75 Kenmare Residential Building / Andre Kikoski

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来自建筑事务所的描述：75 Kenmare表达了关于建筑物质性、坚固性和比例清晰性的基础，其富有诗意的混凝土立面由最简单的材料制成，加以极富想象力的细节设计，创造出一座具有永恒和硬朗外观的建筑。建筑坐落在繁华的Kenmare和Mulberry步行大道上，这里是诺利塔的中心，也是索霍区，诺霍区，下东区，小意大利的交界处，这座面积为83000平方英尺的住宅楼提供了38个面积从600到3000平方英尺不等的公寓。

Text description provided by the architects. The architecture of 75 Kenmare is about the fundamentals of materiality, solidity, and proportional clarity. Its poetic concrete facade is made out of the simplest of materials and executed with imaginative detailing to create a building with a timeless and robust presence. Sitting at the bustling pedestrian thoroughfare of Kenmare and Mulberry, in the very heart of NoLita — at the junction of Soho, NoHo, the Lower East Side, and Little Italy — the 83,000 square foot residential building offers 38 apartments ranging in size from 600 to 3,000 square feet.



AIA创始人兼负责人Andre Kikoski说：“我们希望将我们对基本材料的热爱和精心设计的细节与手工制作的工艺结合起来，打造一座既能激发灵感又能服务周边地区的建筑。我们的目标是设计出一座新奇而清新的现代建筑，但也完全可以从其充满活力的环境中获得许多层次和历史氛围，从而在城市中创造一种独特的地方归属感。”

"We wanted to combine our love of basic materials and thoughtful detailing with handcrafted workmanship to create a building that both inspires and gives to its neighborhood," says Andre Kikoski, AIA the founder and principal. "Our goal was to create a building that is startlingly crisp and contemporary, but is also completely at ease with the many layers and lessons of history from its vibrant surroundings to create a singular sense of place in the city.”





在75 Kenmare公寓中，Kikoski解决了建筑与该地区的物理和文化关系，建筑材料的精心选择，创造了一座全新的住宅建筑，让这座住宅建筑编织在街区的结构中，不仅解决了这些问题，并且使其具有吸引力和持久性。这座建筑的体量体现了社区的规模，同时通过一个清晰的混凝土立面与周围环境形成对比。虽然混凝土不是当代城市住宅建筑的常规选择，但它可以拥有任何形状、形式或颜色，将这一地区真实的砂砾残留物及其丰富的历史映射到一个高度原始的立面上。

At 75 Kenmare, Kikoski addresses the building’s physical and cultural relationship to the area, the careful selection of construction materials, and the challenge of creating a new vision for a residential building knit into the very fabric of a neighborhood — and resolves them all with deeply engaging and enduring architecture. The building’s massing speaks to the scale of the neighborhood while contrasting with its surroundings through a distinctly detailed concrete facade. While concrete is not a conventional or common choice for a contemporary urban residential building, it’s humble ingredients can be cast into any shape, form, or color — mapping the gritty residue of this authentic area and its rich history onto a highly original facade.



这座建筑的灵感来源于居住在这一地区的唐纳德·贾德的作品，以及阿尔瓦罗·西扎和拉斐尔·莫尼奥的建筑中所见的纯粹的物质性和雕刻的光线品质。Kikoski说：“我们对我们创造的建筑及其在世界上的地位进行了深思熟虑，我们的建筑深深依赖于材料的正确选择和处理。混凝土是75 Kenmare的最佳选择。它具有内在的可塑性，使我们能够呈现简单的线性通道形式，当它们上升到建筑的垂直高度时，这些形式会体现在立面上。每一条混凝土线和每一个混凝土平面的铺设都是为了调节不断变化的阳光。这些消极和积极形式的变化在建筑的表皮上为光的发挥和阴影的短暂停留创造了空间，为路过的人们创造了一种诗意和欢乐的感觉。”

