Lot-Ek slices shipping-container stack to form Williamsburg home
New York studio Lot-Ek has built a family home in Brooklyn by stacking shipping containers, and cutting them at an angle to create terraces stepped down its back.
Carroll House was designed for a couple in the restaurant business with two young children and two cats. They wanted a unique home to fill a plot they found at the end of a street in Williamsburg, so asked shipping container specialists Lot-Ek to take on the challenge.
The Manhattan-based firm founded by Italian duo Ada Tolla and Giuseppe Lignano has experience building with the disused metal containers around the world, and already completed the overhaul of a carriage house in Brooklyn using the modular steel volumes.
However this was the studio's first opportunity to construct an entire house in the city.
"For New York, to be able to build a ground-up, single-family house is very special," said Tolla during the Van Alen Institute's fall party, which was held at the home last week. "We were excited to change the typical typology of the townhouse, forming a relationship between indoor and outdoor."
The house occupies the full footprint of a 25- by 100-foot site, the typical size for a Brooklyn lot. Less standard is its position at the end of the row, meaning both a short and long facade are fully exposed to the street.
"Generally, the townhouse only has the short side on the street," Tolla said. "So the idea of making a single-family home that had all the frontage was really ...
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