A degree of freedom provided structural analysis for the Turtle Dome Glass canopy.

For those who attended the AIA seminar Serena Chen and I presented on 11/29/10 & 12/05/10, Here are some additional links that may provide additional insight.

Recently completed egress stair at NYU Stern School of business.

We decided to utilize the perimeter member as a tension ring, thereby restraining the frame, causing the frame to act as an arch/dome rather than individual members acting as a beam.

Courtesy of the Architect's newspaper

1 .Design of new sub grade living spaces below rear yard.

2. Lowering of existing Cellar level

3. Removal and reconstruction of 1920's rear additions.

Construction scheduled to commence August 2010.

Manhattan Center Productions: Renovation of TV studio @ 8th Ave 42nd street ( New Yorker Hotel)

Hudson Valley Hospital: Retrofitting of interior spaces for new Central Sterile units and MRI suites

1820's Row House in West Village : Construction of sub grade living spaces.

All connections are by use of hickory wood pins, the pins would have been dried in a kiln, then hammered into the wood beams and posts. The hickory would draw moisture from the wood members, and swell, resulting in a tighter connection.

180 years later, looks better than new. The roof boards have been replaced, but the primary structural frame is all original.

Working with Andrew Burdick of Architects for Humanity on the potential to reuse some existing spaces in New York City Public schools as outdoor green studies/ class rooms.

For those who attended the AIA seminar Serena Chen and I presented on 11/29/10 & 12/05/10, Here are some additional links that may provide additional insight.

In particular, the store has a neat stair, a single center tube stringer, with steel plate cantilevering to create the treads.

Woo Hoo!!!

Further congratulations are in order for Aaron Onur Uras, who also passed. We sat the exam together in October 2009.