Cheatham Street Flats
Additional Info
Award Winner : Synergy Modular
Architectural Excellence : Cheatham Street Flats presented a unique challenge and opportunity in providing an effective and beautiful housing solution to the university community of San Marcos Texas. Local code allowed for a high-density development on a one-acre site which also required city-mandated public improvements along the street fronts. Our strategy was at once simple and complex: organize the varied spaces around a central, active courtyard that allowed views for every single unit, whether looking out or looking in, which was achieved by interweaving modules with the more fluid geometries of the circulation and public spaces. Besides the obvious benefits of modular delivery, from a design standpoint, modular design also affords us the ability to outwardly express or play down the modularity of the structure. Once stacked, the modular frames seamlessly received the palette of terra cotta tiles, metal panels, stucco, and wood soffits with coordinated expressions of steel fabricated elements.
Cost Energy Effectiveness : There were two factors that had a major impact on reducing time and cost. First, the Diversakore steel frame combined with a Comslab concrete pan decking system that made up the garage and podium levels. This system was completed in less time from what would be expected on a conventional pre-cast or CIP concrete structure through its stay-in-place formwork and reduces material requirements through a t-shaped steel beam design and metal pan flooring system that is fused together through a monolithic poured concrete slab. This system meets a two-hour fire rating without the requirement of an additional application. Second, The factory installed synthetic stucco system was another contributing factor as this eliminated the need for onsite scaffolding and stucco application. Lastly, the project benefited from factory-built steel modular elevator shafts and towers, which were installed at the same time as the modules. This provide immediate accessibility to each floor as it was being set.
Design Firm Name : Forge Craft Architecture & Design
Engineering Firm Name : Structures
Installer Firm Name : Hays Modular
Occupied Date : 4/7/2020
Owner Firm Name : Z Modular
Production Start Date : 10/10/2018
Project Location City : San Marcos
Project Location State Name : Texas
Technical Innovation : The Cheatham Street Flats project utilized a number of offsite factory-built components in the building. In addition to the apartment modules, the internal metal stair towers, elevator shafts and courtyard grand staircase were all produced and provided by the modular factory. With these components being completed offsite, it allowed for the delivery and installation of the stairs and elevator shafts at the same time as the modules were being set on each floor. This was a major contributing factor to completing this project on a timeline that was much shorter than a typical site-built project.
Total Square Feet : 198946