West 48th St NYC

2:30PM [TuTh] – Semmler, Patricia (D075)
2:30PM [TuTh] – Aptekar, Alexander (D076)
6:00PM [TuTh] – Aptekar, Alexander (E078)

This is a conversion project, currently in New York City has vacant office space and record lack of housing. In this project we will convert this office wood frame office building into a wood frame housing project.

There are two variants of this project, one with the existing column system and one with additional columns. On the  classes the Miro board you can the class has been divided into two subgroups “Solid-Sawn”  or “Engineered”.  “Solid-Sawn” needs more support than “Engineered”.  The “Solid-Sawn” group will utilize the plans with additional columns. The engineered group will utilize the plans with the existing columns. Please check to see which variant you are assigned.

1) existing column system (Engineered)

and

2) additional columns (Solid-Sawn)