Architect Menzak presents revised Fort Hamilton Mews design and massing
Yuri Menzak presents the redesigned building: a six-story street wall with two building masses above, 30-foot setback from the northern lot line, 60-foot courtyard between buildings, and contextual materiality to reduce the perception of a 300-foot-long building.
Yeah, if we could go to the next slide, please.
Okay, so the number of comments that we have received from the neighborhood refer to the scale of it and the fact that the 9 and 11 story setbacks that would begin
would not fit within the neighborhood.
And as a result, we have tried to replicate a six-story line with our parapet and a setback on majority of the building and created a two-building type of setup above the six-story.
So the articulation of the street wall is within the five to eight feet for the 300 feet section of the frontage on the Fifth Avenue.
But above that, we basically have two buildings.
One on the left, which is a smaller version that provides the light and air to the northern portion of the building, providing a setback of 30 feet from the northern lot line.
And also providing a 60 feet court in between the buildings as well.
That articulation, I think, is...
up in terms of the presence of 300 feet long and 11 story building presence on the avenue and have made it in our opinion a bit pleasant more pleasant
perception of the mass and the volumes also we
Introduced number of setbacks above the minimum base height of 60 feet.
In R7G, 60 feet is the minimum required street wall height.
And above that, we went up to the 95 feet, and we stepped back the rest of the building in order to comply with the 15 and 10 feet required setbacks from the street lines.