For Seaside 20th, a mixed-use growth, a modular constructing system with steel wall panels and ample daylighting met many challenge targets together with aesthetics, constructing envelope efficiency, sturdiness, building pace, and price.
Magnusson Structure and Planning PC’s design expresses the modular theme on the façade because the steel panels observe and spotlight the bays of the structural chassis system.
The primary flooring is constructed with typical building strategies, and homes industrial and neighborhood facility areas, meant to facilitate exercise to the road degree. The residential portion, flooring two by 10, is semi-modular, and combines a prefabricated, unitized steel panel system assembled onto a steel chassis structural system.
A modular constructing system comprised of particular person, factory-manufactured pods was used to construct the residential portion of the constructing. Moreover, pod exteriors are clad with MG McGrath Inc.’s volumetric modular facade system. The facade system is made up of unitized mega-panels panels with framing, gypsum sheathing, inflexible board insulation, steel wall panels, and glazed-in, steel-reinforced polymer home windows.
Tim Sauro, challenge supervisor at MG McGrath, says, “Every house module, or mod/pod, was inbuilt a managed store atmosphere and put in on web site. Our crew fabricated and assembled the modular facade mega-frames with our personal customized, self-sealing bulb gasket system. Every mega-panel was then shipped to web site and put in on the person mods by Actual Builders. The bulb gasket system on the perimeter of the facade ensures an air and watertight enclosure, and is the primary differentiator of modular steel facades from unitized steel facades.
“Our modular facade system mixed each steel and glass methods into one massive panel with a modular gasketing system that was later put in on every façade wall of the pods that make up the complicated. The ultimate modular mega-panels included aluminum framing with a gasket system across the perimeter.”
MG McGrath Inc. fabricated and put in 4,645 m2 (50,000 sf) Petersen Aluminum Corp.’s 22-gauge metal F-Seam (flush seam) and R-Seam (reveal seam) wall panels onto unitized mega-panels in three colours: Kynar Champagne, Sandstone, and Zinc.
The ten-story, 9,290 m2 (100,000 sf) constructing is within the Far Rockaway neighborhood. It consists of reasonably priced housing items, 520 m2 (5,600 sf) of ground-level retail area, and 316 m2 (3,400 sf) of neighborhood areas.
Basic contractor: Actual Builders Inc., owned by Radson Growth LLC, Nice Neck, N.Y., radsondevelopment.com
Architect: Magnusson Structure and Planning PC, New York Metropolis, www.maparchitects.com
Fabricator/installer: MG McGrath Inc., Maplewood, Minn., mgmcgrath.com
Metallic wall panels: Petersen Aluminum Corp., Elk Grove Village, Unwell., www.pac-clad.com
