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Partner-in-Charge: David Sherman
Completed: 2003
Project Team: Sebastian Kaempf
A major metropolitan developer had previously advanced the creation of a
unique Manhattan land parcel with a Special Permit from the City Planning
Commission. The complicated land usage required that a pair of small
townhouses within the parcel be treated in such a fashion as to bring them
up to current building codes, and to reconfigure them in various ways so as
to be developable in their own right.
The project required the relocation of a duct related to the exhausts from
an adjoining lot, a duct the size of a building. Moreover, all new egress
paths had to be established for a highly complex array of scenarios from
several structures within the parcel. Fire escapes on facades were
reconfigured, and an all new residential floor was designed for one of the
buildings.
The architects worked with the developers for a number of years helping to
conceive the proper strategy for the site, along with many legal, zoning and
code experts.
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