1. Glass Lofts
Mixed Use
Residential/Commercial
Construction Contract
$4,370,000 - $123/sq ft
Completion: July 2010

2. Program Concept
BUILDING - TOTAL AREA = 36,060 ’ Rather than expressing a view of architecture as
- 18 loft condominiums = 21,000 ’ absolute and finite, this architecture is made
- café = 4,000 ’ purposefully incomplete! While not incomplete in a
- artist Studios = 1,500 ’ literal or physical sense, the architecture is incomplete
- yoga studio = 1,020 ’ because it accepts change. The inevitability of time’s
- garages – 12 cars = 2,510 ’ effects and user modifications therefore become
- common space = 6,000 ’ essential forces that shape this architecture. Embracing
Total Area = 36,060 ’ the incomplete this architecture invites inter-activity,
CLIENT’S SITE OBJECTIVES engendering full embodied experiences of connection in
- A dynamic building with an enlivening presence to: its users: Connection, to people and connection to place,
physically, intellectually, and emotionally. Architecture’s
tendency to be perfect, i.e. complete, unravels through the
use of:
5 conditions of the incomplete.
Fragmentary – multiple: shapes, volumes, colors
TECHNICAL materials, carved corners
Unfinished – exposed: concrete block, metal deck
from the use of ”economy of means” which includes steel, ducts, pipes, conduits
The 5 conditions of the incomplete. Imperfect – purposefully out of plumb columns
off the shelf materials
SOCIAL
Impermanent – material patina - rusted steel
- Human interaction in the COMMONS is the
flexibility - occupant’s modifications
catalyst to complete the space in the user’s minds
Openness – multiple: thresholds inside and out,
and to define this as a place where:
overhead garage doors, shared spaces
races, and economic opportunities all coming
The Commons, the essence of the incomplete, is a place for
together can form a closer condominium
human action where:
community.
-Change is made manifest
- The predicable and the unexpected meet
shoppers, and neighbors, by sharing this place can
- Users interpret and complete the space.
develop their sense of communit
It is a place to go and a place to be,
Imperfect and incomplete, space in the Glass Lofts is fluid in its
being,waiting to be transformed by the movement of the people
who live in it and use it.

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