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Pulled Plaster Loft

Architecture / Interiors

Tribeca (NYC),
New York

5,500ft² / 510m²

Completed 2015

Images /
Drawings /
Awards + Publications

Research:
Pulled Plaster Panels 
The Pulled Plaster Loft occupies the top two floors and rooftop of an historic cast iron Tribeca building. The spatial concept explores shifting relationships of solid and void through the interplay of three distinct nested prisms.

At the entrance to the loft, a large courtyard opens the interior to the landscape, sky, and city. This initial void is subsequently revealed to be bounded by a larger cut through to the floor below, allowing the courtyard to be read as a floating glass mass bridging the east and west sides of the plan, and opening the section between floors. The larger cut also exposes the building’s service and stair core as a monolithic mass that grounds the choreography of void and solid dancing around it.

This core is clad in custom pulled plaster panels, a technique developed through the controlled collision of a centuries-old fabrication technique with contemporary design language. The project is formally restrained, but spatially provocative.

Plaster Material Research and Fabrication with Butter and Eggs


Photography by Naho Kubota





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2015
Elle Decor

Abitare

Citation Award, AIA New York Design Awards
Oculus Magazine

Best Interior Product, Azure
ArchDaily
Tectonica

Architizer A+ Award for Apartments (Special Mention), Architizer
Research and Design Award (Citation), Architect Magazine
NYCxDesign Award for Large Single Family Residence (Finalist), Interior Design
AN Interior
Architect Magazine
New York Magazine
NBC Open House
Curbed New York
The Cut

Best of Design Award for Interior Residential, The Architect’s Newspaper

Pulled Plaster Loft


Architecture / Interiors

Tribeca (NYC),
New York

5,500ft² / 510m²

Completed 2015

Images /
Drawings /
Awards + Publications

Research:
Pulled Plaster Panels
The Pulled Plaster Loft occupies the top two floors and rooftop of an historic cast iron Tribeca building. The spatial concept explores shifting relationships of solid and void through the interplay of three distinct nested prisms.

At the entrance to the loft, a large courtyard opens the interior to the landscape, sky, and city. This initial void is subsequently revealed to be bounded by a larger cut through to the floor below, allowing the courtyard to be read as a floating glass mass bridging the east and west sides of the plan, and opening the section between floors. The larger cut also exposes the building’s service and stair core as a monolithic mass that grounds the choreography of void and solid dancing around it.

This core is clad in custom pulled plaster panels, a technique developed through the controlled collision of a centuries-old fabrication technique with contemporary design language. The project is formally restrained, but spatially provocative.

Plaster Material Research and Fabrication with Butter and Eggs


Photography by Naho Kubota