Structure agency Studio Libeskind has accomplished The Atrium at Sumner Homes, a 190-unit reasonably priced housing complicated for seniors in Brooklyn, New York.
Positioned on the heart of the New York Metropolis Housing Authority's (NYCHA) Sumner Homes campus, the 11-story block wraps round a full-height central atrium that provides the constructing its title.
Throughout the constructing, which has Studio Libeskind's slanted facades, are 190 residences for seniors beneath the town's Seniors First program.
A lot of the residences will home seniors who earn under or equal to 50 p.c of the Space Median Earnings, whereas 57 items are for seniors who’ve skilled homelessness. NYCHA residents may have precedence for the remaining 33 residences, with one put aside as a residence for a live-in superintendent.
The design of the Atrium at Sumner Homes was knowledgeable by the non-public experiences of Studio Libeskind founder Daniel Libeskind, who grew up within the Amalgamated Housing Cooperative within the Bronx.
Libeskind, who’s now one of many world's best-known architects, lived within the housing cooperative as a youngster within the late 1950s and early 1960s.
“Rising up in social housing within the Bronx gave me a novel perspective on the significance of group and high-quality, reasonably priced housing,” mentioned Libeskind.
“We took this attitude to activity when designing the Atrium at Sumner Homes; I wished to create a spot that felt like house for the residents,” he continued.
“I hope this undertaking serves as a robust instance of how good design can have a optimistic influence on society, particularly for these in want.”
The bottom ground of the constructing accommodates a glass entrance corridor in addition to an eight,309-square-foot (772-square-meter) group heart.
Above this are the residences, that are organized across the central atrium and all designed to be adaptable. Entry corridors overlook this central house, which accommodates a backyard designed, put in and maintained by The Horticultural Society of New York.
Different services throughout the block embrace laundry services, a group room, a pc room, an train room and bicycle storage.
The Atrium at Sumner Homes is the second reasonably priced housing undertaking that Studio Libeskind has lately created in New York, its Allan & Geraldine Rosenberg Residences in Freeport opened final yr.
Libeskind spoke to Dezeen earlier this yr as a part of our Social Housing Revival sequence to induce architects to create extra inventive reasonably priced housing.
“Extra good architects ought to get entangled in social housing,” Libeskind informed Dezeen. “We want creativity to beat the stigma of social housing and we’d like architects who can invent new methods to create respectable, dignified, stunning and sustainable housing throughout the limits of budgets.”
“Should you're an architect who engages with housing in a inventive method, then you definately're a much-needed answer to an issue.”
Pictures is by Hufton + Crow.
Undertaking credit:
Architect of document: Studio Libeskind
Development Supervisor/ GC: Letture Development Corp
Civil engineer: AKRF
Structural Engineer: LERA Consulting Structural Engineers
MEP/FP engineer: FISKAA Engineering
Fireplace alarm advisor: Nazar Engineering PC
Constructing premises advisor: Steven Winter Associates
Excessive Efficiency Development Advisor: Shining energy