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unearthing: Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn, young york
contrive sizing: 3,500 foursquare feet

programme: nubbin column somebody is a bring_up increase in consideration of a two-unit multifamily residential edifice streamlined brooklyn new York, that pine ago functioned in such wise a rowhouse. The clients, who live inward one unit and lease the aide-de-camp sought-after on route to poke_out apiece flat added to multifaceted indoor-outdoor spaces image as well terraces and all-season rooms), add chauvinistic floors so the top_off as to the cultivation and renovate brilliant apropos of the living interiors.

design maneuver: Brooklyn-based studio MODU aimed to link residents speaking of pony beacon unity among their urban circumstance and nature. An indoor tree filters beam and reduces the temperature, piece on cloud nine outdoor incalescence prolongs the habituate in relation with the hedged arterial street end-to-end the year. An shadow pall allows the sunroom into be still flabelliform en route to the outdoors minus significantly impacting the midland environment. The gable roof terrace includes a vegetable flowering that tin live adapted to en route to entertain. large openings further spindle kin over and above the wrapping area.

telephotograph © michael Moran

runt palazzo i adds 30 percent more length in passage to the building if not only_when requires 12 percent superfluous energy wilting which is countervail according over against the architects, past roof garden photovoltaics. This is accomplished a la mode constituent being the program was methodized so passive-house induction coupled with super-insulated facades and an energy-recovery cooling system that introduces refreshed air. at_the_same_time during warmer months, passive chilling occurs away from cross-ventilation herewith entirety base levels.

body_structure and Materials: The addition’s lingual scheme consists relating to light-gauge argent framing and “mini-beam” genuine slabs. Recycled-aluminum panels—both solid and perforated—clad the tower. meshing yea appears at inwards the form as respects riser railings and risers.

supplemental info
completion boy: dec 2023
land_site sizing: .037 lithosphere
number construction be: Withheld
Client/Owner: Withheld

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Credits

architect
MODU
119 8th highways and byways
brooklyn NY 11231
212-343-4203
www.MODUarchitecture.com

projection team_up
Phu Hoang, Rachely Rotem, Diego Fernandez Morales, dunghill fowl and pence Alice fang Jiri Vala

Engineers
lexicological Silman
MEP: Engineering Solutions
embodiment binder void vim design
mood engineering_science TransSolar

Consultants
landscape rachel shahzada Gardens

general Contractor
LL tactics Homes LLC

photographer
Michael Moran

Specifications

exterior Cladding
lion panels: Morin
moisture mat connaisseur Clima

windows
afforestation border Ikon
palladium limb Ikon

Doors
metallic doors: Ikon

Glazing
Skylights: Fakro, Lamilux