Gerken Residence by Young Projects

23/03/2017. [NY] USA
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The Gerken Residence by Young Projects is a two storey loft situated on the top floors of the historic Tribeca building in Lower Manhattan, New York City.
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A design of the Gerken Residence by Young Projects, a multidisciplinary design studio based in New York, represents a discrete but complex space composition formed with three nested prisms that are interacting between each other, combining solid and void.
 

Description of the project by Young Projects

The Gerken Residence is 6,000 interior square feet occupying the 13th and 14th floors and 1,500 square feet of roof garden in a historic Tribeca building. The proposal explores shifting relationships of solid and void through the interplay of three nested prisms. At the entrance to the loft, a massive courtyard cut opens to the sky and city. This initial void is subsequently revealed to be bounded by a larger cut through the 14th floor, allowing the courtyard to be read as a floating glass mass, bridging the east and west sides of the plan, and opening the section between floors. The larger cut also exposes the existing building core as a monolithic mass that grounds the choreography of void and solid dancing around it. This core is clad in custom pulled plaster panels, a technique developed through the controlled collision of a centuries-old fabrication technique with contemporary digital design language. The project is formally restrained, but spatially provocative through the improbability of the empty courtyard positioned as a positive mass of air and landscape within the loft.

The position of the courtyard within the larger void also creates new opportunities in which landscape might penetrate the boundary between interior and exterior. At the Gerken Residence, the shadows of the courtyard trees are projected through the sectional void onto a translucent glass surface below that bounds the master suite on the 13th floor.

 

 

 

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Architecture and Design
Young Projects, Bryan Young Principal
Structural engineer
Silman
Electromechanical design engineer
Engineering Solutions
Stairs and screen manufacturer
KAMMETAL
Location
Tribeca, Manhattan, New York
Surface
Approximately 6,000 sf interior and 1,500 sf exterior
Year
2015

Projects Young

Bryan Young founded the design studio Young Projects in New York City in 2010. The studio produces multidisciplinary work ranging from architecture and art to furniture and objects. Their projects include a 20,000 sf ground-up Retreat and Spa in the Dominican Republic, a townhouse and addition in Williamsburg, free standing houses in the Hamptons and bespoke chandeliers.

Their design process is open to multiple influences and conceptual trajectories. Yet, there is an unique bias to their manner of building, revealed through the conscious manipulation of material and fabrication processes to achieve new aesthetic qualities within each project. This effort has been compiled as a series of experimental analog techniques consisting of cast aluminum, pulled plaster, bent steel, pleated wood, hammered wrought iron and layered concrete.

Young Projects received the 2013 Architectural League Prize, an Architizer A+ award for their 2014 Times Square Heart installation, an Architect’s Newspaper 2015 “Best of Design” for the Gerken Residence in Tribeca and most recently, a 2016 “New Practices” award from AIA NY. Young Projects' built and conceptual projects have been widely published and exhibited.

Bryan Young received his Master of Architecture with distinction from Harvard in 2003, where he was awarded the AIA Henry Adams Medal and the Thesis Prize for his spatial diagrams on Donkey Kong and Pac-Man. He received his Bachelor of Arts with highest honors from UC Berkeley in 1997. He has taught graduate level architecture design studios and seminars continuously since 2009 at several universities including MIT, Columbia, Parsons and Syracuse. Prior to establishing his studio, Young was a senior associate at Allied Works Architecture; and previously worked at ARO, SOM and Peter Pfau.

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