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Marco Polo Park
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Marco Polo Park 2 residential towers over public/commercial piazza, with integrated public park The client’s goal in securing this very large, prestigious site on the Limassol cornice near the ancient Greek/Phoenician/Roman ruins of Amathus was very simple; to build the most luxurious fully-serviced apartment development on the island. And to build as high as possible within the Planners constraints, to secure the best possible sea views. The two residential high-rise blocks are formally each a pair of individual towers within a main tower, with sky gardens and panoramic lifts running through the central pairing point. The entire masterplan and building development is very organic in form, moulding into and reacting to the site’s valley and central watercourse, slotting an organic podium into the hillside to form a base for the towers, and creating a natural, meandering public park with two pavilions set within it. Beneath the podium are the large, luxurious entry atria for the apartments and also shops and a restaurant serving the large public piazza fronting on to the street. A bridge extends organically from the podium to connect to the servicing 5* hotel services and beach. The site is of great archaelogical interest, meaning some existing burial ceremony buildings and tombs at the front of the site needed to be integrated into the project. The towers cloverleaf plan-forms gives each apartment privacy on their balcony from their neighbours. they twist as they rise into the air, and fragment at the top penthouses creating spaces of varying height and differing character at the top of the buildings, with the floor plates appearing to float into the air. Top penthouses have large private roof deck pools at the top of the building.
Project Details Appointment: 2015 Budget: circa â‚Ź70 Million Total Area inc Basements: circa 60,000m2 Status 2016: Successful Planning Preliminary-View Decision Full Planning Application submitted August 2016
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Marco Polo Park
The three main challenges of the site were it’s sloping nature (1:10 upward), it’s bisecting, registered watercourse/stream and the archaelogy on the street frontage. Early decisions were to leave the back of the site as a public park and create a large public piazza to the street; in order to offset and balance going as tall with the residential towers as we felt would work with the context. And that a podium would manage the dialogue between front piazza and rear park, and form the plinth for the towers. It’s knuckle would accept the watercourse; that aperture allowing a point of movement through one public space to the other. The first massing model showed a large tower set back and a smaller one at the corner frontage, to manage over-shadowing behind and mass to the streetscape. But we also wanted to put the majority of the accommodation as near to the sea as possible, and have a tall element at the corner, as a natural pivot. As such, for the second massing model we split the towers into pairs, raking the massing toward the centre of the site and creating transparency between the tower-pairs, and smoothed their edges; all to reduce their ‘weight’. The final design driver was to introduce a cloverleaf plan, to allow balconies to have privacy between apartments, and to let the tower-pairs twist to acknowledge the site’s valley and create a dynamic in the streetscape, indicate the public passage between the towers at the podium and enlarge the gap between towers for views-through from behind the site.
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Marco Polo Park
In cutting the massing model to form the floor plates the towers appeared too squat and anchored to the podium. Thus we allowed the upper floors to ‘float upward’ and oscillate in plan, releasing them from their ‘tethers’, creating extra-height floors for the penthouses and creating a certain lightness in the buildings, reducing their visual mass. We then worked up the apartments themselves, creating waterpool pavilions at the apex of each tower for the prime penthouses and installing planters to the curved glass fronted balconies. Along with the urban design concept, and strategy of varied and extensive public space to offset height in the apartment blocks, the diagrams to the right were two of the strategic drawings shown to the Plannners to describe how the buildings would have reduced mass from the areas to the rear of the site - through permeability and how the offset tower blocks and cloverleaf plan would create high quality living spaces for the residents of the development. The strategy was well-received and we were given a positive report to allow us to proceed to full plans submission.
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FRAGMENTATION & UN-TETHERING
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630
3452
5011
600
VRV UNIT
5160
louvre dr
HEX UNIT
500 1902.5
sky gardens lvl 4,7,10
500
plant
3194
400
1695
softener M.PANEL
HEX UNIT
2300
6500
7271
800
tank
softener
cleaning access
2000
5105
louvre dr
HEX UNIT
2500
650
400
250
TYPE B FLOORS
100
plant
BUFFER
HWC 250[lt]
3200 600
1200
3651
dining
1000
sky gardens at lvl 10/13 below
2B Duplex Upper Floor
3600 300
planter wall at lvl 18 reduces in steps of 10cm per floor below
3650
tank
M.PANEL
VRV UNIT
900
300
cleaning access
5400
kitchen
900 600
3300
3430
3430
louvres
common lobby
st
slab overhangs architectural feature/cleaning access
250
A2
400
400
5021
1850
100
950
1644
800
2120
plant
BUFFER
HWC 250[lt]
3
7500 200 1695
LVL 5-9 STR.
