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    SIDEWALK CAFE

     

    New York, NY

    Passive Design Features

    Completed in 1992

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    Gramercy Park is home to the only private park in New York City.

     

    Commissioned to design an enclosed sidewalk café for a restaurant in Manhattan’s historic Gramercy Park neighborhood, APT first studied the pedestrian  traffic pattern and approach to the venue. These findings resulted in a one-of-a-kind geometric form for the new addition.

     

    The new light steel and glass structure is juxtaposed to the building at a slight angle, minimizing the impact on the public street and following the natural pedestrian approach.

    The vertical support structure is rhythmic, and a wave of sun shading that spikes along the glass roof acts as a passive feature, providing a strategy for solar regulation that minimizes the need for artificial climate control.

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    Selected Publications

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    Controspazio - Chiarezza e semplicita’: lo studio Pagnamenta e Torriani a New York - Cristina Finucci - 1998