Rem Koolhaas率いるOMAによるレジデンスタワープロジェクト
Brad Pittら蒼々たるスターを擁する世界的モデルエージェンシーCAA監修の
Screening Room が特徴です。
映画鑑賞、バー、クローク等の機能を階段状の吹き抜け大空間に有機的に配置しており、これまでにないクリエイティブな空間に興味を誘います。
最近のラグジャリーレジデンスタワーには斬新なコンセプト空間が構築されていますけれど、日本でも、そろそろ期待したいところですね。
そのためにも(以前にも書きましたが)23 East 22nd Streetの事例のように
柔軟なパートナーの起用がポイントだと思います。
柔軟なパートナーの起用といえば、重松象平氏がOMAのクリエイティブディレクターとして今件を担当されているようです。
OMA’s first building in New York City, 23 East 22nd Street aims to provide an intuitive resolution to the challenge of creating a luxury residential tower in a culture of congestion. The building’s external form and internal organization are a deliberate reaction to its immediate context. Located just off Madison Square Park, on a site just 33 feet wide, the building is the final phase of Slazer Enterprises One Madison Park development, which also includes a 60-story tower on 23rd Street, currently under construction.
The base of 23 East 22nd Street is a transparent screening room that has a view to the city. More than the typical New York building, the tower above had to respond to a number of complex demands: in addition to the zoning law and neighbors, it had to avoid blocking the view of One Madison Park, its 60-story neighbor to the north. Using the complexity—even strangeness—of the site, unusual qualities were introduced to the apartments: irregular ceiling heights, views around the tower to the north, and overhangs with windows to the city below.
Form
Rising to a height of 355 feet, 23 East 22nd Street stretches up to the east and steps-back from, gaining additional area as it cantilevers 30 feet over its neighbor. This asymmetrical from simultaneously provides views of Madison Square Park whilst maximizing light penetration to the neighbors below. Mirroring the traditional New York setback, the building’s form is at once familiar and unique.
Residences/Variety
As the building steps out to the east and then back from the west, the area of every other floor differs. balconies at the upper part of the building and floor windows at the lower part. At the highest and lowest portions of the building, loft-like scenarios are played out while in the larger, middle floors, lower ceilings reinforce the units’ panoramic breadth and help establish a more intimate scale.
Structure
23 East 22nd Street is supported by a structural façade: a set of shear walls with openings for light and air that has been developed in collaboration with structural engineers WSP Cantor Seinuk. In areas under greatest stress, the window spacing is modified to provide increased structural area and rigidity, supporting the building like a structural corset.
Screening Room
At the building’s base, the Creative Artists Agency (CAA) Screening Room provides an important cultural anchor for the building. The slope of the screening room is allowed to continue to the ground level, playfully connecting the building’s most prominent and public feature to the street.
Within the screening room, a pre-function lounge and the screening room seating are both accommodated on a single grand stair. Larger steps within the grand stair are designed to host pre-function events whilst spaces that serve the screening room—bar, cloakroom, casual seating, projection booth—are embedded within.
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