2565
2315
8680
250
8680
1540
1400
4020
living 2000
1800
2
3494
void
guest wc 3150
1700
600
J
HWC 250[lt] BUFFER
VRV UNIT tank
M.PANEL
void
250
2215
HWC 250[lt] BUFFER
VRV UNIT
200
Fire AOV w'dow
wet riser
open mesh
500 1902.5
cloaks
2400
455
J
overhang - arch. feat./clean access
Note: Lvl 10 Reduced Structure, as Lvl 11
1600
3200
3530
5011
louvres
2400
2x 8 pers panoramic glazed lifts
550
3400
900
7380
2B+ / 2B / 1B+ / 3B Floors 2-10 (8 shown)
255
M.PANEL
250
1700
bedroom3
1000
400
7350
400
250
200
800
100
4721
living
2140
3400
8380
800
2215
open mesh
stair: 280mm overhanging treads
ensuite2
1
6100
2100
1410
1050
kitchen
1000
dining
100
7571
8380
5560
disabled refuge
900
1000
guest wc
4030
495 800
stair: 280mm overhanging treads
400
ensuite3
1644
200
400
ensuite2
cleaning access
100
1000
600100
1900
tank
BUFFER HEX UNIT
400
900
500
3580
900
3470
ensuite1 2360
softener
HEX UNIT
M.PANEL
2500 400 2400
2030
4100
3794
3330
5105
common lobby
J
overhang - arch. feat./clean access
Note: Lvl 10 Reduced Structure, as Lvl 11 200
void Fire AOV w'dow
3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10
250
6
7500
250[lt]
plant
455
2500 400
3651
1340
100 430
200 HWC
open louvres
2400
1000
softener
910 235
400
2x 8 pers panoramic glazed lifts
LEVELS (TYPE A FLOORS)
750
700 1400
1900
VRV UNIT
plant
tank
650 1350
400
1340
1600
1000 300
750
12/15
2700
255
M.PANEL
wet riser
guest wc
200
2140
900
2000
100
250
250 900
planter wall at lvl 18 - reduces in steps of 10cm per floor below
600
bedroom1
500
5871
5
3750
BUFFER HWC 250[lt]
200
1130
bedroom2 4000
planter wall at lvl 03 - reduces in steps of 10cm per floor above
LEVELS
700
1050
1200
5011
3970
R
600
slab overhangs architectural feature/cleaning access
2300
1130
7380
3650
250
2B+ / 2B / 1B+ / 3B Floors 2-10 (8 shown)
tank
HEX UNIT
stair: 280mm overhanging treads
planter wall at lvl 18 reduces in steps of 10cm per floor below
250
2
8380
800
A FLOOR LVL 10-13 TYPE STR. A 800 495
VRV UNIT
2500
1700
2000
HEX UNIT
M.PANEL
2770
300
softener
BUFFER
5105
plant
1410
1050
2150
800 900
slab overhangs architectural feature/cleaning access
800
8180
700
750
2350
4
3750
5560
open mesh
3650
800
2830
overhang - arch. feat./clean access
slab overhangs - architectural feature/cleaning access 400
3530
A2
400
800
1900
2565
200 1695
400
900
1350
4530
850
500
1
8380
5560
250[lt]
2200
300
P
250
8680
cleaning access
200
B3 / +B1 / B2 / +B2 )nwohs 8( 01-2 sroolF
11 lvL s1 a ,erutc8380 urtS decu2deR 01 7500 lvL :etoN3 2215
2020
living
8330
N
700
A FLOOR TYPE C 250
3080
250
300
1000
3651
3330
600
2200
3200
green areas = planters
3748
planter wall at lvl 18 - reduces in steps of 10cm per floor below
5021
600
softener
910 235 200HWC
open louvres
ensuite2 900
guest wc
plant
tank
650 1350
3580
430
1250
VRV UNIT
3651
250
2580
ensuite1
7900
100
100
100
1644
ensuite1
1000
guest wc
2140
3200
5860
1000
1400
2300
02
2360
3B: 142.0m²
4050
M
2700
600 100
bedroom1
K
4000
bedroom1
5021
600
thick dotted line illustrates glass balustrading, with locked glass service gates to cleaning service areas
900
ensuite
4150
600 430
200
LEVEL (TYPE A1 FLOOR)
cloaks 2200
900
200
1130
bedroom2
900
3494
3530
2100
860
250
1000
2215
1600
bedroom2 400
630
3748
cleaning access
5011
2400
1195 630
700 600
700
ensuite1
500
wet riser
1000 1000
250
8171
630
2500
2500
4000
6100
700
700
944
800
1130
cleaning access
3494
4900
250
700
6
7500
495 800
BUFFER HWC 250[lt]
200
slab overhangs - architectural feature/cleaning access
1540
800
500
3452
3400
2700
2300
1000
500
250
slab overhangs architectural feature/cleaning access
1595
13 person 1100x2100
1000
3400
3430
250 400
1425
cleaning access
100
950
400
penthouse
3200
1200
3651
2120
1070
8180
500
planter wall at lvl 03 - reduces in steps of 10cm per floor above
100
4020
living 2000
795
Fire AOV w'dows
est 1400x2400 2455 est 1600kg
2090
2500
100
1700
1512.5
fire/ service 500
2B 96.0m²
3400
2000
140
stair: 280mm overhanging treads
planting at lvl 01
100
300
2830
7700
3970 4630
850
1800
8855
A1
3200 600
5021
ensuite2 600
250
550
3530
900
1695
softener M.PANEL
HEX UNIT
250
kitchen
1000
2770
dining
100
800
tank
softener
refuse chute
200
900
cleaning access
1130
800 900
VRV UNIT
5105
louvre dr
HEX UNIT
950
1200
400
1050
guest wc
1700
2200
800
plant
BUFFER
HWC 250[lt]
500 1902.5
common lobby
400
750
3650
tank
M.PANEL
void
400
3530
1355
ensuite1
200
3650
HWC 250[lt] BUFFER
VRV UNIT
200
void Fire AOV w'dow
wet riser
disabled refuge
1900
cleaning access
2400
enlarged balcony covers/protects service bay below
400
2500 400
2020
6738
2B+: 111.4m²
2400
open mesh
1900
1600
400
J
overhang - arch. feat./clean access
Note: Lvl 10 Reduced Structure, as Lvl 11
5
3750 1900
1340
2140
800 495
open mesh
400
1310
1150
2150
2x 8 pers panoramic glazed lifts
5560
overhang - arch. feat./clean access
1600
400
ensuite2 900
255
M.PANEL
1000
3580
430
900
guest wc
3080
500
250
2B+ / 2B / 1B+ / 3B Floors 2-10 (8 shown)
tank
BUFFER HEX UNIT
stair: 280mm overhanging treads
500
4
3750
800
VRV UNIT
1340
4150 600 100
1250
softener
HEX UNIT
M.PANEL
400
1600
1340
4000
bedroom1
2580
5105
250[lt]
plant
2465
200 1695
750
910 235 200HWC
open louvres
3
7500
8680
A2
250
650 1350
bedroom2
ensuite1
2215
750
2700
250
800
250
750
1130
2
8380
8380
5560
800
3250
250
plant
tank
700
1
6
7500
495 800
VRV UNIT
softener
2500
1900
BUFFER HWC 250[lt]
cleaning access 700
5
3750 1900
1100
800 495
open mesh
3500
5560
overhang - arch. feat./clean access
VRV UNIT
500
4
3750
1145
250
2250
500
200 1350
ELECTRICIAN ROOM
1600
A2
250 3750
1550
bedroom1
3
7500 250
200
6815
A2 Rf Deck
500
2
8380 2215
700
1
250
500
A FLOOR TYPE B
M.PANEL
J
20 Revision
LVL 10-13
59 58
E SIT EA
57
H AT AM
designated public rd 56
D ATE
IC
L PUB
55
PRIVATE GREEN 54
IGN DES
D ROA
~4,400m2
53
LEVEL (TYPE E2 FLOOR)
52
46
© Panos Panayiotou + Associates ΕΠΕ
45 51
Figured dimensions only are to be taken from this drawing. All dimensions are to be checked on site before any work is put in hand.
