The architecture, design and planning firm RKTB Architects, P.C., has announced that its successful design for an affordable housing prototype is featured in a prestigious mayoral report, Designing New York: Quality Affordable Housing, published earlier this year. A collaboration of the New York City Public Design Commission, the Fine Arts Federation of New York, and the local chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIA), the book summarizes recent research and best practices in the region’s affordable housing, incorporating information from the city’s housing leaders in the public and private sectors.
The new book presents RKTB’s first Affordable Infill Prototype, located in the Prospect Gardens area of Brooklyn, N.Y., illustrating the application of the four-story, eight-unit concept created to address vacant sites in medium-density neighborhoods. The new building offers three one-bedroom, four two-bedroom and one three-bedroom apartments in a 21,680-square-foot building with ample window area and healthy cross-ventilation. Introduced more than a decade ago, the RKTB prototype has been applied in seven different locations with varied façade designs to suit their neighborhoods — totaling more than 400 new units of housing.