在现有的规划中,Renwick有8300平方英尺(近800平米)的户外空间。ODA试图通过创新的方式来更好的应用土地。标准屋顶天窗的规则决定了建筑退界。通过理解这一规则,ODA可以剖析和重新分配Renwick的高层区域,将大面积区域打开作为私人露台。同时采用玻璃门窗无缝衔接室内外,为室内提供理想的日照。通过这样的方式释放户外空间,让居民可以有更多机会和邻居交流。今天,越来越多的居民放弃了这些重要的互动,ODA力图挽回过去的生活方式,增进人们之间的相互交流并提升生活品质。
Here, that innovation was delivered by way of the standard dormer rule, governing the amount of square footage that can encroach into a building’s setback line. By reinterpreting the rule, ODA was able to dissect and redistribute Renwick’s upper massing, opening large geometric pockets for private terraces. Meanwhile, the use of glass windows and doors to demarcate terracing creates seamless indoor-outdoor connectivity, and ideal sun exposure. In these ways—freeing up outdoor space, opening opportunities for residents to engage with others and with the elements—ODA once again instantiates a coherent, and well-documented, mission: As increasingly crowded city-dwellers sacrifice these vital interactions for the convenience of location, the firm aims to incorporate what we’ve lost back into New York’s upward sprawl—to restore, and improve, our quality of living. Renwick’s outdoor area, totaling 8,300 square feet, results from consummate expertise in zoning, which consistently allows ODA to flip the rulebook in its favor—to experience New York City’s labyrinthine zoning code not as an inhibitor, but as a launchpad for innovation.
▼户外空间体块分析图,an study of the outdoor space