1 RO 1 AD
50
TING EXIS
44
6
3
4
8380
3750
5
3750
6
7500
designated public rd
8380
e iti tiv ac
7500
l ve le
5
3750
URSE ERCO
4
3750
WAT
3
49
s
495 800
400
495 800
5560
800
2950
800 1600
1000 200
42
1500
~17,000m2
7230
1600
1700
green areas = planters
48.634
48.711
'clearing'
P 48.059
44
500
8230
40
42
1950
46.396
DOUBLE HEIGHT FLOOR
R
6500
2000
7380
250
250
40
39
+38.0
45.143
500
+40.5
250 3651
41
41
40
P1
800 3499
3452
200
3748
2300
5011
5871
200
3651
39
250 44.557
40
43.995
LEVEL (TYPE E1 FLOOR)
22
Fam Pav ily ilion
41 45.939
3600
250
7871
+44.0 42
41
3400
R
'Qu Pa iet' vilio n
P2
40
6800
2150
1600
5200
47.569
47.776
43
2750
4000
fireplace
dining
living
+46.5
44
DIV ER (A TED BO W VE A GR TER OU CO ND UR ) SE
46
N
45
3900
kitchen
1060 900
1000
1200
1050 500
400
500 1050 200
47
6300
400 1950 1600
5860
900 400 4560
1000
2040 100
1500
1600
ensuite5
800 1700
bedroom5
3450
1800 2450 1600
Green Park 41
50.210
7400
2300
3470
100
4750
1600 100 3550
1650
500
900
400
100
300 550 200
1600 2030
4100
3100 600 ensuite4
2600 1000
1000 600
2450 100
950
900 4560
5860
1000
1140 900
1500 1700
2600
1700 3500
100 4700
1600
200
thick dotted line illustrates glass balustrading, with locked glass service gates to cleaning service areas
250
3499
M
3651
5B incl. lift and stair area: 609.5m²
300 1000
400
1600
400
1600
1600 900 400 300
5860 2140
4900
2300
5011
1300
250
300
51.746
7900
3500
800 500
3748
1400
PRIVATE
wet riser
guest wc
500
LEVEL (TYPE E3 FLOOR)
2% TOTAL SITE AREA
52.103
43
2355
K
50.377
5021
P
52.494
52.148
2565
2140
7900
13 person 1100x2100
thick dotted line illustrates glass balustrading, with locked glass service gates to cleaning service areas
slab overhangs architectural feature/cleaning access
250
630 1595
500
7380
250
52.432
500
45
stair: 280mm overhanging treads
est 1400x2400 est 1600kg
2450
2090
7380
944
8530
bedroom1
2000
8855
A1 750
3494
1050
1350
250
1675
fire/ service
N
7900
1050
100
1695
Fire AOV w'dows
penthouse green areas = planters
3651
5050
800
tank softener M.PANEL
HEX UNIT
1070
300
5050
bedroom2
softener
refuse chute
5021
500
500
HEX UNIT
52.457
5860
800
3250
5105
louvre dr
BUFFER
HWC 250[lt]
1540
3030
plant
tank
M.PANEL
550
100
200
void
250
1900
ensuite1
500
2140
2300
2495
1400
2200
5860
100
M
500
944
3300
2330 ensuite3
Fire AOV w'dow
K
3900
bedroom3
900
3494
1595
600
330 900
2315
2000
100
ensuite2
cleaning access
R
3530
PRIVATE
wet riser
void
700 500
cleaning access
13 person 1100x2100
2455
250
wet riser
2500
cleaning access
2300
laundry 2855
2090
700
bedroom4
est 1400x2400 est 1600kg
penthouse
P
1130
1600
stair: 280mm overhanging treads
fire/ service
2450
N
2700
1600
3250
8855
A1
Alarmed isolation door to landing below - push bar to penthouse side - fire brigade key to 'public' side
1540
500
250
250 400
5200
1695
Fire AOV w'dows
1600
800
200
tank softener M.PANEL
HEX UNIT
VRV UNIT
3452
800 2350
2550
1000 1550
softener
refuse chute
PUBLIC UTILITIES
HWC 250[lt] BUFFER
46
400
5105
louvre dr
HEX UNIT
52.476
J open mesh
VRV UNIT
disabled refuge
1500
1900
2x 8 pers panoramic glazed lifts
open louvres
800
400 1050
open louvres
2750
6100
plant
BUFFER
HWC 250[lt]
void
550
common lobby
250
1600
1900
6100
tank
M.PANEL
VRV UNIT
6100
200
Fire AOV w'dow
wet riser
disabled refuge
2200
400 855 495
stair: 280mm overhanging treads
HWC 250[lt] BUFFER
1070 1425
500
2400
J
open mesh
VRV UNIT
1000 500
upper
LEVEL (TYPE E2 FLOOR)
23
A1 Penthouse
A1 Penthouse
podium
- raise
d lawn
43.129
42.451
39 42.400
+38.0 41.407
3
4
3750
5
3750
6
7500
4
8380
3750
5
3750
+36.9
6
7500
8380
5
41.339
+37.3
11 lvL
40.621
B3 / + B1 / B
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5
1.5
upward
800
39.719
1900
1600
900
4600 1606
200
6200
4000
34.347
3252
1900
34.405
33.837
33.755
Client's Name
33.299
+30.9 32.723 32.901
Job Title 32.863
3748
5011
8171
200
3651
250
AMATHUS COASTAL DEVELOPMENT
24
A1 Penthouse
LEVEL (TYPE E3 FLOOR)
25
A1 Penthouse
5
+36.9 +30.4
P3
gical/ruins
area FIRE LIFT
+30.5
31.956
VOID
retained slope
31.467 31.565
LIFT
31.122
31.357
tomb
30.979
LEVELS 22-25 TYPICAL PLANS - BLOCK A GENERAL ARRANGEMENT
piazza
+30.3
31.258
Drawing title
30.878
+30.8
30.752 30.747
30.796 30.799
P4
~4,85
0m2
security pavilion
30.337
g public
parking
30.09630.031
lay-by
+29.95
29.903
+30.0
29.796
+28.5
29.713 29.680 29.651 29.516 29.268 29.178 28.886
32.334
32.171
5
car park 10
15
feeder lane
+28.9
16021
Drawing No
28.794 28.658 28.519 28.432
+28.5
20
R3.
