JEWEL STREET
The project is located on a quiet street in Greenpoint, Brooklyn – just beyond a formerly industrial zone, now home to several television studios. The wood-framed row house began as a single-family home, built in the 1930’s as Brooklyn was rapidly expanding. Over the course of several generations, the house had been renovated into a rambling series of rooms, and split into a two-family residence. Our brief was deceptively simple: recombine the levels of the house, and bring light into the center of the 50-foot long plan.
The project comprises a series of spaces, interlinked by a light well, which brings sunlight down and into the deepest levels of the house, including the excavated cellar and basement levels. The house was designed
for a young family, such that each level provides a variety of scales and degrees of intimacy. From sweeping, double-height rooms that open unto a landscaped rear yard, to private alcoves washed with sunlight, to the new mezzanine space with custom oak shutters, the house offers a level of flexibility and spatial cohesion rare to the townhouse form.
The project was a collaboration between Overhead, their sister construction company Hatchet, and Leipzig- based interior designers Studio Oink. The group worked closely together – across timezones, across 4,000 miles, and across the outbreak of the global pandemic – and Hatchet’s team of specialized craftspeople and project managers made it seamless. The project began in 2019, with initial documentation by Zara Pfeifer, and with final documentation by Naho Kubota in 2021. We are thrilled to announce the culmination of this project, and its release for immediate publication: Jewel Street.
Construction: Hatchet (@hatchet.nyc)
Architecture: Overhead (@ovhd.nyc)
Interior Design: Studio Oink (@studiooink)
