Carroll Gardens Rowhouse

A R C H I T E C T S

(2005)

Corten steel fence

The shade pattern is abstracted from photographs of a neighbor's fig tree. We traced the densest areas of fig shadows on fig leaves in the photographs and composed them such that both hole and material have equal figural reading.

The 16’ wide, 140 year-old row house is transformed by selectively stripping away historic layers and adding back new details in contrast to the old. Each detail results from a single idea acting on one material: folding aluminum discs into spherical light fixtures; water-jet cutting weathering steel panels with shifting foliage-shadow patterns to make a fence; perforating a tapered plywood box with the same pattern; punching and bending raw steel sheet for cabinetry.

Design Brooklyn:

https://design-brooklyn.tumblr.com/post/49377997733/a-shade-cut-fence-on-carroll-street

Fence Pattern

The pattern repeats every second panel, and shifts down with each repeat from front to back. Because the pattern is more open at the top, the fence panels are more closed and private at the seating area and more open and transparent at the back

Detail of cabinetry

Abstracted fig tree shadows repeated on custom storage cabinets