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Slide Library
Slide Library
116th St, Manhattan, New York, NY, United States
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Other Projects by Marble Fairbanks
Slide Library
116th St, Manhattan, New York, NY, United States
Honor Award, New York City AIA ID Design Award, Honorable Mention American Architecture AwardThis project was completed both as a prototype research project to test computerized fabrication techniques, and to fulfil the immediate program needs of the client as the first phase of a longer-term master plan. The design consists of four walls defining the space of the slide library and lit by the skylight above. The east wall is made up of 435 sandwiched layers of 1? thick ultralight (lightweight mdf). Occasional viewing portals are formed by carved layers on opposite dies of the wall where two 1/2? thick glass panels are inserted. The middle of the east wall curves into the space to capture light in the hall outside from a skylight above. The edges of the glass panels refract and glow from natural light. The north, south and west walls are patterned with 1/4? perforated lines outlining the actual tooling paths for each of the layers of the east wall ? these lines are illuminated by the light of the skylight in the slide library. As part of the rigor to digitally draw, fabricate and manage tje entire project, every component of the design was milled regardless of its complexity to enable the walls to be assembled like furniture.
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