The proposed Greenpoint Hopital Senior Housing redevelopment is designed in response to the community's desire to retain site's existing 1930's Greenpoint Hospital building. To that end, a modern addition has been designed to integrate the existing building into the new project. The gut renovation of the existing building will combine with a dramatic 8-story addition for 103,000 square feet of space and 90 units of senior housing as well as a PACE senior center, a community facility and open space.
In this scheme, our first consideration was to address the site's existing building. We decided to re-use it by means of a gut restoration-renovation and two new additions: one new building attached on the west side and a new community facility filling the courtyard on the ground floor and providing a landscaped outdoor deck-roof garden at the 2nd Floor. The addition will have a new, modern language, emphasizing the dialogue between the old and the new, thus providing new life to the vacant structure.
In this scheme, our first consideration was to address the site's existing building. We decided to re-use it by means of a gut restoration-renovation and two new additions: one new building attached on the west side and a new community facility filling the courtyard on the ground floor and providing a landscaped outdoor deck-roof garden at the 2nd Floor. The addition will have a new, modern language, emphasizing the dialogue between the old and the new, thus providing new life to the vacant structure.
