架构师提供的文本描述。梅塞德斯豪斯(MercedesHouse)位于曼哈顿中城的西边，它占据了城市街区的一半以上，共有130万平方英尺的商业和住宅项目。该建筑整合了基地的多种商业用途，并提供27层以上的住房。这座基础建筑将包括一个55，000平方英尺的汽车展厅，位于第11大道对面，服务楼层低于标准层275，000平方英尺，一个3.7万平方英尺的社区使用和零售空间，一个较小的零售空间，一个2.8万平方英尺的健身俱乐部和200个停车位。

Text description provided by the architects. Located at the Western edge of Midtown Manhattan, the Mercedes House mixed-use development occupies more than half of a city block, comprising a total of 1.3 million square feet of commercial and residential programs. The building integrates multiple commercial uses at the base and provides 27 floors of housing above. The base building will include a 55,000 square-foot auto showroom fronting 11th Avenue with 275,000 square feet of service floors below grade, a 37,000 square foot space for community use and retail, a smaller retail space, a 28,000 square foot health club and 200 parking spaces.

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亚历山大·塞韦林(Alexander Severin)

居住形式共创造了865个单元(695个出租单元和170个公寓单元)，其中包括20%的包含性住房。整个项目的集结从德维特克林顿公园(DeWittclinton Park)向上倾斜，从第11大道的86英尺开始，在街区中间上升到328英尺。这一高度转换成功地协调了两个非常不同的城市尺度：位于第11大道以西的公园的平面，水平的一个，以及位于场地东侧的无窗电话交换塔的垂直一个。确保大多数公寓的光线和空气安全，双负荷走廊以独特的方向曼哈顿电网斜移，从而减少了与邻近建筑物相邻的建筑物的质量。每一层楼都从下面一层往上走，可以畅通无阻地看到公园和哈德逊河，并在每一层提供私人屋顶露台和绿色屋顶。不同的街道墙壁和内部外观的处理，参考了历史的法院空间的纽约市住房。街道墙壁面对一个银色穿孔雨幕材料，而内部正面是由一个混合幕墙组成。

The residential form creates a total of 865 units (695 rental units and 170 condo units), including 20 percent inclusionary housing. The overall massing of the project slopes up and away from De Witt Clinton Park, starting at 86 feet along 11th Avenue and climbing up to 328 feet at the middle of the block. This height transition successfully reconciles two very dissimilar urban scales: The flat, horizontal one of the park located to the West of 11th Avenue and the vertical one of the windowless telephone switching tower to the East of the site. Securing light and air for a great majority of apartments, the double-loaded corridor shifts diagonally across the site in a unique orientation to the Manhattan grid, reducing the building’s mass adjacent to the neighboring buildings. Each floor steps up from the one below, allowing for unobstructed views to the park and the Hudson River and providing private roof terraces with green roofs on every floor. A varied treatment of street walls and interior facades makes reference to the historic court spaces of New York City housing. The street walls are faced with a silver perforated rain screen material, while the interior facades are comprised of a hybrid curtain wall.

 © Alexander Severin

亚历山大·塞韦林(Alexander Severin)

该项目的设计利用了现场的通车条件和壮观的景观，德维特克林顿公园和哈德逊河。为了使项目的质量远离公园和狭窄的小巷，该设计为曼哈顿提供了一个完全独特的设计方案。这座建筑的镜像结构介绍了两个庭院的创建，南方有一个日光浴的游泳池花园，北方有一个有阴影的活动庭院。

The design of the project capitalizes on the site’s through-block condition and its spectacular views to De Witt Clinton Park and the Hudson River. In an attempt to keep the project’s mass both away from the park and off of the narrow side streets, the design presents a totally unique design resolution for Manhattan. The building’s mirrored structure introduces the creation of two courtyards, a sunbathed pool garden to the South and a shaded activities court to the North.

 © Alexander Severin

亚历山大·塞韦林(Alexander Severin)