CC Residence
CC Residence is a renovation that examines how affordable materials and simple yet inventive spatial strategies can shape functional, flexible homes. Designed for a couple and their child within a limited budget, the project serves as a model for how this methodology might extend to other households—young families, couples, or working professionals—negotiating the demands of everyday life.
Working within tight financial constraints, the design first strategizes its own scope. Rather than distributing a modest budget evenly, it concentrates resources where they yield the greatest spatial transformation and leaves sound existing conditions undisturbed: flooring, bathrooms, and plumbing are retained, and the material palette is held to two elements—stained birch plywood and stainless-steel sheets.
On the upper floor, an open-plan living area and a communal dining table accommodate shifting modes of play, work, and gathering, while an integrated home office supports remote work. A retractable, ceiling-mounted projector screen sustains the open plan, defining a space for film or focus on demand without a permanent partition. On the lower level, a grid of Ryukyu tatami establishes the organizing module for the plan, governing room dimensions, the placement of doors, and the logic of the carpentry. The same tatami also introduces warmth and intimacy underfoot for the bedrooms.
More than circulation, the staircase acts as a central connector, threading sleep, work, and daily life into one continuous sequence. Within the stairwell, natural and artificial light interplay, reinforcing the sense of spatial continuity.
CC Residence demonstrates how thoughtful, budget-conscious design can produce adaptable, comfortable environments for urban living.
Working within tight financial constraints, the design first strategizes its own scope. Rather than distributing a modest budget evenly, it concentrates resources where they yield the greatest spatial transformation and leaves sound existing conditions undisturbed: flooring, bathrooms, and plumbing are retained, and the material palette is held to two elements—stained birch plywood and stainless-steel sheets.
On the upper floor, an open-plan living area and a communal dining table accommodate shifting modes of play, work, and gathering, while an integrated home office supports remote work. A retractable, ceiling-mounted projector screen sustains the open plan, defining a space for film or focus on demand without a permanent partition. On the lower level, a grid of Ryukyu tatami establishes the organizing module for the plan, governing room dimensions, the placement of doors, and the logic of the carpentry. The same tatami also introduces warmth and intimacy underfoot for the bedrooms.
More than circulation, the staircase acts as a central connector, threading sleep, work, and daily life into one continuous sequence. Within the stairwell, natural and artificial light interplay, reinforcing the sense of spatial continuity.
CC Residence demonstrates how thoughtful, budget-conscious design can produce adaptable, comfortable environments for urban living.
Location
Brooklyn, NY, US
Category
Residential, Interior
Status
Design Phase, 2023
Completion, 2024
Brooklyn, NY, US
Category
Residential, Interior
Status
Design Phase, 2023
Completion, 2024
