Glass Ramps/ Glass Wall: Deviations from the Normative: Alfred Lerner Hall, Columbia University
Bernard Tschumi, Hugh Dutton, Jesse Reiser
2004
Architectural Association Publications
ISBN 1902902009
Bernard Tschumi, Hugh Dutton, Jesse Reiser
2004
Architectural Association Publications
ISBN 1902902009
Tschumi's Alfred Lerner Hall is a turbulent mixture of the conventional and the innovative. Its opaque, masonry-clad wings respond to the traditional materials and massing of the Columbia University campus, while its transparently clad middle develops as a spectacular multitiered system of glass ramps. Designed in collaboration with a team of engineers, including Hugh Dutton, the glass ramps and the glass wall are intersupporting. Together they form a central hub of circulation, an event space that registers the dilation and contraction of structural and social flows. more
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