Cascading balconies top this Brooklyn apartment block by American studio ODA, which is shown in a movie starring the design team throwing footballs, catching flowers and passing balloons between the terraces.
Photographer and filmmaker Miguel de Guzmán of Imagen Subliminal shot the film to showcase the "optimistic atmosphere of the life in the terraces", which ODA created on the upper corner of the 215 1st building.

As the movie shows, the cutaways allow for interaction between the residents that the New York-based studio hopes will foster a community in the building.
The setbacks also provide the residences on the upper floors with outdoor space and views of the Manhattan skyline.

"Standing higher than the neighbouring buildings permits sweeping views of Manhattan, both through expansive windows and from wide outdoor gardens, while still maintaining the feel of a small town community," said ODA founder Eran Chen. The architects  designed the massing of the 80,000-square-foot (7,7432 square metres) block in response to the prominent corner location in Brooklyn's Park Slope neighbourhood.
The balconies step backwards and upwards to face 1st Street ? a tree-lined stretch of brownstone residences ? while a closed facade is oriented to the busy 4th Avenue.

"With its formal enclosed face along 4th Avenue giving way to a highly fragmented facade along 1st street, the building also introduces an alternative for residential corner buil...