Red Hook Green / Garrison Architects by GreekArchitects.gr

Garrison Architects are completing designs for Red Hook Green, New York's first sustainable zero-energy, live/work building. A completion date projected is summer 2011. This unique structure is expected to become one of the most distinctive architectural additions to up-and-coming Red Hook section of Brooklyn.

As defined by the US Department of Energy, "a net zero-energy building (ZEB) is a residential or commercial building with greatly reduced energy needs through efficiency gains such that the balance of energy needs can be supplied with renewable technologies." Basically the ZEB concept asserts that buildings can meet all their energy needs from low-cost, locally available, nonpolluting, renewable sources such as solar or wind power.

This structure is approximately 4,000 sqf, and responds to a complex program, incorporating a studio/workshop, offices for a digital business, garages and an apartment, as well as outdoor green space. The form is inspired by shipping containers, an integral part of the Red Hook landscape that is largely defined by its active working port. The building is made up of modular units that are stacked and shifted to create a variety of terraces and angles designed to take advantage of the area's impressive harbor views.

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