The Brooklyn Carriage House
RESIDENTIAL
ADP Architects helped navigate the New York Landmarks approval process for the renovation of a historic carriage house into an AIA Brooklyn Design Award-winning mass timber home. More project details.
As the historic preservation consultant, ADP Architects helped a designing architect transform an 1870s Brooklyn carriage house with water and fire damage into an award-winning mass timber home featured in The New York Times. It is the very first single-family residence in New York City to be renovated using mass timber construction methods.
Sector: Residential; Historic Preservation
Location: Brooklyn, NY
Scope: Architectural Design and Planning; Historic Preservation
Design Architect: Schiller Projects
Project Type: Interior Renovation; Exterior Restoration
Status: Completed
This 150-year-old home in Brooklyn’s Clinton Hill neighborhood was purchased by a couple who intended to design a healthy space in which to start a family. The design architect, Schiller Projects, hired ADP Architects to help their vision of creating a mass timber home with Japan-inspired details come to life with approvals from the New York Landmarks Commission.
The historic Brooklyn Carriage House underwent an interior renovation that included a penthouse master bedroom addition overlooking a neighboring church, which ADP helped pass through the Landmarks approvals process.
As Landmark consultants, ADP Architects advised the owner-architects in the transformation of their historic residence into a mass timber architectural beauty, with intricate wooden detailing and a live tree installation in the middle of the home. As problem solvers with a particular strength in adapting the core tenets of historic preservation toward modern renovations, we partner with design architects to make their visions function seamlessly from a technical and preservation-informed perspective.
Design Architect: Schiller Projects. Architect of Record; Preservation Consultant: Acheson Doyle Partners Architects, P.C. Photography by Frank Frances, All Rights Reserved.
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