This 3 story, 2 family townhouse in Brooklyn's Sunset Park neighborhood stood vacant for five years before being rescued by a couple living just down the block. The clients, a visual artist and a filmmaker were looking to bring the home back to life in a new minimal, modern and light-filed incarnation without erasing its past. JPDA's solution is a series of unabashedly modern architectural interventions that open up the interior spaces while leaving the historic texture in place.