Architects: Sanders Pace Architecture Project: The Cohen Loft Project Team: Brandon F. Pace, AIA LEED AP (Principal-in-Charge) / Michael A. Davis, Assoc. AIA LEED AP / Daniel A. Jones, Assoc. AIA Location: Nashville, Tennessee, United States Size: 3055 Square Feet Photographs: David Massengill

建筑师：Sanders佩斯建筑项目：Cohen Loft项目组：Brandon F.Pace，AIA LEED AP(主要负责人)/Michael A.Davis，Assoc。AIA LEED AP/Daniel A.Jones，Assoc。AIA地点：美国田纳西州纳什维尔：3055平方英尺照片：David Massengill

Description by architect: The architect was contacted to provide design services completing the unfinished adaptive reuse of the historic 19th century Cohen Building in downtown Nashville. A shell renovation begun a decade earlier by another group had gutted the building and inserted two fire stairs and an elevator shaft before work stalled. With egress requirements unfulfilled and inadequate fire protection and other services installed, the top two floors of this three level building sat vacant for more than a decade.

建筑师描述：与建筑师联系，提供设计服务，完成了位于纳什维尔市中心的19世纪科恩大厦的未完成的适应性再利用。另一群人在十年前开始的一次炮弹翻新，摧毁了大楼，在工作停止之前插入了两个消防楼梯和一个电梯竖井。由于出口要求未得到满足，消防和其他服务不足，这座三层楼的前两层空置了十多年。

Further complicating matters was the construction of The Viridian, a 31 story residential tower built in a zero lot line condition to the east of the building. This tower not only dwarfed the tiny three level Cohen Building but also eliminated any opportunity to use existing openings along this elevation.

更复杂的事情是维立甸大厦的建造，这是一座31层高的住宅楼，建于建筑物东侧的零号地段。这座塔不仅使小小的三层科恩大楼相形见绌，而且也消除了沿着这一高地使用现有开口的任何机会。

Working within the constraints of these existing conditions, a design option was developed which wrapped the existing fire stairs with the primary programs of living and master suite. This approach allowed for natural light to enter these zones and allowed for views north and south from these primary zones. Secondary program is contained between the stairs with bedrooms fulfilling egress requirements through existing historic windows facing an adjacent alley. Transition spaces between primary and secondary zones occur along the existing fire stairs, their walls thickened to conceal zones of storage in both locations.

在现有条件的约束下，开发了一种设计方案，将现有的消防楼梯与生活和主套房的主要程序包在一起。这种方法允许自然光进入这些区域，并允许从这些主要区域看到南北景观。二级程序包含在楼梯之间，卧室通过现有的面向相邻小巷的历史窗户满足出口要求。主区和次区之间的过渡空间发生在现有的消防楼梯上，它们的墙壁加厚以隐藏两个地点的储存区。

The primary materials palette of pickled white oak floors and gloss white casework contrasts the existing brick while buffer reveals or “gaskets” create relief to absorb as much as 6” of wall slope between the floors of this historic building.

主要材料调色板的酸洗白橡木地板和光泽白色的个案工作对比现有的砖，而缓冲器揭示或“垫片”创造浮雕吸收高达6“的墙壁斜率之间的这座历史建筑。