32.008
Status
+29.5
30.218
1 : 200 @ A1 metres
+29.8
VOID
lvl 00
30.468
existin
Scale
Job No
36.203
36.238
3
+32
archaelo
EXT PU G INC BLI C R OMPLE OA TE D
36.157
9.5
car park pavilion
lvl 00
36.107
R1
+30.4
32.301
32.805
+32.1
LEVEL (PLANT FLOOR)
piazza
32.915
32.774
250
36.280
36.022
33.045
250
built-in seating
Blk A podium lvl 01
32.959
GARDEILA LTD
250
500
36.237
podium lvl 01 +30.4
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33.060
thick dotted line illustrates glass balustrading, with locked glass service gates to cleaning service areas
ium
pod
35.051
R
lawn
36.138
+36.9
35.609
P
7600
roof over
4196
50mm deep built-in seating
1600
1600
1630
11
+36.9
1700
1700
1600 5200 1600
200
as Lvl
5
3651
7380
cture,
7900
2000
d Stru
apts lvl upward 02
Blk B
N
5021
7900 R
4045
36.124
2B+ / 2B / 1B Floors + 2-10 (8 / 3B Note: shown Lvl 10 Reduce )
9.5
800 3400
1000
bar
1550
+30.4
36.701
lounge
2855
Checked
36.351
944
200
Date
AD
2740
PRIVATE
lawn
6500
Drawn 37.354
podium service entrance
+36.9
1700
4x8m open-roof pool
4260
5860 1440
2040
changing/ wc/shower
1000
500
Description
2140
2140
100
wet riser
P
VOID
Revision
36.529
13 person 1100x2100
+30.4 +30.4
37.814
K M
CULVER T
2150 2350 1600
est 1400x2400 est 1600kg
N
equipment /server
900
fire/ service
penthouse
+37.3 +36.9
7230
2800
1600
PRIVATE
900
stair: 280mm overhanging treads
6300
wet riser
1675
Fire AOV w'dows
3494
FIRE BRIGADE LIFT ACCESS
4560
1070
38.678
5860
13 person 1100x2100
A1
refuse chute
2300
penthouse
softener M.PANEL
HEX UNIT
void Fire AOV w'dow
5860
est 1400x2400 est 1600kg
softener
400
1600 900 400
fire/ service
2450
K M
250
1540
3250
500
2090
550
500
7380
stair: 280mm overhanging treads
8855
250
2200
750
Fire AOV w'dows
38.962
250
1600
500
1675
1600
1070
HEX UNIT
800 1695
tank
louvre dr
BUFFER
HWC 250[lt]
disabled refuge
A1
refuse chute
39
DRAFT 16.5.16 39.151
plant
tank
M.PANEL
1200
2950
open louvres
400
softener M.PANEL
HEX UNIT
void disabled refuge
1950
softener
255
VRV UNIT
3
tank
louvre dr
5105
6100
HEX UNIT
slab curves down to far stair core wall
BUFFER
HWC 250[lt]
6100
void Fire AOV w'dow
wet
wetriser riser
plant
tank
M.PANEL
J
HWC 250[lt] BUFFER
VRV UNIT
) - 1.5m
5560
open mesh 200
UND
800
GRO
2395
2x 8 pers panoramic glazed lifts
cp ram p @ 1:1 0
3650
NEW PUBL IC RO OW
2800
J
VRV UNIT
SE (BEL
800
HWC 250[lt] BUFFER
ERCOUR
5560
open mesh
VRV UNIT
DIVE RTED WAT
495 800
p @ 1:1 3
1900
2x 8 pers panoramic glazed lifts
private
1900
cp ram
400 855 495
public
2400
stair: 280mm overhanging treads
+36.9
400
5200
M
800
52.505
void
K
5560
overhang - arch. feat./clean access
AREA PLOT
1900
2x 8 pers panoramic glazed lifts
LINE -
1900
CHAIN
400 855 495
f' el
2400
stair: 280mm overhanging treads
'sh
43
52.487
400
J
TP GA A 103
R5.5
5
+28.2
Revision
31.694
28.340 28.356
28.287
28.263
28.192
R6
28.168 28.139
28.180
28.063
27.982
28.026
31.570
31.458 31.440
31.389
PLANNING SUBMISSION
31.226
30.962
30.631 30.663
30.335
Concept Masterplan
30.170
29.821
29.553
Amathus Coastal Development
29.419 29.308 29.248 28.905
18 April 2016
28.840
16021 • PR 21
N
N
28.628
AMATHUS HOTEL tennis court
28.475
0
5
10
15
20
25m
SCALE 1 : 250 @ A0
28.290
© Panos Panayiotou + Associates ΕΠΕ
28.160
28.064
10
Larnaka Waterfront
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Larnaka Waterfront Marina & Port Urban Redevelopment Project - Larnaka, Cyprus This prestigious, 245,000 m² mixed use development aims to regenerate and transform the historic city of Larnaka with a new, in excess of 1km long, vibrant waterfront and marine ‘Gateway to Cyprus’. The scheme, currently at planning stage for phase one, provides new marina, mega-yacht and cruise facilities, as well as a variety of waterfront urban environments, and a striking tall building promontory ‘sea gateway’. The vision is for Larnaka to become a place recognisable across the world for its spaces, places and architecture, respecting its eminent past whilst looking ambitiously to the future. The project was designed to be at the forefront of sustainable thinking, and for its spaces to be focused on accessibility - to serve the community as well as tourism, to be a place of fun and excitement, and of the unexpected. The over-arching architectural concept was to propose buildings with a certain lightness and dynamism, playing with mass and folding surfaces to create a rich new architecture for Larnaka; an architecture forming a dialogue between the land and the sea and the historic buildings of the area. Appointment: 2006 Budget: €75 Million Phase 1, €1 Billion overall Status 2013: Planning Application approved in principal.
