The Mercury Store: Adaptive Reuse Project
The Mercury Store: Adaptive Reuse Project
- UrbanNext, December 20 2022
- 1000 words.
Energy and sustainability, Middle Density, Project, Urban Paradigms
Adaptive reuse, Carbon footprint, Construction, Cross Laminated Timber, Flexibility, Global Awareness, Low impact, Natural Lighting, New York, Power of materiality, Project, Spatiality, Sustainable Development, Texture, Timber, Transformation, USA, Waste management
Location: New York, USA
Area: 1,180 m2
Photography: Naho Kubota
Wood is the project’s dominant material: old longleaf pine timber is reconstituted, while new insertions are made from cross-laminated timber (CLT), an innovative product that has a negative carbon footprint compared to carbon-emitting materials like steel and concrete, therefore meeting CO Adaptive’s low-carbon design commitment. The project represents the first use of CLT in a fully commercial building in New York City. Brooklyn-based architectural practice CO Adaptive Architecture has transformed a 12,700SF former metal foundry, previously used as offices, into The Mercury Store, a new light-filled developmental space for theater artists. This adaptive reuse project updates and opens the original double A-frame, timber-and-brick building by repurposing removed elements as the basis for new architectural features.
2575-5374
Low impact design Carbon footprint Sustainable Development Natural Lighting Waste management
Energy and sustainability, Middle Density, Project, Urban Paradigms
Adaptive reuse, Carbon footprint, Construction, Cross Laminated Timber, Flexibility, Global Awareness, Low impact, Natural Lighting, New York, Power of materiality, Project, Spatiality, Sustainable Development, Texture, Timber, Transformation, USA, Waste management
Location: New York, USA
Area: 1,180 m2
Photography: Naho Kubota
Wood is the project’s dominant material: old longleaf pine timber is reconstituted, while new insertions are made from cross-laminated timber (CLT), an innovative product that has a negative carbon footprint compared to carbon-emitting materials like steel and concrete, therefore meeting CO Adaptive’s low-carbon design commitment. The project represents the first use of CLT in a fully commercial building in New York City. Brooklyn-based architectural practice CO Adaptive Architecture has transformed a 12,700SF former metal foundry, previously used as offices, into The Mercury Store, a new light-filled developmental space for theater artists. This adaptive reuse project updates and opens the original double A-frame, timber-and-brick building by repurposing removed elements as the basis for new architectural features.
2575-5374
Low impact design Carbon footprint Sustainable Development Natural Lighting Waste management