The Shoppes at Atlas Park - Kiosks

Additional Info

Award Winner : NRB Modular Solutions

Architectural Excellence : It was extremely important for the Shoppes at Atlas Park Mall to have the new four retail kiosks for the courtyard to be simple yet architecturally elegant to blend in seamlessly with the architecture of the adjacent Mall building. Using all structural steel tube for the wall and roof truss systems, along with pre-fabricated insulated steel wall panels, these floorless structures were completely pre-assembled at the plant, transported and placed in the center courtyard on concrete pads that were poured on site. The pre-finished high rib roofing from the factory combined with a site-installed copper cupola added a touch of architectural flair. The kiosks were all identical in their uncomplicated layout, allowing each retailer to further customize it to suit their own unique function, brand and image.

Cost Energy Effectiveness : Developers did not want the focal point of the Mall to be a construction site, so building the four kiosks off-site made perfect sense. Constructing these buildings on site would have taken several months, disrupting the main courtyard entrance to the mall. Instead, NRB’s units took only a couple of days to install, saving considerable costs in project management, mobilization and in general conditions on site.

Occupied Date : 5/23/2014

Production Start Date : 3/10/2014

Project Location City : Glendale

Project Location State Name : NY

Technical Innovation : To keep site work to a bare minimum and to keep the cost of craning to a minimum, the units were designed using steel with high recycled content to form all the structural elements of the roof and wall systems. Unlike the simplicity of the open footprint, the engineering and construction was more of a challenge in creating a clear span for the roof assembly that was comprised of four solid faces. NRB engineered a geometric tetrahedral truss design testing our best steel fabricators, but allowing the floor plan to remain completely open without any support columns to accommodate the varying retailer’s fixture layouts. Although completely made of small-scale tubular steel, the insulated panels, insulated and tinted glazed windows, along with rigid roof insulation provided sufficient thermal mass to make the buildings comfortable and efficient for summer and winter time use.

Total Square Feet : 375