An architecture practice focused on adaptive reuse — turning historic mill and office buildings into multifamily housing — alongside new multifamily and single-family residential design.
Mill floors, load-bearing masonry, generous window bays, structural bones built for a different century — these aren't constraints to hide. They're the starting geometry for the housing that goes in next.
Where there's no existing structure to answer to, we start from the site itself: orientation, context, and how a household actually wants to live. Adaptive reuse and new construction pull from the same discipline; they just start from different first questions.
We specialize in converting former industrial mills and outdated office buildings into multifamily residential communities — working with existing structure, envelope, and code constraints rather than against them.
When the site calls for it, we design ground-up — new multifamily buildings and single-family homes, built with the same attention to context, materiality, and long-term performance as our reuse work.
Existing conditions, zoning, and unit-yield studies for reuse sites; site and market fit studies for new construction.
Schematic and design development alongside the approvals — planning board, historic commission, or both — a project needs to move forward.
Permit-ready drawings and specifications, coordinated with structural, MEP, and civil consultants.
On-site observation, RFI and submittal review, and close coordination with the contractor through occupancy.
A mix of adaptive reuse conversions and ground-up residential work across Connecticut and New York — elevations shown here are conceptual, with full photography to follow.
Manetta Architecture + Design, PLLC is a residential-focused architecture practice built around two related disciplines: giving new life to buildings that have outlived their original use, and designing new housing that's built to do the same. Whether the project starts with a set of mill columns and a masonry shell or an empty lot, the approach is the same — understand what the building needs to do, and let that drive every decision after it.