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6 NEWS AWARDS


WilkinsonEyre win Metals in Construction Design Challenge 2020 for NYC refurb


WilkinsonEyre have received first prize of in the international Metals in Construction magazine 2020 Design Challenge, for a New York office refurb project which also included facade consultants Eckersley O’Callaghan and facade contractor Josef Gartner GmbH. The international ideas competition


invited design proposals to upgrade an ageing, energy-inefficient high-rise office building at 63 Madison Avenue to comply with NYC’s ‘Green New Deal goals and create a more desirable space for companies competing for highly skilled employees. The challenge addresses how to transform New York City’s high-rise office buildings, most of which are now more than a half a century old, but will still be standing in 2030, “a milestone year on the city’s roadmap to carbon neutrality,” said WilkinsonEyre. The brief was to use a cladding solution to half the building's energy consumption, bring daylight deeper into the building and give better access to the outside. The WilkinsonEyre scheme, called Second


Skin, employed the concept of an ‘adaptive net’ facade, “creating a habitable area within a highly efficient, simple, regular cladding system.” The ‘adaptive net’ allowed the firm to “respond to the specifics of the building’s locale; protect against seasonal environmental conditions; optimise views and introduce natural greening; all enhancing occupants’ wellness.” A system of external shading/reflector


devices was developed to provide shade, reduce glare, increasing the quality of daylighting and improving the usable area by 20 per cent, while preserving views out. The engineers demonstrated through thermal modelling that this concept (combined with an improvement in the efficiency of M&E equipment), “would offer a 50 per cent reduction in carbon emissions as well as offer an embodied carbon offset after only four years.” The site and building were chosen as it


was “typical of a large swathe of American real estate of a similar type and period,” meaning the winning solution has “great potential across the US,” said the architects.


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