PROJECT VERTICAL Bronx, NY access · with a large courtyard. Designed in 1970, it is set in the...
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Photos by Vertical Access Project overview Vertical Access was retained by Urbahn Architects to assist with a New York City Façade Inspection Safety Program (FISP) inspection and to perform a hands-on investigation to inform the preparation of repair recommendations and documents. Building description e main building of Harry S Truman High School is a 7-story, steel-frame building that is rectangular in plan with a large courtyard. Designed in 1970, it is set in the middle of an assemblage of buildings that also includes two middle schools, two elementary schools, and a gymnasium that serve the Co-op City neighborhood of the Bronx. e complex was designed by Moore & Hutchins, the partnership of John C. B. Moore and Robert S. Hutchins, which individually and collectively specialized in the design of academic buildings at both the primary and secondary levels. Harry S Truman High School and the surrounding buildings are distinguished by large pre-cast panels at the spandrels, with brick corners and piers and horizontal bands of dark-colored aluminum windows. Scope of work • Performed hands-on investigation of the exterior masonry of four masonry facades from the fifth to seventh floors inclusive. • Documented representative and notable existing conditions with digital photographs hyperlinked to annotated condition drawings. Building owner New York City School Construction Authority In collaboration with Urbahn Architects, PLLC Harry S Truman High School Bronx, NY access VERTICAL PROJECT PROFILE
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Project overview
Vertical Access was retained by Urbahn Architects to assist with a New York City Façade Inspection Safety Program (FISP) inspection and to perform a hands-on investigation to inform the preparation of repair recommendations and documents.
Building description
The main building of Harry S Truman High School is a 7-story, steel-frame building that is rectangular in plan with a large courtyard. Designed in 1970, it is set in the middle of an assemblage of buildings that also includes two middle schools, two elementary schools, and a gymnasium that serve the Co-op City neighborhood of the Bronx. The complex was designed by Moore & Hutchins, the partnership of John C. B. Moore and Robert S. Hutchins, which individually and collectively specialized in the design of academic buildings at both the primary and secondary levels. Harry S Truman High School and the surrounding
buildings are distinguished by large pre-cast panels at the spandrels, with brick corners and piers and horizontal bands of dark-colored aluminum windows.
Scope of work
•Performedhands-oninvestigationoftheexteriormasonryof four masonry facades from the fifth to seventh floors inclusive.
•Documentedrepresentativeandnotableexistingconditions with digital photographs hyperlinked to annotated condition drawings.
Building owner
New York City School Construction Authority
In collaboration with
Urbahn Architects, PLLC
Harry S Truman High School Bronx, NY access
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