New York Korea Center

About This Project

New York Korea Center
New York, NY
Market: Commercial
Project Scope: Fire Modeling Services

The Korean Cultural Center New York has expanded with the construction of a cultural hub called the New York Korea Center (NYKC) built in the heart of Manhattan’s Koreatown. The result of an international competition in 2009 issued by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism of the Republic of Korea, the eight-story, 36,500-square-foot building has a five-story-high glass box atrium. The NYKC has three distinct zones that include a 200-seat auditorium, public spaces, semi-public cultural lecture rooms, a library, and administrative offices. TERPconsulting reviewed the original atrium smoke control system design to ensure compliance with the necessary codes and standards. Additionally, TERPconsulting prepared a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) model utilizing Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS) and provided a Smoke Control Rational Analysis. The goal of the analysis was to maintain compliance with the applicable codes and standards without adjusting the original design of the system.

Photography and renderings courtesy of Korean Cultural Center New York