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Larnaka Waterfront Competition Stage The site is an under-used marina and port, next to the busy ‘palm tree beachfront’ - Finikoudes. The bid for this project took six months of intense work from 2006-07. The design was very much a product of extremely close collaboration between the bidding contractors, the marine designers and cruise and marina experts, with my team bringing it all together around an urban and architectural design ‘chassis’ and concept. My sketch isometrics of ‘the chassis’ proved to be a very effective method of communication in the early stages of the design (see below). The project began with the marine designer’s concept of cutting into the land to expand the marina and installing offshore jetties for the new cruise terminal (giving easier berthing for visiting cruises and negating an extremely expensive expansion of the port proper). The driver for the urban design was to extend the beachfront axis into the site as one of four ribbon boulevards, intertwined to create a new large urban park at their centre, forming the urban chassis and links to the city on all sides. I also proposed uncovering the old byzantine Kition Port to form a ‘living museum’, linking it by canal to the new marina.
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New waterfront visual
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Larnaka Waterfront Competition Stage
As well as intertwining to form the central urban park the ribbon boulevards also became articulators for a new urban rhythym of buildings and other public spaces essentially in four zones (running left to right on RHS image): 1. Sympathetic extension of Europe Square with it’s existing colonial building stock with pitched roof ‘floating’ colonnaded mixed-use buildings projecting into the marina 2. A new civic square, with town hall, municipal offces and mediatheque (also fronting onto the central urban park) at the intersection of ribbon boulevards and the new canal heading into the city. 3. At the next intersection of ribbon boulevards one extends to form a podium looking over the marina, with an acropolis wine & local produce market, focussed toward servicing the incoming cruise visitors. 4. Flowing from this point two waterside gently curving promenades, for locals and tourists to enjoy the setting of the cruise and mega-yacht ports.
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The central urban ‘Zenon Park’, with mediatheque and new town hall to the right and start of the mixed-use port promontory area to the left.
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Larnaka Waterfront Planning Application By the time preferred bidder status was confirmed in 2010, and we had won the contract subject to Closing, the market conditions had completely changed, along with some key stakeholders. This led to a more cautious new proposal, in smaller phases. My idea to connect to the old inland Byzantine port via new canal to the marina unfortunately did not make the initial phases. However, the general urban principles of the scheme followed through, but with much less mixed-use areas. The masterplan became more zonal, with defined marina cultural and commercial quarter, low and high rise residential areas, and the huge pedestrian promenade all the way out to the port promontory was changed (becoming a simpler perambulation). The scheme became more focused on being a soft/low density masterplan, and building very high away from the city to create striking forms to ‘mark’ the marine ‘Gateway to Cyprus’.
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Larnaka Waterfront Planning Application
It was important to mark the construction of Phase 1, and of the marina, with a centre-piece building - to give the marina identity and to do something really exciting to show the project had arrived. This Yacht Club building would also act as a hub for the marina, both functionally and operationally. The building needed to do a number of things: act as managerial centre and control tower, accommodate administration for incoming vessels, provide space for the marina club and also be a central high-end restaurant and bar. It’s site was masterplanned to sit at the centre of the marina, on its own jetty set at the level of the vessel pontoons, on the axis of a new road into the city. With this axis and its function, the start of the design was to see the building as a point of transition from land to sea, and as a viewing point for the whole marina (whether for control or for marina users and visitors). I developed the form very intuitively. It would need three levels; a pontoon level for administration and receiving ships, a mid level in-line with the piazza, to connect to the land and support a big dining/club meeting space, and a high, raised level for the control tower. Therefore I proposed a plinth for the bottom level, a floating tube for the mid level (housing the large space, connecting the land to the sea - having a very axial, transitional nature akin to a telescope) and a projecting top volume with 360 degree views. A curved floor slab flows through the tube, providing a processional entrance and then a ‘tongue’ projecting out into the marina, housing a large pool and terrace/bar. The architecture plays with, cuts into, and projects from, the primary tube. It is reminiscent of a basking shark or a Greek Trireme warship (with its bow ‘eye’). The three concept images on this page were the first to be presented publically. As intended, thankfully it became a key identifier for the project, in the minds of the clients and the public.
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raised street over waterfront, with the yacht club and high rise towers in relief
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The Marina Quarter is essentially a masterplan within the masterplan. It is a fulcrum between the marina, the beach, and the expanded Europe Square. It is designed to the scale of the existing old city, with narrow streets akin to the old castle area. The architecture is one of floating planes and stone blocks, keeping the ground floor transparent to give views through to the marina. It is an architecture of the public space, of the voids between the buildings as much as the buildings themselves. The proposal is about shade, walking and discovering large and small vistas, and of courtyards of differing scale. To maximise the potential of the proximity to the marina, an expansive raised deck runs across the buildings, forming dining terraces and raised squares. Coloured, ‘glass cube’ lifts highlight places to ascend to the raised street, as do roof planes folded down to the ground, enclosing access stairs. The ground surface reinforces the composition with strips of timber and differing stone paving, along with coloured glass ‘info seats’.
