HOUSE FOR THREE GENERATIONS
Location: Brooklyn, NY
Status: Completed
Scale: 5000 sq. ft.
Collaborators: LERA, ABS Engineering, Dot Dash, K Hoyt Landscape
Built By: Grant Davis Thompson
Photography: Max Burkhalter
Landscape Photography: Dan Wonderly
Location: Brooklyn, NY
Status: Completed
Scale: 5000 sq. ft.
Collaborators: LERA, ABS Engineering, Dot Dash, K Hoyt Landscape
Built By: Grant Davis Thompson
Photography: Max Burkhalter
Landscape Photography: Dan Wonderly
Located in historic Brooklyn Heights, this
Federal-era townhouse is home to a family comprised of three generations. The new rear extension with its
wood-and-glass windowed façade allows sunlight to reach deep into the narrow
house, creates multiple connections between inside and out, and provides framed
views of the family’s beloved Japanese Pagoda tree from each floor.
The owners wanted to create spaces for peaceful retreat among their books and ceramics. We designed the extension with thick walls and embedded them with shelves from bottom to top to house their collections. The house flexes and contracts to make space for the extended family to live both together and privately within the five stories.
The owners wanted to create spaces for peaceful retreat among their books and ceramics. We designed the extension with thick walls and embedded them with shelves from bottom to top to house their collections. The house flexes and contracts to make space for the extended family to live both together and privately within the five stories.