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Manhattanville Subgrade
Columbia University, Civil Engineering Senior Design Final Project, Professor Christian Meyer. The first phase of Columbia University's new Manhattanville Campus is scheduled to be completed in the year 2015. Working in a team, we were tasked to independently design one of the main engineering school buildings subgrade. These drawings were produced in AutoCad.
Boundary
The red dotted line was our assigned building - the corner of 130th street and 12th avenue. All schematics were drafted in AutoCad.
Traffic and Utilities Reroute
During construction, utilities buried underground will have to be diverted to accommodate the subgrade of the building.
Section Cuts
To ensure that the car stacks in the garage would fit, we had to see how high the ceiling would be.
Truck Turning
Since space in the subgrade is limiting, it was necessary to calculate the turning radii of delivery trucks that would be coming in and out everyday of the labs. If it didn't work, we would have to totally rethink our design because the truck ramp would have to be moved. Fortunately, there was enough space for trucks to load and unload by code standards.
Car Stackers to Double Capacity
In order to ensure that all faculty and staff will have ensured parking as well as not allocate more space to the garage, we decided to use Car Stackers. This halved the footprint. The lane widths dictated by city codes are also adhered to in this case.
