![]() Union workers, specifically, and construction labor, in general, will suffer. Projects will require a different, and likely, smaller labor force to the benefit of owners and users. Labor is being taken off the job site and into the shop. New records for types of construction, complexity of design, and tighter time constraints will be achieved. Whether this attempt is successful or not, others will try, and try again. But there has not been anything of this scale with similar time constraints attempted. There has been prefabrication of building components for many years including fabricated housing, precast construction, and modular construction. Why can't they, and almost every other building component, be fabricated and assembled to the fullest offsite? We still set brick one-by-one and install individual sheets of drywall in the field. In Sky City One we see standardization of components and details, off-site construction of building components to the largest feasible sizes, and organized and well-synchronized fitting and assembly in the field never before seen nor attempted.Ĭonstruction can be one of the slowest industries. This is very different! It is a revolutionary approach. One might argue the standardization of building parts and systems in modern architecture was similar but, that belies a shallow understanding. ![]() It revolutionizes the process in a way hardly ever before seen in the building industry. ![]() ![]() Sottile misses an important point in the design and construction of this project. He has allowed us to publish his response to Mr. Stan Klemanowicz, an architect and planner in Los Angeles with Project Development Associates, reached out to tell us why the project is actually revolutionary. After the project was announced, we reached out to Christian Sottile, the Dean of the School of Building Arts at the Savannah College of Art and Design, who gave us his take on why the project is a terrible step for architecture and urban living.īut not everyone is skeptical about Sky City One. ![]()
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