13 Unit Multifamily Residential Condominium and Community Facility
New Construction 37,000 SF

Conceived as an exploration into alternative urban housing typologies, this project sought to reimagine how residents move through, inhabit, and share space within a multifamily building.
Rather than relying solely on enclosed interior corridors, all residences are accessed through exterior walkways and terraces. These outdoor circulation paths act as connective tissue, forming a semi public realm within the building and allowing each unit to remain porous to light, air, and the changing seasons. Circulation becomes architectural scaffolding: wrapping the volumes, mediating between public and private, and creating moments of encounter without sacrificing individuality.

The residences are conceived less as conventional apartments and more as urban villas in the city. Each unit is distinct in plan and section, shaped by its relationship to the street, the interior courtyard, and the layered outdoor spaces that surround it. Adjacencies to terraces and shared circulation give every home direct access to exterior space, while large openings toward both the street and the courtyard ensure cross light and varied views. The interior courtyard anchors the composition, bringing daylight deep into the plan and organizing the building’s circulation strategy.

At grade, parking is tucked beneath the residential volumes and capped by a planted roof garden that becomes a shared landscape for residents above. Along the street frontage, a community facility space activates the sidewalk and extends the building’s engagement with the neighborhood.

Baltic Street marked our first collaboration with Tankhouse and SO–IL and served as a precursor to many of the housing ideas later developed at 450 Warren and 134 Vanderbilt. Baltic established a framework for housing that treats circulation as social space, exterior access as amenity, and each dwelling as a unique spatial condition, ideas that continue to inform our work on Brooklyn housing.

This project was in collaboration with SO-IL Architects