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Cuatro principales firmas prevén la estación Penn y el Madison Square Garden
El Municipal Art Society de New York, un importante catalizador en el en el discurso sobre la creación de un más habitable New York a través de una inteligente la planificación urbana y diseño, ha desafiado a cuatro principales empresas para re-inventar la estación Penn y del Madison Square Garden. Diller, diller, scofidio + renfro, SOM, SHoP architects y h3 hardy collaboration architecture todas presentan un abanico de posibilidades para posiblemente el mayor centro de tránsito en el hemisferio occidental, centrándose en las formas en que el diseño de estrategias y la forma integrada podría volver a conceptualizar el acceso de tránsito y soluciones que postulan al nexo de congestión peatonal.
El reto es oportuno mientras que la estación Penn recibe más de medio millón de personas cada día, es un momento particularmente exigente para pensar sobre el desbloqueo de las posibilidades del nodo ocupado. El permiso especial del Madison Square garden ha expirado, lo que permite a la ciudad para pensar en la integración de la estación citrica, pero estrecha y sombría, más fácilmente en el tejido urbano. Desde que la estación original fue construida en la década de 1960 la cantidad de pasajeros al día casi se ha triplicado, y sin embargo, el Madison Square Garden, que se sienta encima de la estación, está a punto de pedir a la ciudad para renovar su funcionamiento y permitir “a perpetuidad” ensillar a las generaciones futuras y con insuficientes centro de tránsito importante que limita el crecimiento de la zona en su conjunto.
Además de reformular la estación Penn como en toda la ciudad símbolo del diseño, la ingeniería y la cultura urbana, la breve también pidió una narrativa clara para el más cerca centro que incorpora interesantes posibilidades para los 16 acres frente al mar hudson sitio lado oeste. Las cuatro empresas, elegidas por su vasta experiencia en temas urbanos complejos, presentó sus soluciones atractivas en TimesCenter seguido de una mesa redonda moderada por el New York Times y el crítico de arquitectura Michael Kimmelman.
El Consistorio Municipal ne New York va a votar sobre el destino de la extensión de permiso de Madison Square Garden el 19 de junio. El presidente de la sociedad del evento crítico, de arte municipal habló con franqueza acerca de la oportunidad que está en juego:
Un sitio que debe ser un ancla para el desarrollo económico y el midtown de Hudson Yards es más bien un serio desafío a la competitividad global y la salud económica de la ciudad de Nueva York, una nueva estación Penn y un nuevo estadio será un motor económico para la ciudad de Nueva York – La creación de miles de puestos de trabajo, abriendo miles de millones de dólares en inversiones privadas, por lo que millones de desplazamientos al año más rápido y más cómodo, y reafirman el sentido de que New York puede asumir grandes proyectos y conseguir que se hagan.
SOM:
La mega empresa propuso trasladar el Madison Square Garden en un sitio adyacente, mientras fantásticamente ampliar la estación Penn en forma eficiente, un verde vórtice de circulación. Deportivos espacio vegetados cuatro veces el tamaño del parque Bryant, más oficinas que el Rockefeller Center y los focos más culturales que el Lincoln Center, el embudo vestido de verde de la circulación está organizado por un gran centro de venta de entradas transparente y cuatro torres de uso mixto en las esquinas en gran medida amplian la huella de la estación:
“Con todas estas redes se cruzan en la estación Penn, su hall central se convertiría en la puerta de acceso icónica para casi todos los visitantes de todo el mundo.”
h3 hardy collaboration architecture:
La empresa fue centrada en las personas, tratando de mover el complejo de la costa oeste y dar prioridad a una amplia gama de acceso, es decir, en forma de una red de senderos para bicicletas, un parque público de tres hectáreas y un jardín en la azotea de una hectárea. Haciendo que el carril de un “modo de elección” fue un punto de enfoque. El Madison Square Garden sería totalmente movido de sitio.
’24 Millones de pies cuadrados de desarrollo privado cerca de Penn Station y hasta la séptima avenida sirve como motor económico para la mejora y un revivido distrito comercial de clase mundial. “
Diller, Scofidio + Renfro:
La empresa detrás de la línea de alta, se propone replantear conceptualmente la idea de esperar y aumentar el valor de ‘tiempo de inactividad’ haciendo que la estación de un espacio lleno de luz y en capas atractivo. ‘Penn 3.0 “busca ser un destino, no solo gateway consolidada, mediante una programación 24 horas y alojamiento de los residentes y transeúntes por igual:
’No sólo una puerta de entrada a Nueva York, la estación será un destino en sí mismo una forma rápida, los programas orientados tránsito con capas de menor destinos en un gradiente de velocidad de desaceleración de pistas a la azotea “.
SHoP architects:
El hall de la estación Penn será un desmaterializada, espacio de planta abierta que se caracteriza por la intuición. para ayudar a sufragar la inversión pública, la empresa ha sugerido un nivel conmovedor de síntesis cívica y arquitectónico, proponiendo extender el highline para que la nueva estación está conectada a un fuera de las instalaciones del Madison Square Garden. Un parque pasarela frontal serviría como una característica civil de los grandes.
Vishaan Chakrabarti, arquitecto director de la tienda, dijo a The New York Times sobre el objetivo del diseño:
”¿Cuándo es la última vez que escuchó a alguien decir:” vamos a cumplir con una copa en la estación Penn? la gente dice que alrededor del gran centro todo el tiempo. “
The Timber Tower Research Project: Re-imagining the Skyscraper
SOM has come up with a structural system for skyscrapers that uses mass timber as the main structural material and minimizes the embodied carbon footprint of the building. The firm believes that their proposal is technically feasible from the standpoint of structural engineering, architecture, interior layouts, and building services and would revolutionize the traditional skyscraper as we know it.
