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07 May 2010
The home, currently under construction is a structure consisting of two connecting 3500 square foot residences situated on the Hudson River.
Local zoning limitations for residential square footage necessitated the unique design approach. The demands created by minimal land area and bedrock available for construction led to the design of large cantilevered floor areas in order to establish the first and subsequent levels above the foundation and maximize the views of the river and New York skyline.
The walls are proportioned to a fourteen inch thickness and floors of seven inch thick one way slabs are supported on deep heavily reinforced concrete girders. The lowest level was designed as a reinforced concrete matt more than three feet in thickness to resist the overturning effects terraces and floors.
A great many unique elements were employed in the concrete mix including additions of super plasticizer and pigmented color along with micro silica, rust inhibitor and accelerating admixtures to cope with the consequences of a brackish water environment. Accordingly, all reinforcing bars placed in ®the over six hundred cubic yards of concrete were epoxy coated.
