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Slide Loft New York : Manhattan Apartment Design

Residential Development New York design by Ben Hansen Architect

Jul 16, 2009

The Slide Loft

Date built: 2009

Design: Ben Hansen Architect

Lofts, with their high ceilings and large floor plates, have become the ideal of urban living but the conversion of these spaces to residences often fails to take advantage of their potential. Unlike a warehouse, an apartment requires a number of individual rooms, each with its own privacy requirements. If the loft is simply divided into smaller rooms, the openness of the original space is lost. A different architectural approach is needed.

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images : Ben Hansen Architect

For a loft space in downtown Manhattan, we inserted an object into the space to accommodate the majority of the residential functions. The two secondary bedrooms in the rear of the space are visually connected to the main space through a wood and translucent glass wall. The space outside the object remains a continuous generous and open space.

The inserted object is in fact an object within an object. A section of the box is cantilevered out of the original form in two directions. The void which remains after the shifting becomes the circulation within the box. This shifting also establishes the raised floor level within the object. The elevated floor level allows us to create compelling sectional relationship across the box’s porous skin.

The inserted object also provides the loft with mechanical services. The mechanical equipment and ductwork run above the occupied space and the plumbing and return air run in the space below.

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images : Ben Hansen Architect

By treating the intervention as an insertion rather than division, we were able to maintain the openness of the loft and create a compelling dualism between the original space and our intervention.

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