Architect Demirjolo presents 69-67 108th Street massing and design
Architect Tahir Demirjolo presents the building design: mediating between R7-1 and low-density districts, stepping down toward low-density, dividing massing into multiple pieces, no cellar/parking for stormwater management, green buffer zones, and central core exposed to street for daylight.
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Hi, my name is Tahir Demirjolo.
I'm the architect for the project.
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So the project is located between two distinct zoning districts, R7-1 and R1, well, low and medium density district.
And our project is trying to mediate between these two densities.
We tried to create the main massing volume along 108th Street, where it can support a higher building, and step the building down towards the low density district.
You can see in the image to the right, especially that stepping down effect reaching the scale of the neighboring buildings, while the taller part responds to the taller context along 108th Street.
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We also divide the massing into the multiple pieces to decrease the effect.
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In this section on the right especially, you can see the stepping down effect again.
The ground floor will be commercial and then the rest of the building will be residential.
We are not proposing a seller because this is a transit-oriented development.
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We didn't provide a parking that will further improve the building's storm management, stormwater management, and also
minimize the built environment around the ground floor, creating more greenery.
That's a buffer.
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You can see this in the greater context of massing if it's well within the urban context.
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This is the proximity of the subway station.
These two slides generally show how the building is configured.
On the ground floor, we have a commercial or community facility building, sorry, commercial use facing 108th Street.
Residential entrance is along the narrow street.
There are no cellar space here, so the ground floor houses the lobby and the mechanical spaces.
And towards our neighbors, we left the space as a green buffer zone because there are no parking spaces.
This is all permeable greenery area.
Also along both street frontages, we pushed the building back to create further green bands along the building.
On the typical floor plan, as you can see, there's a central core, which is actually exposed to the street, creating daylight into the corridors and improving the quality of life for the residents.
I think that will be it in a nutshell.