vista from Europe Sq to the marina
Europe Square
sketch 3d models were used to explain what was quite a complex proposition and all it’s different aspects and qualities, at the early stages of the design work
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Larnaka Waterfront Planning Application A cruise terminal, indeed any transportation architecture, is passenger flow driven. However, they are also tourist gateways so need to have a certain arrival ‘event’ about them. At large, distant scale, the high rise towers provided the impressive identity and anticipation. The cruise terminal would need to make the act of transition from sea to land an exhilarating one. The design derived from reflecting the function of the building’s two levels, aiming to make the operation and passenger flow intuitive and self evident. Ground level collects passengers and baggage. Baggage is then stored for loading at quay level. Passengers are processed and rise to the 1st floor either to board immediately via bridge into the cruise ship, or to wait for boarding. This process allows operations and passengers to be neatly separated, and passengers kept away from the busy and dangerous quay. Thus a ground floor folded plane/roof collects and stores, with its closed side to the quay. A first floor upper folded plane/roof intersects the ‘collection plane’, forming a double height space for the check-in transition up to the first floor. This upper plane is open to the vessel embarkation side, showing its intent and shading the boarding terrace, and is closed to the towers behind, for the tower residents’ privacy. The ground floor roof plane; 1. extends at the entrance to shade passengers and the baggage collection conveyor belt; 2. extends to the ‘rear side’ facing the towers to shade baggage handlers for fly and cruise operation, where baggage is arriving in bulk from the airport; 3. extends to the side facing the open sea to provide a viewing deck and also create a secondary entrance/exit serving the off-shore jetty (as opposed to quay/ship in-port). The first version of this scheme used a dramatic and very extensive curved, folding and interlocking pair of planes – see bottom, this page. To reduce costs, the planes and folds were taken to 90 degrees, and the overhangs cut back a little – see bottom, opposite. The final top roof plane folds and slides further, upward at three points, providing wind catchers to take the prevailing westerly wind into the waiting room, and forming colourful ‘markers’ for the building, reminiscent of maritime signal flags. final proposal in context with a cruise ship and the high rise towers
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1st proposal sketch 3d models - curved roof planes and fold-up top roof
final proposal entrance / check in
final proposal sketch 3d models - curved roof planes and fold-up top roof
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Larnaka Waterfront Planning Application
The first scheme for the cruise terminal expressed the passenger flow much more explicitly, and connected to the off-shore jetty and in-port berth in a much more dramatic fashion. It also had a much closer connection to the towers, formally. The form derived from crossing two ‘collectors’, one from the off shore jetty for arrivals/tours and one for departing/ waiting passengers to access the ship in-port. It was designed like two interlocked petals, in a yin and yang. The scheme was abandoned as strategically, during design development, it was finally deemed as unnecessarily expensive to provide accommodation for incoming tour passengers, they could board buses straight from the jetty, and it was more efficient to move the building nearer to the in-port berth for service access to the jetty and future berths, etc.
early project marketing visualisation
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sketch 3d model images, for discussion
final proposal sketch 3d models - curved roof planes and fold-up top roof
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Larnaka Waterfront Planning Application
How do you approach designing tall buildings in a low scale city, with the only high rise context being massive cruise ships? Even in the early competition it was of prime importance to me to have the buildings form a dialogue with the ships and the sea. The goal was to create something that was not typical high rise architecture - straight lines and projecting rectangular balconies. I wanted to create something smooth and fluid. The summer in Cyprus is very hot - up to 45 degrees - so people live outside, unless they retreat to the air conditioning. How can you make an apartment 100m in the air have the same desirable qualities as a house in the mountains, with its benefit from breezes and shaded gardens and terraces? How can you design places of shade, but of different qualities of light and sunshine? I began to think about these massive volumes as ‘inhabited cliffs’, where the accommodation itself was hidden in the interior; like needles of the stratified limestone local shore, weathered away and shifted with the power of the sea and wind. I began to sculpt towers along the port promontory rising in height toward the sea, breaking them into six to allow cross winds to flow through them, and thus cross ventilation of terraces and spaces within. The strata shift to close and open full wrap round terraces to the sun, giving shade or places to sunbathe - walled gardens in the sky. Each tower has a central southern facing double height cut as a communal pool and sunbathing deck. The penthouses have structural glass individual pools.
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iHome Project
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iHome Project Residential Towers - Limassol, Cyprus The design for this mid-rise residential development of 50 apartments was driven by three conceptual drivers - permeability, individuality and dialogue-with-nature - to deliver a stand-out and unusual ‘mode-of-living’. The building is composed of three related elements; frame, habitation units and planting. We wanted to give air around the units and vary proportions, to increase their sense of individuality and space, like individual houses hanging in the air, and also allow the buildings to be permeable; to break down their mass, so you can see through the building at distance. In order to do this we needed a frame, to hang the units in. The space around the units gives us the opportunity for planting, for ‘gardens in the air’, further reinforcing the individuality and privacy between units, and forming a further element of the frame; the leaves to the branches, if you will. The units are clad in patinated copper, with it’s obvious link to the ground and nature in Cyprus, forming an ‘envelope’ of natural Cypriot material. The unit edges are curved to further enhance the space between units, and perhaps give them an aura of floating, within the structural and ‘green’ frame. Balconies are pulled planes from each unit’s copper ‘wrap’. Essentially, the end result is a dialogue between structure, nature and dwellings; it can be very much considered a multioccupancy, super-natural tree house. Project Details Appointment: 2014 Planning Area: circa 4,300m2 Status 2017: On SIte
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iHome - Concept Stage
The design began with a few simple goals: 1. React against the usual Cypriot apartment block solid monolith typology 2. Give the apartments their own identity and individuality, and ‘break’ them away from their neighbours to give added value 3. In doing so, allow nature to invade the building, and create transparency through the building We produced various options and presented them to the client. The pictures below are of the early 3d model for the selected concept. This was the most daring option - the most fragmented and organic - and was a bold decision; to go for added-value and individuality over traditional thinking.
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iHome - Planning Stage
Even mid-rise buildings in Cyprus are very contentious, so we set about explaining to the Planners why relaxing height concerns and considering permeability, transparency and the ability to have green spaces at height within the buildings, and more at ground level, would deliver a quality of architecture beyond the simple consideration of what height a normal building would be. The diagrams to the right were a key part of what was a successful Planning Dept presentation. As the mass of the buildings forming a ‘blank wall’ to the areas behind was a concern the design strategy of ‘floating units’ addressed their concerns well, which was further illustrated with the photomontage below.