The building takes inspiration from sources such as the work of Donald Judd, who lived in the area, and the pure materiality and sculpted light qualities seen in the architecture of álvaro Siza and Rafael Moneo. “We are deliberate about the buildings we create and their place in the world,” says Kikoski adding “our architecture relies deeply on the proper choice and handling of materials. Concrete is the perfect selection for 75 Kenmare. It is inherently malleable allowing us to render simple linear channel-like forms that move in and out of their facade as they rise the vertical height of the building. With deceptive simplicity, each line and plane of the concrete is placed to modulate the shifting sunlight. These variations of negative and positive form make space in the skin of the building for the play of light and the ephemeral beauty of shade and shadow, creating a sense of poetry and joy for all who pass by.



“项目的本质是致力于创造一座积极参与社区生活的建筑。它位于突出的角落，毗邻公共公园，建筑体量和六个大面积的窗户和一个丰富种植的二楼冥想花园，从视觉和空间上流入公共公园。这种策略产生柔和的边缘和渗透空间，融合了整个社区和建筑。多层铜窗框镶嵌在混凝土表皮上，与诺利塔的比例和建筑语言相呼应，使建筑具有诱人的人性尺度。”

“ Inherent in the architecture is a commitment to creating a building that actively participates in the life of the neighborhood. Sited on a prominent corner and adjacent to a public park, the massing of the building is organized to create six extensively windowed facades and an abundantly planted second-floor meditative garden that flows visually and spatially into the public park. This strategy makes softly-edged and generously permeable spaces that generate engaging views throughout and within the neighborhood and the building. The multi-story bronze window frames set into the concrete skin respond to the proportions and architectural language of NoLita, and give the building an inviting human scale.







最重要的是，75 Kenmare强调的生活是社区的一部分，而不是封闭在私有化的便利设施。建筑物的入口为过路人提供了宽敞的天棚，天棚向上延伸，种植的垂直花园墙将自然带到街道上。一个细致入微的玻璃大厅正面是一面玻璃墙。拐角处，二楼的花园露台与下方的公园相连，与附近的公共空间保持着郁郁葱葱的连续性。里面的公寓被布置在一个开放的阁楼里，这种生活方式起源于20世纪60年代早期，额外的居住设施包括一个种植的屋顶花园和一个健身房。

Above all, 75 Kenmare emphasizes a life that is part of the neighborhood rather than enclosed in privatized amenities. The entry to the building gives generously to passers-by with an ample canopy extending above and a planted vertical garden wall that brings nature onto the street. A detailed vitrine-like lobby is fronted with a wall of glass. Around the corner, a landscaped second-floor garden terrace cascades to the park below to offer a lush continuity with the public spaces of the neighborhood. The apartments inside are laid out in an open loft – a living style that originated in the area during the early 1960s. Additional resident facilities include a planted rooftop garden and a gym.



75 Kenmare表明了AKA致力于打造既能满足周围环境又与周围环境密不可分的建筑。对于Andre Kikoski来说，建筑是永恒且新奇的，它能够吸引感官，愉悦眼睛，提升人们的精神。最重要的是，必须有地方感和强大的社区意识。在城市、自然和文化的十字路口，75 Kenmare回馈了社区，它是即时的地标，也是一封献给城市的情书。

75 Kenmare is indicative of AKA's commitment to crafting architecture that is both generous to its surroundings and inseparable from its context. For Andre Kikoski, buildings must be timeless and new, engage the senses, delight the eye and lift the spirit of all. Above all else, they must have a sense of place and build a strong sense of community. At a crossroads for the city and nature and culture, 75 Kenmare gives back to the neighborhood. It is an instant landmark and a love letter to the city.

















建筑设计：Andre Kikoski
类型：公寓
面积：83000 平方英尺（约7711平方米）
项目时间：2021年
主创建筑师：Andre Kikoski
城市：纽约
国家：美国

Apartments•New York, United States
Architects: Andre Kikoski
Area: 83000 ft2
Year: 2021
Lead Architects: Andre Kikoski
City: New York
Country: United States