PRESENTATION
Architectural design and site plan for the 500 Kent Avenue project
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Nebil Gokcebay from Marvel Architects presents the architectural design and site plan for the 500 Kent Avenue project. The presentation covers the building's orientation, massing, and integration with the surrounding area.
- The project acts as a juncture between different developments along the waterfront
- Multiple street grids converge at the site, influencing the design
- The building consists of two volumes: a lower volume to the north and a taller volume to the south
- The design maintains view corridors and provides multiple access points to the waterfront
Nebil Gokcebay
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Next like.
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I'll I'll introduce myself.
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Sorry.
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Neville from Marvel Architects.
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So this is illustration just showing the the Brooklyn Navy Yard development and the location of the 500 Ken site just in the north of it, just south of the Williamsburg Waterfront.
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Another illustration of kind of development along the waterfront with the domino development on the far left, various other residential projects on the on the right, and then the far right is the Navy Yard in Dock 92.
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Light blue is the future navy art development, and then the pink site in the center is the the location of 500.
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Kinda acting as this juncture between those kind of strings of development.
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Just a note about the design and the orientation for how the masking developed.
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Multiple street gates kinda come together.
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Along division, actually.
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And part of the site plan review and analysis was about introducing seeing a a third access through the site.
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So the site has multiple entries to access the the future of waterfront, Espenade.
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And introducing the diagonal axis in the image on the right is, you know, a homage to the the one of the priors Street grades that that never made it all the way through the waterfront in the project.
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This is a a site plan of the project showing kind of the 2 volumes that make up the building, low volume to the north.
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Taller, taller to the south in the pink area, also illustrating the the various access points of the site.
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To the south is a visual quarter.
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That's designed as an upland connect connection, the required upland connection on the north side along division, and then the additional access point kinda through the center of the site.
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Since it is a very large frontage, it does kind of provide multiple vantage points and access to the the the waterfront.
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The massing of the building is illustrated in in this diagram.
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We you can see the the low volume along division, which allows kind of the view corridor all the way up from Bedford down division out to the waterfront.
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To kind of be maintained by having the low volume there.
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And then you also have the the cut through at the center of the site providing that additional access point.
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And then the orientation of the volume adds a little bit of interest shifting off the the axis and aligning to the the street grid there.
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Next few slides are actually just various views of the project.
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So this is a view north on division.
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This is a view you on Kent at the south side of the high site looking at the visual corner, looking up Kent.
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This is a view at the center of the site at Kent illustrating kind of the proposed illustrative lobby entrance area.
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And then with this, I think I can hand it over to Rick Preece to talk to the waterfront.
