508 West 20th Street skeleton, New York, United States

«If God is in the details, then few projects can be more devine than the High Line»*

The «High Line Park» is an urban park created in Manhattan in New York. Built on abandoned railway lines overhead Lower West Side, this natural suspension is the result of a joint venture between two local residents who began in 1999 and formed the association «Friends of the High Line» which will lead the project .

Bertille BORDJA - `June 2012

Skeleton of 508 W 20th Street is erected along the High Line. Floors, beams and columns visible, it did not end his pregnancy.

Multiprogrammatique project, it was about giving life to the skeleton, give him a destina-tion, and invest the plot in line with that on which it rests. The challenge was to respect the natural appearance of the building.

My hope was to commit a tactful action not to denature the first glance I had looking at this naked building, almost carnal.

Art gallery, library, cafeteria and guests apartment surrounded the premises.

In a slow, on a parcel of 19th Street there are dressing rooms and workshop together over-looking the park. Then, along the sidewalk of 19th Street, sits a volume of through-housing with views over the city.

Faced with the verticality New York just as fascinating intimidating, the High Line sur-prised by its horizontality. Therefore the project also invested «Under the High Line.» A relaxation, games, exhibition or just passing through, quietly linking the 20th and 19th.

508 W 20th street Friends of the High Line office Art gallery

Chelsea: not less than one hundred art galleries listed. Order to guide his desires on that form of art or artist, the project proposes a «Art Galleries House»: an interactive place where we would learn, find out current exhibitions in the neighborhood.

At this level, «Under the High Line» is invested as an outdoor area exposure, associated with a basketball court.The Friends of the High Line has its offices at 529 20th Street. At 508, the project’s suite of association with a bookstore / library. In this place, you may refer all media relating to the High Line and neighborhood. This space is connected to the «Aquarium». Almost suspended in the structure of the High Line overlooking the «Under».Lacked space for a coffee break during a stroll in the park. The project has developed a coffee shop at the third level of 508, with the roof of the Aquarium that connects to the High Line.On the top floor, the project proposes a space reserved for guests of the association. This living space has been designed so that it remains the most flexible as possible to a different destination (reception, mini-conferences, exhibitions).Artists, who reside in the heart of island, have workshop place that looks at the park and is the relationship/link between their homes. The volume has been rotated 35 degrees to preserve the view of the skeleton and invite them to his discovery. Inside there is only one wall of which backs the flight of stairs which extends over the entire height of the building. This wall also serves to create a separation between wet and dry parts.This building is connected to the housing of 19th Street through the open volume of vertical circulation that creates a loophole and breathing in this mass that welcomes and duplex homes that matches the depth of adjacent volumetrics.

Environement

+ skeleton

Empty plot

volumetric work

All along the HL space below the old rails is still invested by the parking or structures... Is that possible to bring some life under High Line ?

Masterplan • Scale 1/500°

Bird’s eye from South

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View from a building on 22th street on South of Manhattan

Panoramic view on the «under High Line» on 20th Street

View from High Line on the North

View from 19th Street

Level 1 • Scale 1/100°

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_a Art Gallery House1_ reception 66,7 m2

