Chelsea Manhattan, New York 2002. The Owners requested a steel stair for connecting two existing apartments on the14th and 15th floors into one unit. The stairs needed to be designed taking into consideration the physical restriciton of the building's elevators and stairs. The pin connection of the stair stringer and mechanically attached handrails allowed for shop fabrication, and eliminated excessive welding in the field. Determining the stair opening in between two existing steel floor beams was important to reduce structural modification, cost and time limitations, all the while maintaining the most flexibility and usablitly of the rooms on each floor.
Project consultant: D. Bott.
Project team: P. Rosales, K. Kim. [Click to close image].