4 Unit Multifamily Residential Condominium
7,940 SF

Leonard Street is a four-unit residential building on a narrow 25 foot wide lot in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. The project is organized around a central interior court that serves as the primary circulation space and the social heart of the building, allowing all units to be accessed through a shared, light-filled interior environment rather than a conventional enclosed corridor.

The residences are configured as duplex units, each with a dual orientation to the interior court and either the street or rear yard. This arrangement supports natural cross ventilation, generous daylighting, and a clear relationship between private living spaces and shared circulation. The court operates as both an outdoor room and a connective spine, blurring the boundary between circulation and inhabitable space.

As a shared space, the interior court extends the living environment beyond the individual units, creating opportunities for informal gathering, visual connection, and outdoor use throughout the building. The project continues and refines ideas previously explored at 9 Chapel and 450 Warren, where circulation, light, and shared spaces are treated as active architectural elements that shape daily experience rather than residual space.

Project is in collaboration with Ted Baab of BAAB