heintges - building envelope and curtain wall consultants

This seven-story mixed-use building and student center, designed to replace the college’s two-story McIntosh Center, provides the compact Barnard campus with an illuminated focal point. The unitized façade, composed of glass and metal panels of varying translucency, wraps the wedge-shaped building. Stepped, double-height glazing on the public-facing façade creates a continuous atrium, drawing light into the core of the building and connecting Lehman Lawn to the green rooftop. Protruding glass ramps on the campus-facing façade expose circulation and provide peripheral views of Lehman Lawn to the south and Millbank Hall to the north.

A skeptical board of trustees partial to conventional brick and mortar was persuaded by an all-glass design that enunciates the material character of glass as “masonry,” through layers of tinted ceramic frit and acid-etched glass, thus maintaining the aesthetic of the primarily brick campus. Varying modules of opaque spandrel glass and custom ceramic frit creates a rhythm that reflects the various needs of the mixed-use programming.

Heintges collaborated with the architect to develop with equal emphasis the functional and aesthetic aspects of the project, working toward the realization of a subtle and unique materiality in a cost-effective, all-glass enclosure. The project has been featured in Architectural Record, Metropolis, The New York Times, and in several hardback publications.

New mixed-use academic building, with an all-glass façade that mimics the masonry aesthetic of the rest of Barnard's primarily brick campus.

MATERIALS

• Low-e Glass
• Insulating Glass Units
• Custom Ceramic Frit
• Acid-etched Glass
• Aluminum Panels

TECHNOLOGIES

• Skylight
• Unitized Curtain Wall
• Structural Silicone Glazing
• Thermally Broken Enclosure System