher, and wine cooler. This wall of cabinets has retractable panel doors that can close to completely disguise these functions. The oak doors are finished with a special silver-embedded lacquer that highlights the wood’s grain. When closed they form an exquisite backdrop for the grand living area, interpreting the silver Venetian finish of the sculptural objects in wood veneer. A passageway off the kitchen leads into another kitchen and prep area. This has flush white lacquer doors and houses the refrigerator, freezer, a second dishwasher, sink, and cooktop.
Between the kitchen and the living room is a floating dining table anchored by a large custom chandelier. Along the entire window edge in the area is a continuous window seat allowing you to casually stop and absorb the view. The overall result a grand living area that centers and wraps around a sculptural object and seamlessly merges cooking, family dining, feasting and celebration with relaxing and quiet contemplation.
Where the two angled walls come closest together in the middle is a deliberately undefined, entrance to a long, wide hallway that connects the living room to a media room and three additional bedrooms. This hallway was designed to serve as a gallery for a modern art collection, each piece designed into the space with visible intentionality. Off the hall is a media room that has floor-to-ceiling surface-mounted doors that, when open, allow the room to blend into the gallery hall and extend the public space of the living area. The end of the hall leads to three bedrooms and two additional bathrooms. The hallway ends with an angular cul-de-sac, which avoids making the user feel as though they’ve come to a dead end, instead allowing them to circulate to two more bedrooms, or back down the hall and back to the living area.
Throughout the architect has used features that offer flexible, alterable divisions between rooms, such as floor-to-ceiling sliding doors and dimmable ensconced floor and ceiling lights.
The overall design makes for an exceptional and artistic apartment, celebrating nature, family and intimacy.
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