Sereneco is a warm and relaxed neighborhood restaurant located on the ground floor of Greenpoint, Brooklyn’s historic Pencil Factory building. Designed shortly after the quarantine lockdown, the importance of our relationship with the outside world was playing heavily in our minds. We considered local architecture that prioritizes the relationship between architecture and the natural environment and Frank Lloyd Wright’s Usonian community immediately came to mind; through our research, we harnessed our design priorities: a fluid relationship between exterior and interior, use of natural materials and importance of light + texture.