The Hamilton
KLP worked on The Hamilton multi-use student housing and retail complex as Associate Architect and architectural consultant to the Architect of Record, MY Architecture. Our role was as the constructor and inter-disciplinary coordinator for architectural and engineering production within the BIM Revit model, a virtual 3-D construct of the project construction drawings. The documentation included the detailing of panelized wall construction. In this capacity we led the full drawing production effort to completion of construction documents. KLP acted in the same role with the same responsibilities for both Phase I and Phase II of the project, each a 3-year effort and each at a capacity of approximately 300-units.
The two housing projects were at 10 stories and 16 stories respectively, with the restrictive code construction type of 1A. Aside from the building’s inherent complexities as true high-rise construction, the circumstances of the site presented challenges requiring unusually high-level engineering solutions. For example, the site is in Center City Philadelphia, approximately 1/4 mile north of City Hall, and sits on top of the historical Baldwin Locomotive Works, 45 feet below grade.