AROUND BACK 2.0
CANARSIE, BROOKLYN
SITUATION: A new retail building at the edge of an apartment complex turns AN entRANCE into an alleyway.
IDEA: incoRPORATE graphics to minimize ITS visual impact.
1.Everyday route
This 5,200ft² commercial building in Canarsie Brooklyn became possible after a BSA approval allowing a retail building on the apartment complex property. The new building changes the pedestrian route into the apartments. It’s walls turn the original apartment street entrance into an alleyway.
2. from soil to earth
The rear walls of the building were inspired by soil layering found at the site. Covid forced a mid-construction change of material and the graphic turned into a geological diagram of the earth.
3. views
View from retail corridor Ralph Ave.
View from Bergen Ave sidewalk.
View at Bergen Ave. entrance.
View from apartment garden walkway.
information
Completion: 2021
Gross floor area": 5,200ft²
Client: The Hudson Companies
Project architect: Resituated Architecture
Structural engineer: A Degree of Freedom PLLC
Mechanical engineer: ATOZ Consulting Engineers PC
Contractor: Casella Construction Corporation
Photographer: Chris Mottalini