Greenwich Village is a central and desirable location. It is an architecturally heterogeneous area, where the built form is as diverse as its inhabitants. The historic district is undergoing a series of transformations, ranging from minor building renovations to adaptive reuse and the creation of new housing stock.
I am interested in how to operate in a historic district with no concessions to nostalgia or historic servility, while maintaining an amicable and harmonious relationship with the surroundings.
The built form is developed to accommodate traditional as well as changing family structures. By fitting out the 'core unit', tenants can fulfill their individual space needs. Consideration of size and proportion results in rooms that can be combined or subdivided. Sliding panels and screens modulate the amount of incoming daylight, and provide varying degrees of privacy.