Read on to learn more about The Timber Tower Research Project.
“Tall buildings pose a unique challenge to the sustainability movement because they offer both positive and negative environmental impacts. Positive impacts include reducing urban sprawl, promoting alternative transportation and allowing efficient energy use on a district scale. These benefits come at the cost of emitting more carbon dioxide to produce the materials and to construct the building. A tall building’s embodied carbon footprint is significantly higher relative to low-rise buildings on a per square foot basis. This is because the structure is usually responsible for the majority of the building’s embodied carbon footprint, and tall buildings require far more structure to support their height. Structural systems that minimize embodied carbon for tall buildings allow the positive environmental aspects of tall buildings to be more pronounced.” – SOM
Although structural engineers currently have four major materials to choose from when designing buildings – steel, concrete, masonry and wood – tall buildings use steel or concrete almost exclusively because most building codes require non-combustible materials for buildings higher than four stories and because steel and concrete have higher material strengths than masonry or wood.
But designers such as Michael Green of Michael Green Architecture have recently become interested in a lesser known quality of wood – that it is a carbon sink, the physical result of photosynthesis. Combined with the knowledge that wood takes significantly less energy to produce than steel or concrete, the idea of a tall wooden structure can be very attractive.
SOM‘s Timber Tower Research Project applied its mainly wooden structure to a prototypical building based on an existing concrete benchmark for comparison. This benchmark building is the Dewitt-Chestnut Apartments; a 395 foot tall, 42 story building in Chicago designed by SOM and constructed in 1966. SOM’s solution to the tall wooden building problem is the “Concrete Jointed Timber Frame,” which relies on mass timber for main structural elements and supplementary reinforced concrete only at the highly stressed locations of the structure: the connecting joints.
The structural system proposed by SOM is the Concrete Jointed Timber Frame. It consists of solid mass timber products for the primary members such as the floor panels, columns and shear walls, which are connected with steel reinforcing through concrete joints.
The Gravity Framing System would utilize 8″ thick timber floor panels which would span between the shear wall core at the center of the building and columns at the perimeter of the building. The ends of the floor panels would be restrained from rotation by the concrete joints and vertical structure, allowing the floor system to be more economical.
Lastly, the Lateral Load Resisting System would utilize solid timber shear walls which would be coupled with reinforced concrete link beams, designed to efficiently resist net uplift due to wind overturning.
Playing to the strengths of both materials, the resulting structure could potentially compete with reinforced concrete and steel while reducing the carbon footprint by 60 – 75%. Although SOM believes the system to be feasible, additional research and physical testing would be necessary to verify the performance of the system, especially in cases of fire.
References: SOM (1, 2, 3)
The Timber Tower Research Project: Re-imagining the Skyscraper originally appeared on ArchDaily, the most visited architecture website on 06 Jun 2013.
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This Week On Rendering Redux: The Giant Lipstick And Bad Photoshop
Rendering Redux is a weekly column where we (humorously) uncover the secrets behind architectural image making so you don’t have to! While for the past couple of weeks of Rendering Redux we’ve covered specific projects, this week we thought we would mix it up by collecting some of the best (and funniest) renderings to have …Continue Reading
SHoP, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, And Others Reveal New Plans For New York Penn Station Site
Ever since the 1963 demolition of McKim, Mead and White’s Penn Station, the site has been the center of controversy. This same demolition, after all, is responsible for igniting the historic preservation movement, especially as the building was replaced by one that is, by most accounts, unremarkable or even depressing. Now that neighboring Madison Square …Continue Reading
SOM Unveils Singapore’s Tallest Tower
Images by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill SOM’s newly unveiled tower for Singapore’s Tanjong Pagar district will be the island nation’s tallest once completed. At just over 950 feet high, the tower is a small fry compared to other world contenders. Nonetheless, it will rise above Singapore’s already iconic Surfboard Building and the giant pink trees …Continue Reading
SOM Designs Singapore’s Tallest Tower
SOM has designed what will be Singapore’s tallest tower upon its completion in 2016. Positioned as a premier quality business and lifestyle hub, the 290-meter, 1.7-million-gross-square-foot Tanjong Pagar Centre will provide a mix of uses, comprising office, residential, retail and hospitality, in the historic Tanjong Pagar central business district. The development will be a significant contribution to the evolving skyline of Singapore and will become a landmark destination, serving as a gateway to the future waterfront city.
The centerpiece of the project will be a re-designed Tanjong Pagar City Park to create unique public spaces that provide activity and open space to visitors. In line with the Singapore’s Urban Redevelopment Authority’s mission to create lively and attractive public places, protected and useful outdoor gathering spaces and sustainable urban environments, Tanjong Pagar Centre will set the standard for sustainable, livable development in Singapore for generations to come.
Located on the eastern half of the site, the mixed-use office and residential tower will feature Grade-A office space with luxury residential units above.
The free-standing mid-rise tower to the west will accommodate the luxury business hotel and its amenities, including restaurants, a conference centre, gym and pool deck overlooking the Tanjong Pagar City Park.
The six-story podium will provide multiple levels of car parking, retail, restaurants, and entertainment, as well as the hotel, office, and residential lobby and amenities level. A large public component includes a “city room” which will feature public art and outdoor performance areas, ground-level retail, and an underground pedestrian network that will connect to the existing MRT station.
Project Description via SOM
SOM Designs Singapore's Tallest Tower originally appeared on ArchDaily, the most visited architecture website on 13 May 2013.
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One World Trade Center Tops Out
Image: Gary He / Insider Images via EPA One World Trade Center was topped out on Friday with the addition of the final piece of its spire. At the overtly symbolic height of 1,776 feet high, give or take a few feet, the tower is now the highest in the US and third tallest in …Continue Reading