- Project
- Tower House
- Story Collection
- Does It Fit?
How to raise a living room above the 40-feet-high forest canopy?
Tower House takes the traditional residential hallway, with bedrooms connected to it, and tilts it up, stacking the bedrooms one on top of the other with floor to ceiling windows. The hallway is then swapped with a glass enclosed yellow staircase—a vertical procession to the living room up in the trees. Corner windows frame moments of the forest and an open ribbon reveals the panoramic view.
Steel and glass evoke a skyscraper in the city, not a cabin in the woods. Counterintuitively, the dark green enameled back-painted glass of Tower House camouflages it by reflecting the surrounding woods and dematerializing its form. The house disappears, or even better, it becomes part of the pervasive canopy. A gesture as whimsical as it is rational.
Catskills, NY
Location is the most important aspect driving the design of 145 Central Park North. The goal of the project? To maintain the scale and character of the neighborhood.
The eclectic nature of the Lower East Side’s building stock cannot be ignored. 150 Rivington embraces these conditions and finds a language to express the vitality of its context.
There is a common misconception that offsite construction, due to its association with modular design, must be repetitive. The Stack demonstrates its versatility.
