the fluidity of the architectural form and interior spaces of the building.
The project contains 426 rental apartments over 60 floors, reaching 786 feet in height. The comprehensive amenities at the podium as well as at the rooftop are divided into passive and active recreation. The stepped terraces provide a variety of outdoor spaces at different levels, creating relationships and a verticality of green spaces among the levels of the building. The horizontality of the podium, intersecting with the language of formal shifts established in the residential tower, generates a series of cascading layers. This provides for extended sight-lines and diagonal movement, resulting in an experience of unexpected connections for building occupants.
The facade design presents a singular graphic with various local deviations that address the project issues, while emphasizing the shifts in building form, visibly expressing the complex programmatic, contextual and structural challenges faced at the macro level. The facade experience at the micro level is composed of a collection of details that give scale and proportion while animating the façade. These structured, horizontally and vertically defined modules, compliment the diagonal movement of the façade’s form. The standard module of the façade is a double layer skin, designed with an outer solid (screen) layer with a narrow offset from an inner glass layer. Six module types shift the building skin’s two layers both in parallel and independently, creating additional opportunities for occupiable space and differentiating living experiences throughout the building.
The screen elements are deployed in a repetitive, staggered pattern to project vertical and horizontal continuity, producing the reading of a skin enveloping the building form. The regularity, put in contrast to the local variations, privileges the reading of the massing over the skin.
The façade’s organic aesthetic is backed by sustainable features. The overhangs become a multi-functional element as an aesthetic feature and balcony space, as well as a passive shading component. The curtain wall embraces high performance low-e coated insulated glass that varies its reflectivity according to cardinal orientation: the south incorporates highly reflective glass to reduce solar gain, and the north, clear floor-to-ceiling glass that increases exposure to natural light and desired views. The low-e glass insulates the structure, minimizing heat transfer along with the thermal breaks that are incorporated throughout the façade.
The resulting building presents a harmonious aesthetic paired with green technologies, pushing the boundaries of multi-residential design. This animated structure reflects the vitality of the surrounding neighborhood, while embracing the contemporary urban living experience.
Credits
CittàNew York
ClienteAlgin Management
Data Completamento10/2018
Superficie Lorda (mq)43507
ArchitettiCetraRuddy Architecture DPC
Design TeamBalmori Associates Inc. (Landscape & Urban Design); John Cetra, Eugene Flotteron, Kevin Lee, Ulises Peinado (Architecture); Nancy Ruddy, Ximena Rodriguez (Interior Design)
ConsulentiCosentini Associates, Buro Happold, OneLux, Shen Milsom & Wilke LLC, The Clarient Group, Langan Engineering
FotografiMOSO Studio, CetraRuddy Architecture DPC
Curriculum studio / partecipanteCetraRuddy is an international award-winning architecture, planning and interior design firm based in New York City. For over 29 years, the firm has been led with a guiding principle that architecture and design must engage its context while enriching the human spirit. The firm’s portfolio of distinguished work, defined by analytic problem solving, contextual sensitivity, crafted details and innovative use of materials, reflect an underlying commitment to the human experience at all scales and across typologies including multifamily housing, hospitality, education, cultural and commercial.
Founded by Principals John Cetra and Nancy J. Ruddy, the firm emphasizes a collaborative process, working together with clients and staff to apply a sophisticated understanding of programming, planning, technology and construction to each project, developing technically excellent and innovative designs and providing an unparalleled level of service.
http://cetraruddy.com/project/242-west-53rd
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