Multifamily Design Innovations: New Facade Design
Sponsored by TAMLYN
Learning Objectives:
- List the structural implications of nonconventional geometries for high-rise buildings.
- Identify a wide range of new facade design approaches being used in multifamily housing.
- Describe the advantages and the limitations of modular construction for low-rise multifamily housing.
- Discuss how one resident’s green roof can be another resident’s terrace in multifamily housing.
- Explain how you can live in a high-rise and still have your car right outside your door.
Credits:
1 AIA LU/Elective
This test is no longer available for credit
The height of Convenience: You can park your car right outside your apartment door in an Annabelle Selldorf–designed, 19-story tower
A 23-story, 130,000-square-foot condominium tower on the Hudson River, next to Frank Gehry's IAC building
A Shut-and-Open Case: Shigeru Ban transports his unique Japanese sensibility to a Chelsea condominium with High Line views
A 14-story, 39,200-square-foot condominium tower that extends above the High Line, an elevated public park built on a derelict railroad track that runs along Manhattan's West Side
A 12-story, 80,000-square-foot residential tower in Chelsea, with 47 units, a communal garden on the ground level, and a communal roof terrace
Making Waves in the Skyline: Frank Gehry drapes his first skyscraper in rippling stainless steel, bringing luxury living to lower Manhattan
A seven-story, 63,000-square-foot apartment building in the Brownsville neighborhood of Brooklyn
An affordable housing development with two-, three-, and four-story town houses (1,600, 2,400, and 3,200 square feet, respectively)
Absolute City Centre Residents begin to move into the first of MAD's two convention-busting apartment towers near Toronto
A 31-story, 1.3-million-square-foot, mixed-use development spanning more than half a city block between 11th and 10th avenues in Midtown Manhattan
Originally published in March 2017
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