Building (New York, EEUU)
This structure is located in Lower Manhattan, New York, where the Twin Towers stood.
The WTC HUB is one of the best examples of collaborative work between the technical office and external collaboration.
A great number of teams worked in this project of the renowned Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava. By using key levels and the concept of multi-user, the factory worked simultaneously with multiple computers from different parts of the world.
Technically, this work breaks with convention, with curved and elliptical contours and swivels on some of huge metal ribs. There were some stringent tolerances so we had to apply excesses in order counteract the effect of the welding shop.
The building is divided into two pavilions 150 meters high that will be extended with a glass cover and steel frame. The underground lobby, mezzanine, and platform levels will be mostly vertical columns giving a sense of openness and movement.
Another of the peculiarities of this project is the variety of materials used, the progressive variation on the size of key elements to parallel alignments, and their corresponding pre-camber that we had to divert from the starting plans.
This project allowed us to adapt both metric and imperial systems, as different North American standards, the OSHA.