LEGO HIGH-RISE

摘要

Inside a warehouse at the Brooklyn Navy Yard steel beams and flat metal sheeting rest atop a workbench. A diagram-which looks an awful lot like IKEA furniture assembly instructions-spells out where each beam and metal screw belongs. On it someone has carefully checked off each component, one by one. The metal may not look like much yet, but it's on its way to becoming part of the world's tallest modular residential high-rise. Workers will configure these beams into walls, which will become the scaffolding of rooms, which link together to form entire apartments. Then the "mods" are loaded onto a truck and driven 2.5 miles away, lifted by crane and snapped into position like Lincoln Logs at the Atlantic Yards complex being built next to the Barclays Center (home to the NBA's Brooklyn Nets). Time to load an apartment: 30 minutes. From the first cut of metal to placing a mod next to the arena, the entire process takes about 20 days. "And we'll get faster," says Susan Jenkins, vice president of Skanska, one of the companies behind the mods. "This is bringing the best of manufacturing and construction together."