Weekly Jigsaw Puzzle

New York University John A. Paulson Center

With student and faculty housing atop spaces requiring long spans (think: regulation sporting and performing art facilities), New York University’s Paulson Center was designed with many column transfers--over 220, in fact!

A five-story podium stands at the center of these transfers, and most of its weight is, in turn, transferred on four floor-deep trusses. The fifth-floor transfer truss pictured here helps provide a column-free space for the performing arts venues and basketball courts below!

Head to aisc.org/puzzles to try your hand at assembling the fifth floor transfer truss! Curious about how the transfers in this IDEAS² Award-winning structure work? We’ll give you the scoop at aisc.org/nyu-paulson-center.