Location
Confidential
Completion
2009
Client
Confidential
Square Footage
10,000 SF
Architect
Adjaye Associates
East Side Private Residence
Sciame was the Construction Manager responsible for the new 6 story building. The site was previously occupied by a 2 story carriage house. The new building is 7 floors total with 2 levels below grade and 5 above. The house is 10,000 SF and comprises of 6 bedrooms, 7 baths, 2 kitchens, an art gallery and a library along with small offices and dens. The roofs have green features such as long grasses and trees as well as two fountains with infinity edges. The 19th Century Carriage House facade was preserved on the front while everything behind is new construction.
The interior finishes include exposed concrete, drywall, stone, frosted glass, wood paneling, blackened steel, and bronze curtains. The exterior is completely exposed concrete with trapezoid shaped windows.
The structure of the building was constructed with over 1,000 yards of load-bearing concrete walls with steel floor beams. The architect requested that the exterior and many interior walls be exposed and dyed concrete. This resulted in a double wall design with a 2” gap between each interior and exterior wall for insulation. All concrete was dyed black; the dye was added into the concrete batch truck prior to pouring. The exterior and interior walls could not be poured at the same time. The exterior walls are rough while the interior concrete are smooth.
Starting the weekend with this #timelapse video!! Enjoy!
Project Spotlight:
The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art - New Academic Building
Sciame was responsible for the construction of this #LEED Platinum certified, new academic building for the Arts and Sciences at the Cooper Union.
Completed in 2009, it is essentially a vertical piazza contained within a semi-transparent, rectangular enclosure that articulates the classroom and laboratory spaces inside. The eight-story block is comprised of three intensified plazas, one above the other, that are connected by the 120’ #atrium space that contains the circulation #stairways. The stairways function dually as circulation and as oversized lanterns, each being clad on the exterior with illuminated translucent material.
Serviced by a skip-stop elevator system that has only two stops for eight floors, this building operates on a rhythm of spatial expansion and compression that will draw users to climb through it. The social legs of the building are in the grand stairs, but the heart is on the fourth and seventh-story sky lobbies that surround the staircase atrium. It is in these aerial piazzas that all typical institutional amenities are located: meeting rooms, social space, seminar rooms, wireless hubs, restrooms, phones. These are the key social spaces for students, faculty and visitors – the places, in fact, where much of #contemporary education actually takes place.
Location: 41 Cooper Square | Completion: 2009 | Size: 180,000 SF | Client: @thecooperunion | Architects: @morphosisarchitects | Gruzen Samton Architects | LEED Platinum | photography: @iwanbaan @frame_studios @albert_cheung
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