575 Fifth stands apart in Bklyn.Amie Gross Architects broke ground last month at a supportive affordable housing development in South Park Slope that will be one of the first green publicly-funded buildings in Brooklyn. The 30,000 s/f mixed-use development Mixed-use development refers to the practice of allowing more than one type of use in a building or set of buildings. In planning zone terms, this can mean some combination of residential, commercial, industrial, office, institutional, or other land uses. will provide studio apartments and social services social services Noun, pl welfare services provided by local authorities or a state agency for people with particular social needs social services npl → servicios mpl sociales for 48 individuals in need, including the elderly, the formerly homeless and young adults coming out of foster care. In addition, the building has been designed to achieve a LEED Gold rating and will be one of the first LEED-rated publicly-funded buildings in Brooklyn. The project is being developed by the Fifth Avenue Committee (FAC FAC - Functional Array Calculator. An APL-like language, but purely functional and lazy. It allows infinite arrays. ["FAC: A Functional APL Language", H.-C. Tu and A.J. Perlis, IEEE Trans Soft Eng 3(1):36-45 (Jan 1986)]. ), a not-for-profit developer that creates affordable housing in South Brooklyn South Brooklyn is a hybrid neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, encompassing areas of Carroll Gardens, Cobble Hill, Red Hook, Gowanus, Park Slope, and Boerum Hill. Thus it forms the western half of the territory of Brooklyn Community Board 6. . The organization was designated developer of the 9,600 sq.ft, former municipal parking lot at 575 Fifth Avenue (on the corner of 16th Street) from the New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. Department of Housing Preservation and Development in 2005. Its aim is to build housing for those with low incomes that will both benefit a neighborhood where affordable housing is disappearing due to gentrification gentrification, the rehabilitation and settlement of decaying urban areas by middle- and high-income people. Beginning in the 1970s and 80s, higher-income professionals, drawn by low-cost housing and easier access to downtown business areas, renovated deteriorating and displacement and help the City achieve its goal of creating 165,000 new affordable housing units. One of the main design criteria Noun 1. design criteria - criteria that designers should meet in designing some system or device; "the job specifications summarized the design criteria" criterion, standard - the ideal in terms of which something can be judged; "they live by the standards of their for Amie Gross Architects was to create a project that both responded to its surroundings and achieved a level of sustainability that will allow FAC to greatly reduce its operating costs and contribute to the good health of the building's residents. These green elements at times overlapped, most notably through the use of regionally manufactured materials including terracotta and brick for the building's facade. By sourcing indigenous materials the firm scored extra LEED points, and at the same ensured the building respected the local architectural vernacular. Street level retail units have been included in the project along the Fifth Avenue side to continue the row of neighboring storefronts, while the residential portion of the project is kept to the four floors above which steps down to three stories of apartments along the 16th Street frontage. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] |
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