VACCARO LOFT

RESIDENTIAL SOHO, NEW YORK | 2004

CLIENT loft building. One apartment wall is Vaccaro Family thickened to contain the bathrooms. Within the resulting volume, a sleeping ROLE loft, kitchen, and storage areas are Architect of Record for Concept Design, integrated into one piece of domestic Schematic Design, Programming, Design furniture by taut, lacquered surfaces Development, Bidding and Negotiating, which stretch over them. Construction Documentation and Con- struction Administration. One surface forms the cabinet faces, kitchen backsplash, and the loft LEAD DESIGNERS underside, while the other forms its Thomas Leeser topside, featuring a long, low walkway, which allows for unobstructed headroom SIZE 1,400 square feet to access the sleeping areas of the COST $1 million platform. The walkway creates a unique sectional interlock as it drops below AWARDS the line of the platform underside to 2005 AIA Small Projects Award accommodate a standing occupant above. Tapering and meeting at a single PROGRAM long edge facing the dining and entry Leeser Architecture designed the entire zones, the surfaces announce their renovation of this apartment including thinness and de-emphasize the depth bathrooms, loft space, kitchen and living of the platform internal structure. This room. domestic fixture defines the zones of the daily domestic ritual, while the remaining DESIGN COMMENTS volume of the apartment is devoted to The Vaccaro family of four approached living, dining, and play space, and is open Leeser Architecture with the request to to full height ceilings. re-imagine their living space as a series of compact and rigorously engineered open zones within a typical New York industrial

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