2_ tactile room 83 m2

Bathroom 7 m2

Technical premises 9 m2

Basketball bathroom 13 m2

_b Artist Housing 78 m2

Duplex RDC 36 m2

1_ room 12,8 m2

2_ room 11,7 m2

Bathroom 4,8 m2

Toilets 1,6 m2

Entry/clearence/storage 10,3 m2

_Housing on 19th Street

Premises bike 8,6 m2

Premises garbage 4,8 m2

c Housing on North 36 m2

1_ kitchen/living room 17 m2 2_ room 10,9 m2

Bathroom 3,6 m2

d Housing on West 54,2 m2

1_ living room 20,7 m2

2_ kitchen 6,2 m2

3_ room 10,4 m2

4_ room 10,4 m2

Bathroom 45 m2

Toilets 1,5 m2

Entry/clrc 5,37 m2

e Housing on East 51,3 m2

1_ kitchen/living 22,5 m2

2_ room 14,8 m2

Bathroom 3,2 m2

Toilets 1,5 m2

Entry/clrc 7 m2

Level 1

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vide sur RDC - 3 m

Level 2

_a FHL Bookshop - Library1_ consultation area 123 m2

2_ office 12,2 m2

3_ office 12,2 m2 4_ aquarium 59,7 m2

Bathroom 14,2 m2

Storage/maintenance 4,2 m2

_R+1 Logement pour artiste 42 m2

1_ kitchen 12,5 m2

2_ living 29,5 m2

_ Logement 19e rue

b. Logement Nord 69 m2

Duplex Level 1 36,5 m2

1_ kitchen 11,4 m2

2_ living 15 m2

3_ sotreroom 3,34 m2

Toilets 1,6 m2

Entry/clrc 5,23 m2

Terrace 7 m2

c. Logements Ouest 95,5 m2

Duplex Level 1 54,1 m2

1_ room in more 9,95 m2

2_ living/kitchen 27,8m2

3_ storeroom m2

Bathroom 3,4 m2 Toilets 1,6 m2

Entry/clrc 9 m2

d. Logement Est 76,8 m2

Duplex level 1 46,5 m2

1_ living 21,2 m2

2_ room 9 m2

3_ kitchen 6,8 m2

4_ storeroom 1,6 m2

Bathroom 2,2 m2

Toilets 1,5 m2

Terrace 4,8 m2

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vide sur salon - 3m

vide sur salon - 3m

vide sur salon - 3m

vide sur RDC -6m

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Level 3 _a Coffeshop

1_ reserve / preparation 10,2 m2

2_ cloakroom 3,4 m2

3_ bar 16,1 m2 4_ relaxing space 95,7 m2

Terrace 24,3 m2

_b Artists Place 40,1 m2Workshop space 37,9 m2

Toilets 2,25 m2

_Housing on 19th Street

Housing on North 69 m2

Duplex Level 21_ room 11,7 m2

2_ room 10,8 m2

Toilets/bathroom 5,8 m2

Clrc 4,3 m2

Housing on West 95,5 m2

Duplex Level 2 43,4 m2

1_ mezzanine 10,28 m2

2_ room 12,2 m2

3_ room 9,7 m2

Toilets 2,8 m2 Bathroom 4,9 m2 Clrc 5,6 m2

Housing on East 76,8 m2

Duplex Level 2 30,3 m2

1_ room 9,95 m2

2_ room 9,95 m2

Bathroom 4,7 m2

Clrc 5,8 m2

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Level 4

_a Guest appartment1_ dressing room/storage 5,3 m2

2_ kitchenette 225x60cm3_ sofa 227x60 cm 4_ clear space 82 m2

Bathroom 2,25 m2

Toilets 1,18 m2

Terrace 61 m2

_b Artists housing 67,8 m2 Duplex level 1 40,4 m2

1_ kitchen 10,2 m2

2_ living 28,9 m2

Toilets 1,4 m2

_Housing on 19th

c Housing on West95,5 m2

DITTO story two

d Housing East 76,8 m2

DITTO story two

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«Leave free the field of the possible» Noam Chomsky

Wet central block closed

Wet central block open

Thanks to sliding walls longitudinalement and transversely, the apartment offers 16 possibilities of arrangement

«Guest Appartment», modular appartment, panoramic terace

vide sur salon - 3m

vide sur salon - 3m

vide sur salon - 3m

vide sur salon - 3m

Level 5

_Artists Housing 67,8 m2Duplex level 2 27,2 m2

room 21,4 m2

bathroom 5,9 m2

_Housing on 19th s

Housing on West 95,5 m2

DITTO story 3 Housing on East 76,8 m2

DITTO story 3

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