About Us
MESH has designed a wide range of projects, large and small, residential and commercial.
We are always exploring new materials and applications. In New York, where many projects are renovations, we integrate contemporary materials and techniques into old structures without erasing the older construction. Perfectly integrating the past and present. MESH has established a reputation for using new, translucent materials to create luminous spaces.
Along with innovative design goes a dedication to a client-oriented process. Successful projects are always the result of a fruitful collaboration of the client's desires and the architect's ingenuity. Attention to our clients needs and desires, is always the catalyst for the design process. This leads to innovative solutions that satisfy the body, spirtit, and budget while pleasing the eye.
We see homes as an extension of the urban lifestyle, a setting for activities and events ranging from solitary meditation to family breakfast to work meetings. We develop new residential concepts and view the connected areas of the home as a stimulating environment for personal and interpersonal exploration and growth.
Featured Project - Atrium Home
ATRIUM HOUSE
March 9, 2011 – Brooklyn, NY – This house for a bachelor began as a one-story workshop that occupied the entire 22’x100’ site. The pre-existing condition of a built-full lot meant that, according to NYC zoning regulations, if we don’t enlarge the house, we need not comply with typical residential requirements such as a 30’ rear yard. Thus we got to build something very difficult for New York: an atrium house, built around a courtyard.
The house gives maximum exposure to the outdoor space and a sense of intimate privacy. In some neighborhoods this would spoil an array of adjacent, verdant backyards. But this is a mixed-use block. The neighbor to the east is a built-full recording studio, for example.
Both the living room and the bedroom suite (bedroom and bath) open completely to the courtyard through folding glass doors. There are also outdoor spaces at both ends of the second floor. A catwalk through the double-height living room connects these outdoor spaces.
The primary circulation path extends the full depth of the house, along the east side wall. This axis helps this side wall become a Special Wall. Steve, the owner, is a creative individual — a musician, actor, storyteller, and artist — and the Special Wall becomes an elongated surface for creative projects. The wall is clad in pine boards that were sawn from the house’s original joists. Embedded in the wall are steel channel struts. There are dozens of fittings that bolt to these struts, and pretty much anything may be mounted on them. Running parallel to the struts are electrical Plugmolds that ensure that you can install an electrical device on the wall anywhere. Lighting along this wall is from fixtures made of plumbing pipe, designed by the architect.
The experience of moving through the house provides varied conditions, varied views. There are narrow spaces like the entry and first flight of stairs. The main space, on the other hand, is open and airy.
The stair is cantilevered from the wall dividing the two flights, so it starts in a compressed space and ends suspended above the double-height living room.
The front facade is modest and unassuming. It is basic stucco, with GreenScreen wire mesh to support vines that will soon cover it. The house is heated by a radiant concrete floor.
See the NY Magazine article here.
Featured Project - Vertical Loft
Vertical Loft House
Brooklyn 2006
3200 sf
Owners who wanted a loft bought a Victorian-style Park Slope house. The challenge was to open the house allowing for an abundance of light and space without losing the unique character that was there. MESH accomplished this with two related gestures: First, open the parlor floor as a large open space for family living. Then open a zone through the middle of the house that ascends to a large skylight bringing light into the core, In this zone, finishes are translucent or stripped down to the original structure. The pipe lights were designed and fabricated by MESH.
