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a skip-stop elevator allows duplex units - the soft zone becomes a naturally ventilated and light-filled double height space
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ARCHITECT
Jinhee Park AIA, John Hong AIA/LEED (principals in charge), Erik Carlson, Anne Levallois, Sadmir Ovcina, Youngju Baik, Chris Minor, Hyeyoung Kim
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Soft Lofts | Brooklyn, NY | 2006
Rather than consider 'Urban' and 'Soft' as contradictory concepts, this project rethinks the terms as couterparts to one another. Instead of a series of windows that polarize notions of inside and outside, two transformable layers are utilized: The outer skin becomes a system of operable clear windows while the inner skin utilizes sliding panels with printed 'windows' that transition between clear and opaque. The space that is captured between these layers is a kind of 'soft' zone - neither outside nor inside, but a gradation between the two. From the interior, the additional perceptual depth allows users to innovate previous conceptions of the domestic.
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