Facades+ New York Metropolis returns on April 4 and 5. This yr’s program might be led by Henning Larsen’s New York workplace. Co-chairing the occasion are Daniel Baumann, design director; Sebastian Hofmeister, senior affiliate; and Kritika Kharbanda, the agency’s lead sustainability specialist.
Getting Sustainability Carried out In New York Metropolis
Facades+ New York will kick off with a session led by Rohit T. Aggarwala, New York Metropolis’s Chief Local weather Officer, who will present an replace on the Adams administration’s local weather initiatives together with the most recent iteration of PlaNYC in addition to the implementation of Native Regulation 97—NYC’s constructing emissions ordinance—which went into impact firstly of 2024.
Linkages: Designing Excessive-Efficiency Facades for Life Sciences
Leaders of the challenge group for One Milestone, an in-development analysis campus situated in Boston, will take the stage to share the high-level coordination and sophisticated problem-solving required for such a big challenge. The panel consists of Rustom Cowasjee, managing director of Tishman Speyer; Bryan Scheib, senior challenge chief at Studio Gang; Marc Simmons, founding principal at Entrance; and Sebastian Hofmeister, senior affiliate at Henning Larsen. The challenge contains two discrete buildings designed by Studio Gang and Henning Larsen. Panelists will focus on the technical design of the facade techniques in addition to aesthetic issues—how you can create two distinctive, but complementary constructions.
From the Excessive Line to the Skyline: Design and Execution of 66 Roofs at The Spiral
On the finish of final yr, Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) celebrated the completion of The Spiral in Manhattan’s new Hudson Yards neighborhood, the workplace’s first supertall construction. The constructing can also be novel in its method to zoning setbacks—which have outlined Manhattan’s skyline since 1916’s landmark zoning decision. As a substitute of adopting the usual wedding ceremony cake method—abruptly stepping again the envelope at every peak requirement—The Spiral achieves zoning necessities progressively, implementing a sequence of climbing terraces on every ground of the tower.
Dominyka Voelkle, affiliate at BIG and challenge architect for The Spiral, will focus on the waterproofing and cladding of the tower’s enclosure, in addition to the complicated structural problem of connecting every ground to an outside terrace.
Accounting for Embodied Carbon: Previous, Current, & Future
The occasion’s keynote might be delivered by Stacy Smedley, government director of Constructing Transparency and co-creator of the Embodied Carbon in Development Calculator (EC3). Stacy will focus on the evolution of embodied carbon monitoring and coverage, how companies can share data and work collectively, and a glance towards the way forward for materials transparency in constructing provide chains.
Domino Sugar: The Transformation of the Williamsburg Skyline
The adaptive reuse of Williamsburg’s iconic Domino Sugar Manufacturing unit—probably the most distinguished initiatives in Brooklyn—was accomplished final yr by architects at Follow for Structure and Urbanism (PAU). In a novel method to reuse, PAU determined to nestle a curtain wall 10 toes throughout the shell of the previous manufacturing facility. On this configuration, the unique masonry of the construction assumes a second life as a shading equipment for the internal envelope. Ruchika Modi, principal at PAU, might be joined by Pat Arnett, principal at Silman, to share the complicated structural and building gymnastics required to attain the design.
Celebrating Sustainable Skylines: The Artwork and Science of Facade Innovation
When designing a facade system designers and engineers have an obligation to stability sustainability with the opposite main capabilities of the enclosure: particularly, aesthetics considerations, and its perform as a barrier. This roundtable session brings collectively leaders from throughout the AEC trade to debate collaboration between professions and the way forward for excessive efficiency techniques. Panelists embody co-chair Kritika Kharbanda; Dominick Fortuna, mechanical specialist at Turner Development; Vishwadeep Deo, vice chairman at Thornton Tomasetti; Samuel Berrigan, facade engineer at Arup; and Daryll Mendoza, preconstruction supervisor at Clark Pacific.
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