Architects discuss approach to affordable housing units.On Thursday, January 22, Marvin H. Meltzer, AIA AIA - Application Integration Architecture , and David Mandl, AIA, will discuss the approach their firm has taken in the successful creation of more than 3,500 market-rate and affordable housing units in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. . The program will include slides of relevant housing examples and insights into the myriad of regulatory challenges involved in new construction, adaptive reuse Adaptive reuse is the process of adapting old structures for new purposes. When the original use of a structure changes or is no longer required, as with older buildings from the industrial revolution, architects have the opportunity to change the primary function of the , rehabilitation, and landmark preservation. Project Managers Dan Heyden, AIA, and Yu Inamoto, AIA, will also join the discussion. Currently, the firm has more than 30 projects underway including a mixed-use affordable housing development in Harlem, a series of market-rate loft complexes in the East Village and Chelsea, and two mixed-use projects in the Fort Greene and Hoyt-Schermerhorn neighborhoods of Brooklyn. This is the first of a series of presentations by firms on the practice of housing design. The series is modeled on a format initiated in 1997 by AIANY President Robert Geddes, FALA, which featured talks by SOM and Tod Williams Billie Tsien & Associates on the practice of architecture. The Meltzer/Mandl program (CES Lus 1.5; HSW HSW How Stuff Works (information website) HSW How Stuff Works (educational website) HSW Health, Safety and Welfare (OSHA) HSW Had Sex With 1.5) will be held at the Center for Architecture from 5:30-7:30pm. Admission: $ I 0/members; $15/non-members; students/free. RSVP (ReSerVation Protocol) A communications protocol that signals a router to reserve bandwidth for real time transmission. RSVP is designed to clear a path for audio and video traffic, eliminating annoying skips and hesitations. with your name and date of event to: rsvp@aiany.org. |
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