ARCHITECTURAL ANALYSIS OF PRECEDENT

Façade Design - Robert A. M. Stern Townhouse, Park Ave., NYC
Project Statement:
You are being given
the documentation
(sans façade) for a
New York Townhouse
designed by Robert
A. M. Stern, newly
appointed Dean at
Yale University. You
are to design a
façade for the
townhouse which
takes into
consideration the
contextual cues and
plan and sectional
disposition of
spaces. You will
need to program the
first floor space and
relate your façade
design to that
program.
FAÇADE DESIGN
In this project the
program ask for
many of our design
moves to be related
some how to the
existing building. The
interior of the Park
Ave. townhouse was
very modern, so that
is were I began my
design. I incorporated
many elements from
the interior but
tweaked them to my
liking. The program
also gave the
designer the task of
deciding the use of
the first floor. I
thought that by
having a modern
façade I should keep
the use of the first
floor more formal. I
programmed the first
level to be an
architectural office.
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FAÇADE DESIGN