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St Philip Neri
St Philip Neri
Villa Avenue, The Bronx, Bronx County, NY, United States
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St Philip Neri
Villa Avenue, The Bronx, Bronx County, NY, United States
Type
STATUS
Under Construction
YEAR
2024
In recent years the Association of New York Catholic Homes, in association with Catholic Charities, has been exploring ways to bring greater productivity to their many under-performing properties in NYC while serving a mission-aligned need in the larger community for high quality housing for low-income families and formerly homeless individuals. Think! was fortunate to be commissioned to design a pair of 100% affordable residential buildings on Villa Avenue in the Jerome Park neighborhood of the Northern Bronx.
3054 Villa is 96,000 sq ft and 14 stories with 101 residential units.
3069 Villa is 77,000 sq ft and 12 stories with 85 residential units.
The sites being across from one another inspired consideration of the project as an ensemble or family of buildings that can be both similar and different; to have a strong connection to one another and to integrate effectively into the urban fabric. To further this connection to the ever-densifying neighborhood (there are four active construction sites alone on this block at the moment), see Design Feature One, below. To focus on the internal movement within the larger building at 3054 Villa Ave., see Design Feature Two.
Think! is often commissioned to design tall buildings in older, low-rise neighborhoods, and such is the case on Villa Avenue. This responsibility is taken seriously, and devised a scheme of breaking the scale down with two basic massings; a lower folded wall up to 9 stories, clad in a light brick, before the setback up to the full 14 and 12 stories, clad in a darker brick, this height being necessary to achieve the full allowed zoning bulk and residential unit count. The lower zone is slightly angled on both buildings, as a gesture to connect the two buildings visually. This also creates a sort of "embrace", and an unexpected spatial streetscape one normally doesn't experience on a small New York side street. Internally a primary goal was to allow generous natural light wherever one may be; in corridors, lobbies, amenity spaces and the actual living units.
3054 Villa is 96,000 sq ft and 14 stories with 101 residential units.
3069 Villa is 77,000 sq ft and 12 stories with 85 residential units.
The sites being across from one another inspired consideration of the project as an ensemble or family of buildings that can be both similar and different; to have a strong connection to one another and to integrate effectively into the urban fabric. To further this connection to the ever-densifying neighborhood (there are four active construction sites alone on this block at the moment), see Design Feature One, below. To focus on the internal movement within the larger building at 3054 Villa Ave., see Design Feature Two.
Think! is often commissioned to design tall buildings in older, low-rise neighborhoods, and such is the case on Villa Avenue. This responsibility is taken seriously, and devised a scheme of breaking the scale down with two basic massings; a lower folded wall up to 9 stories, clad in a light brick, before the setback up to the full 14 and 12 stories, clad in a darker brick, this height being necessary to achieve the full allowed zoning bulk and residential unit count. The lower zone is slightly angled on both buildings, as a gesture to connect the two buildings visually. This also creates a sort of "embrace", and an unexpected spatial streetscape one normally doesn't experience on a small New York side street. Internally a primary goal was to allow generous natural light wherever one may be; in corridors, lobbies, amenity spaces and the actual living units.
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