TURETT COLLABORATIVE ARCHITECTS

47 Walker Street Loft, New York, NY

Project Description

Client: 47 Walker Street Loft, New York, NY

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This was originally a 1,200 square foot apartment that the office of Turett Collaborative Architects expanded into a brighter, grander and more dramatic duplex loft.

The architects designed a second floor at roof level, and organized the space "upside down," i.e., with the public spaces upstairs and the bedrooms on the lower level. For this reason the entry sequence had to be carefully detailed; a small foyer leads to stairs in an enclosure 23' high and under 50 square feet of skylights.

Wayne Turett and his team raised the upper floor living room ceiling to 13'8" and opened the south facing wall to accommodate a wall of insulated windows 17' across and 13' high. Above the doorway, a steel bris-soleil shades the window in the sun; it is mirrored on the interior by an aluminum panel that reflects all the light onto the ceiling, which illuminates the space even more deeply.

An 8' wide terrace beyond the living room doors is connected by an outdoor scissor stair to a second, rooftop terrace; a third space is open to the outdoors via an opening in the building's façade, but it takes the shape of a room. It's an unusual configuration: an interior porch, that's accessible from both the master bedroom and the second bedroom.

Because the improvement was commissioned by the developer of the building, the designers had to devise a plan to appeal to the broadest swath of potential buyers. Their configuration of three bedrooms downstairs is luxurious, and the Baulthaup kitchen will be attractive to buyers as well.

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