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iHome - Sales & Construction Stage
The interior and outside space design concepts were a natural extension of the architectural concept, looking to extend the use of natural and indigenous materials as far as possible. The decking of the exterior terraces between the apartments was always envisaged as being of oiled olive wood, but finally an oiled iroko was chosen as it was very similar and much more cost effective. This then fed into etxensive use in the interiors, to give a softness and warmth to them, to contrast against the metallic exterior. Another commonly used material proposed was limestone, a prevalent material on the coastal cliffs and another material whose softness nicely contrasted with the metallic exterior (in both colour and tone). In areas where we have shear walls in concrete these are often exposed, to let the building truthfully expose it’s structure, along wiith it’s frame, and again to nicely contrast in a neutral tone against the patinated copper and stainless steel exterior materials.
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Steel structure was adopted, primarily for speed of delivery, using hex columns to give good earthquake performance and bubble deck slabs to minimise weight and make them ‘flat’. Initially the walls/cladding were designed as a light gauge steel, off-site manufactured, panelling system. Unfortunately this was found to be considerably more expensive in Cyprus than using thermal blocks with metal rainscreen over, so that was the final methodology; so speed and modularity was sacrificed for cost reasons. This was a shame as the modular nature of the building and theoretical speed-advantage in the design concept was at the forefront of my thinking, but needs must. The project was named ‘iHome’ by the client, having reminding them of ‘hanging’ Apple computers. I had been thinking more of the Nakagin Capsule Apartments in Tokyo during the design process, but it’s strange what can effect you subconsciously; in past offices I had been surrounded by Apple G4 computers, which do have an aesthetic appeal.
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Bedroom
550 1320
1
1545
UP
Master Bedroom
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Block A - 7th Floor
Master Bedroom
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7950
Figured dimensions only are to be taken from this drawing. All dimensions are to be checked on site before any work is put in hand.
670 1160
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Only drawings marked 'FOR CONSTRUCTION' are to be used as information for construction purposes
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Outline: Floor Below
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Bedroom
UP
2
© Panos Panayiotou + Associates ... 3584 7951 Only drawings marked 'FOR CONSTRUCTION' are to be used as information for construction purposes
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Zagreb Airport
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Zagreb Airport, Croatia - Concept Development
We were appointed by a consortium led by Airports de Paris and Bouygues to assist in bidding for the Zagreb Airport Concession in Croatia. This was specifically to provide architecture and masterplanning for the new terminal, planned to accommodate 5 million passengers annually, to Service Level C. The final proposed area of the scheme was 65,860m2. From a base concept scheme provided with the tender, we used our extensive airport operational knowledge and experience, in tandem with the consortium airport specialists, to develop overall urban planning, space planning, flow diagrams and a well-developed architectural concept, which included rationalisation and buildability exercises of the organic form, steel frame, glazed building envelope, and preliminary implementation and phasing concepts, to enable the bid to have both a strong functional and cost-rationalised basis.
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All images this page are of the base concept scheme by Kincl+Neidhardt+Radic
our building model - first floor and roof
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Zagreb Airport, Croatia - Concept Development The bid was successful, and the project achieved preferred bidder status in 2012. For political reasons local architects took the scheme to tender and construction. The building was completed in 2015, retaining the key design characteristics we developed.
Our building model - all floors
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Histria Resort, Pula
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credit - Oliver Ford
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Park Plaza Histria Resort, Pula, Croatia An extensive scope of work of masterplanning, architecture and interior design for the Histria, Golden Rocks and Medulin Resorts peninsulars, near the town of Pula in Istria, Croatia, incorporating seven hotels, five of which we are refurbishing; all for Park Plaza Hotels. The Histria Resort illustrated here comprises of 2 hotels, over 400 apartments and a spectrum of associated facilities ranging from shops, bars and restaurants through to swimming pools and sports grounds, which are all now re-developed into a specialist conference resort. The final phase, project centre-piece is proposed as a 2,000 delegate conference centre and events venue converting the existing Austrian-Hungarian San Giovanni Fort using a twin layer tensile ‘kite’ roof floating over the fort to create an incredible conference and events space. The existing fort has been cut and carved to create resort entertainment spaces by infilling the fort moat and making the original structure almost imperceptible. The new proposal will allow the moat and original structures to be easily identifiable, regaining the power and form of this incredible piece of history in it’s new life.
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centre piece events and conference centre
newly refurbished Histria Hotel
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Park Plaza Histria Resort, Pula, Croatia
Concept architectural / structural model developed with Techniker (S. Engineers)
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Totaltowers
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Totaltowers 2 mixed-use towers for Totalserve Management - LImassol, Cyprus This development for an international financial services company aims to create a world-class pair of tall buildings, providing podium piazzas at ground level with associated commercial units and galleries, business centres and office spaces on the lower floors, accessed by large atria at ground floor, along with super-deluxe apartments above, plus a ‘sky bar’ at the top of the largest tower. Sky gardens separate uses in the towers, providing elevated, open, private spaces for each use, with magnificent views. The towers aim to set a new technological benchmark on the island, incorporating extensive apex photo-voltaic panel arrays, geo-heating and cooling, rain water harvesting, lift power generation and integral, automated, glazing cavity solar blinds. I developed the concept for the buildings from a macro-scale analysis of Limassol, as the buildings were to be so prominent on the city’s sky line, located at a transitional point between the beach and the central business district. The buildings’ translucent crystal mass is carved away to address vantages to and from the city’s waterfront, the sea, the beach, roof tops, mountains and sky, and to reflect the dynamics of its position. The result is diverse and dynamic, open and closed, and an iconic ‘beacon’ at the gateway to the city on the coast road. At the time of writing both Towers have been submitted for Planning approval, and Tower 1 has reached Tender Stage.
Project Details Appointment: 2009 Budget: €25 Million Totaltower 1, €12 Million Totaltower 1 Status 2016: Totaltower 2 - Minor Tower - Planning Approved Totaltower 1 - Major Tower - sent to Committee with Conditional Approval given July 2016 (under action)
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Totaltowers Design Development
My first steps for the project were to set some basic urban design principles and aims. The buildings would be considerably taller than their neighbours so this needed to be addressed, along with the seascape and proximity to the main sea front boulevard. It was also necessary to address the diverse, mixed use nature of the proposed towers. The sketches here show my initial ideas to break the buildings between uses, at levels whereby one break addressed the sea (with a podium), one addressed the existing city rooftop level and another addressed the sea horizon and the mountains in the distance behind. I also wanted to make the buildings tall and slim, as this would minimize the impact on the sea views of the existing buildings behind. Further thoughts were that: - there should be a dynamic conversation between the buildings - the rhythm of the seascape/streetscape needed to be addressed - could I make the buildings/segments ‘float’?
