Elevated Assembly was designed for a noted writer/artist/garden designer couple with two young children, with a second apartment as rentable tenant space in Red Hook, Brooklyn. The three-story townhouse, built originally around 1900, was severely damaged when Superstorm Sandy flooded the basement and ground floor with eight and a half feet of water. A portion of the building collapsed, requiring a complete gut renovation. Working closely with the New York City housing recovery program ?BUILD IT BACK?, this project became the first in the city to elevate an existing attached masonry rowhouse so that the ground floor would be two feet above the high water line, the so-called Design Flood Elevation (DFE).

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Architects: TAKATINA

Location: Brooklyn, United States
Lead Architects: Takaaki Kawabata

Architect Of Record : PRIMATE LLC

Area: 218.0 m2

Project Year: 2018

Photographs: Mikiko Kikuyama

Structural Engineer: KEVIN CLESLUKOWSKI, PE

Mechanical Engineer: ENGINEERING SOLUTIONS, PLLC

Contractor: ALCO STORE DEVELOPMENT CORP.

© Mikiko Kikuyama

Text description provided by the architects. Elevated Assembly was designed for a noted writer/artist/garden designer couple with two young children, with a second apartment as rentable tenant space in Red Hook, Brooklyn. The three-story townhouse, built originally around 1900, was severely damaged whe...