165 Charles Street, New York, NY
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165 Charles Street Apartments
New York, NY
Glazing Subconsultant:
Enclos Corporation
Architect:
Richard Meier and Partners Architects, New York
165 Charles Street was included in the media coverage of the day as one of the new fashion buildings for a “21st-century city.” Expansive city views through floor-to-ceiling glazed walls were coming to be called "mediations on the curtain wall", an architectural idiom once reserved for corporate office towers or glass houses in the woods.
Wheaton & Sprague's responsibilities in the project included engineering of the complete exterior cladding of the building: the Curtainwall Systems, the Column Panel Cladding, Shear Wall Panel Cladding, and Balcony Terrace Panel Cladding: The Panel System was in 3/16” (0.188”) aluminum sheet, and encompassed column cladding and shear wall cladding. The curtainwall was a custom unitized system.
Wheaton & Sprague also engineered the Canopy Panel Cladding and Support Structure at the 1st floor level.
System detail and design concepts were provided by Enclos to Wheaton & Sprague for use in preparing the drawings and calculations.
The unique balcony feature on the building provided a 3-way intersection between the last apartment unit on each side. Each end unit apartment enclosed one end of the balcony.
Apart from the common crystalline syntax, the elevations of this residential block differ significantly from the plastic character of the Perry Street development, above all in the absence of inset balconies and in the surface treatment of the elevator/stair tower. The relative narrowness of the Charles Street site dictates a more contained approach.
Meier’s elegant 165 Charles Street includes a computer-controlled, layered shading system that the developer spent over $2.5 million to install.
