Multifamily Design Innovations: Innovative Structural Systems
Sponsored by TAMLYN
Learning Objectives:
- Describe design strategies for opening multifamily projects to the community while still maintaining safety and security.
- Explain strategies for manipulating a building’s section to achieve higher densities within existing height restrictions.
- Define innovative structural systems that can open up the floor plates of multifamily housing projects.
- Discuss design approaches for breaking down the mass and impact of large, horizontal housing projects.
Credits:
This test is no longer available for credit
Open House: A luxury apartment building with restaurants and shops on the ground floor invites the neighbors to drop over and relax.
No Place Like Home: A distinctive new building fosters community and honors the local mood.
Trainspotting: An enormous mixed-use building energizes a site along a major rail artery, contributing to an urban transformation.
Magic Mountain: A development overlooking Salzburg connects residents to nature and carves out a public space in an abandoned quarry.
A West Side Story: A market-rate residential tower in Manhattan makes the most of its unusual structural system.
Frame for Living: A Seattle firm adheres to Miesian history in renovating a building in the master's adopted hometown.
Originally published in March 2017