OLIN STUDIO
Many architects and planners have
claimed that historic properties in urban locations are impossible to retrofit
using universal design principles. The innovative team at Olin disagrees.
“Olin has worked on many historic
properties and has retrofitted them with paths and plazas that slope less than
5 percent, or with ramps that look like they were original to the design,”
McGlade says.
“An example of the latter is the ramps we designed for Bryant
Park in New York City, which connect the upper dinning terrace to the mid-level
walkways under the trees and at the lowest level lawn area.
The ramps were
blended into the original ornamental stonework with granite balustrades that
are copied from those elsewhere in the park, but modified for the sloping
ground plane of the ramps.”
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