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Transitional Services for New York Inc.
Transitional Services for New York Inc.
Queens, Queens County, NY, United States
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Transitional Services for New York Inc.
Queens, Queens County, NY, United States
Type
STATUS
Built
YEAR
2001
SIZE
5000 sqft - 10,000 sqft
The description of the strategic logic for this renovation is bracketed by our chosen precedents, namely Mies’s Farnsworth House and Philip Johnson’s Glass House. In the Farnsworth House, Mies’s external application of the expressed steel structural columns emphasizes the horizontal planes of the floor and roof as well as the infinite vista of the natural surroundings. In contrast, Johnson’s Glass House is focused on the plinth and the brick cylinder that pierces the roof plane. Each of these glass structures delineates a significantly different relationship to the ground plane. The TSI glass box (for the sake of this discussion it is still considered a glass box despite having interior partitions) is a two story structure which is depressed five feet below the sidewalk level with continuous light wells across the building’s front and rear. While The Farnsworth is an object floating in the landscape and the Glass House is an object come to rest on the landscape, this structure actually nestles into it’s surroundings, subtly downplaying its scale in deference to its neighbors.
The design interventions concentrated on clipping on a new aluminum and glass skin/cage on this existing structural system, creating a new exterior facade; reconfiguring the interiors to suit the new tenants needs; and establishing a new symbolic anchor, in both a physical and conceptual sense, in the form of a new conically shaped conference room. The new conference room projects through the existing roof, opening out to the sky, and becomes a focal point in the surrounding neighborhood. The bold declaration of this anchoring volume is symbolic of the brain power, energy and commitment of the TSI staff.
The design interventions concentrated on clipping on a new aluminum and glass skin/cage on this existing structural system, creating a new exterior facade; reconfiguring the interiors to suit the new tenants needs; and establishing a new symbolic anchor, in both a physical and conceptual sense, in the form of a new conically shaped conference room. The new conference room projects through the existing roof, opening out to the sky, and becomes a focal point in the surrounding neighborhood. The bold declaration of this anchoring volume is symbolic of the brain power, energy and commitment of the TSI staff.
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