Richard Meier - The Bronx Developmental Center (7_36)
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That too was, as I remember, they were building different hospitals around the state and it was a state financed project and which I remember going up and they said, would you be interested? And I said, yes. But actually, initially that project was designed to be twice as big but because of budget restrictions, they cut it back, which was just as well.
That too was, as I remember, they were building different hospitals around the state and it
was a state finance project in which, I remember going up and they said, would you be interested
in SDS?
But actually, or initially that project was designed to be twice as big, but because of
budget restrictions they put it back, which is just as well.
It's huge.
Yeah.
It's interesting the way you approached from the industrial point of view.
Well it seemed to me, you know, that was the beginning of a whole investigation into prefabricated
parts in terms of building materials, because it seemed quite natural.
I mean, we're not going to build that out of brick.
We need a bigger brick.
And so the metal panels started to be sort of like a unitized way of building.
And we had developed, actually for a building not built, had it in the back for a long time,
at Fredonia, a physical education facility, a five by nine metal panel.
And outside was painted steel and inside was natural steel.
And it was an insulated panel.
Weighed a lot.
But there it is.
Just put it up, boom.
Got the whole cladding of the building.
You have the structure and then you have the skin.