Detail View: Archivision Base to Module 9: Metal Shutter Houses
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Preferred Title:
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Metal Shutter Houses
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Image View:
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Canopy over entrance, echoing shutters
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Creator:
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Shigeru Ban (Japanese architect, born 1957)
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Location:
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site: New York, New York, United States
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Location Note:
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524 W. 19th Street; West of High Line near Chelsea Piers
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GPS:
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+40.745625-74.007375
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Date:
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2008-2011 (creation)
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Cultural Context:
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American
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Style Period:
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Twenty-first century
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Work Type 1:
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condominium (built work)
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Work Type 2:
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apartment house
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Classification:
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architecture
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Material:
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steel; glass; perforated metal screens
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Technique:
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construction (assembling)
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Measurements:
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120 ft (height, building)
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Description:
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In the High Line area in lower Chelsea (south side of West 19th Street, between 10th and 11th Avenues). The condominium building has 9 units (8 duplex ""houses"") and is an 11-story structure, including a ground floor art gallery (retail space). The building incorporates a layered façade with a unique shutter system. The shutters are motorized screens which hang on the outside of the balcony spaces and can be open or shut for privacy. Although they are of lighter and semi-transparent material (perforated metal) they evoke similar motorized industrial steel doors. Shigeru Ban Architects + Dean Maltz Architect (Source: ArchDaily; http://www.archdaily.com/)
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Collection:
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Archivision Addition Module Eight
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Identifier:
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1A1-BSHI-SH-A15
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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