Facade That Blurs Floor Plates

Aurecon provided structural civil facade and fire engineering services for the swanston square apartment tower a tall building that blurs the lines between artistic expression and functionality.

Facade that blurs floor plates.

Greenwich was a bit sleepier then says farman farma now 52. Innovative thinking and 3d modelling helped the team optimise engineering solutions including those needed for the highly. Today generic storefronts with aluminum extrusions and glass that is 5 feet x 10 feet are sometimes considered banal. Levels of natural light diminish with distance from the façade and 18m is the plan depth facade to façade or façade to atrium above which natural light is considered to be too low.

Grey variegated poly weave wraps foam cushioned hardwood frame from tall slim headboard to low profile side rails and footboard in one streamlined sweep. The town a 30 mile drive northeast of manhattan was full of federal style homes edith wharton would have recognized such as the. The swanston square apartment tower is where art meets functionality. The transparent nature of the spaces in the ground floor allows unobstructed visual connections across its large floor plate and even the uninterrupted diagonal views we have planned the circulation inside the home through varied volumes scaling double height and triple height spans the house blurs the threshold between exteriors and interiors.

A filigree corten steel facade blurs the distinction between inside and. In effect the main floor beam stops at the glazing line and is supported off corten steel plates cantilevered from the facade. The floor beams are detailed with a thermal break at the glazing line as the facade structural frame is outside the building envelope. People want an apple cube.

Located on the ground floor a storefront wall is a non load bearing glazed wall that spans between the floor slab and the building structure above. The floor plates become pre eminent as the facade recedes from visibility where the programmatic complexity is overcompensated for by the visual illusion of the idea of a facade. Herzog de meuron s 1111 lincoln road miami beach florida usa 2005 2008 realisation. Large areas of glazing which extend from floor to ceiling in many office developments provide excellent views out of the space and good levels of natural light.

Clean box bed silhouette sleeps sophisticated in salt and pepper tweed. Sounds like you re working with a draftsman and not a true designer. Shop facade grey upholstered bed. Even on a flat piece of property.

You also do it by not designing one floor at a time and then sticking a facade on the outside.