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Totaltowers Design Development
For a mixed use development with four uses for the large tower - commercial, offices, residential, sky bar - access and how to deal with the ground level would always be a major decision. I gave the client four options: - push the tower to the street front and create primary access at the rear - separate the tower into two and have a rear residential tower and a higher, side office tower - push the tower to the side completely and have a 1st floor reception for the offices - push the tower to the back and create a large piazza to the front, with secondary entrances to the rear
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Totaltowers Design Development
The client was very keen on the idea of transparency and use of extensive glass (which would create some technical issues - see opposite), and wanted a very dynamic shifting envelope. Leading on from the massing and public realm studies, I developed an idea of the buildings being a piece of figurative cut crystal sculpture, or ‘mega jewellery’. The cutting became commercially justified so high value glazed corners would benefit the internal spaces (again see opposite), and I introduced the idea of forming voids in the mass for sky gardens, to create exterior space for all the uses. A taper was introduced to accentuate the height of the building - almost a false perspective - tapering to the ‘jewels’ at the top of the towers - in the large tower the jewel being the sky bar and in the smaller tower the penthouse apartments.
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Totaltowers Design Development
Proposing an almost completely glazed facade for a building in Cyprus posed some major challenges in terms of solar gain. For the side buttress ‘clasps’ of the building I proposed external metal brise soleils (see development image far right). For the central ‘crystals’ particularly, but throughout, I proposed a system of double glazed unit-integral, super-fine metal mesh blinds, which would block out up to 85% solar gain, on BMS computer auto deploy, whilst maintaining the aesthetic of the building and being virtually un-noticeable in terms of views; slick, crisp, metallic, and difficult to damage by the occupants. The client vetoed the brise soleils (shown far right - it had to be all glass!) but went with the auto mesh blinds throughout (see right). For this crystalline building the facade’s build quality was of paramount importance. Therefore I spent a considerable amount of time in workshops, and factory and building visits with the Lebanese nominated sub-contractor, to ensure the quality of the specification, particularly concerning the mullion-less corner detail which would be the ‘icing on the cake’ in terms of realising the ‘crystal’ concept (see below).
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Totaltowers Design Development
Along the way there were many design options which were investigated, some very simple and others less so. I actually started out proposing a very simple, rectilinear building, as you have seen, but the client was very keen on a very articulated facade so we went through quite a few options as to how to achieve this, whilst maintaining the concept and making the end result economically feasible and buildable. These illustrations show one of the options which didn’t make the cut. The main idea was to make a glass, stratified block - crystalline again, something seemingly ‘super-natural’ and cut into it to form terraces and sky gardens. The overall effect I wanted to achieve was something very dynamic, almost a ‘blur of a building’, with strong overall weight and presence but with innate logic to suit a commercial office space.
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Totaltowers Planning Application
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Εσωτερικός χώρος ηλεκτρολογικών εγκαταστασεων, μαγαζιών.
Leontiou A Maximos Court Office 17 3020 Limassol - Cyprus
1HR VERTICAL FIRE CURTAIN WITH FAIL SAFE & OPENING FUNCTION
EXTRACT AIR PATH (DUCTS WITH DAMPERS)
ΑΝΕΛΚΥΣΤΗΡΑΣ ΠΥΡΟΣΒΕΣΤΙΚΗΣ
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Client's name
Εξωτερικός χώρος μηχανολογικών εγκαταστασεων, μαγαζιών.
ΕΞΟΔΟΣ ΚΙΝΔΥΝΟΥ ΠΡΟΘΑΛΑΜΟΣ
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Leontiou A Maximos Court Office 17 3020 Limassol - Cyprus
Client's name
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Only drawings marked 'FOR CONSTRUCTION' are to be used as information for construction purposes Figured dimensions only are to be taken from this drawing. All dimensions are to be checked on site before any work is put in hand.
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Only drawings marked 'FOR CONSTRUCTION' are to be used as information for construction purposes Figured dimensions only are to be taken from this drawing. All dimensions are to be checked on site before any work is put in hand.
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7ος ΟΡΟΦΟΣ (ΓΡΑΦΕΙΑ)
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Lord Byron Project
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Lord Byron Project Commercial Headquarters - Nicosia, Cyprus The Lord Byron Project is two office/commercial use, interconnected towers on a prominent corner in the diplomatic area of Nicosia, where two major streets cross - Lord Byron and Grivas Digeni. Tower A will be the tallest building in Nicosia, at over 100m high. Scott Brownrigg won the design competition to secure the project and secured Planning Preliminary View formal support in 2012. At the time of writing the project is awaiting Planning Approval. The buildings twist, and play with light and shadow. Their Eastern and Western ‘solar shields’ drape the building like flowing gowns, catching the light, forming shadows and creating a dynamic ‘deep’ facade, varying in aspect through each day. The architecture has simple components with varying harmonies, which when brought together create a complex composition. It is inspired by Lord Byron, and his poem ‘She Walks in Beauty’: ‘One shade the more, one ray the less, Had half impaired the nameless grace, Which waves in every raven tress, Or softly lightens o’er her face; Where thoughts serenely sweet express, How pure, how dear their dwelling place.’
Project Details Appointment: 2012 Budget: €25 Million Status 2016: Planning Preliminary View ‘Mind to Approve’ secured 2012. Full Planning Application submitted 2013. Comments returned and actioned Dec 2015.
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Planning Submission Scheme
Winning Competition Submission Scheme
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Lord Byron - Competition Stage Lord George Gordon Byron was an English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement. He is revered in the Hellenic world due to his part in fighting against the Ottoman Empire in the Greek War of Independence. There are many streets named after him in Cyprus, but Lordos Byronos street in South West Nicosia is surely their most grand and fitting tribute, being one of the most refined and expensive streets in the capital, surrounded by civic and consular buildings. As such, the site at the corner of Lordos Byronos and one of the main arteries of the city, Grivas Digeni Street, cost a great deal and the client wanted to build something very special. As the scale of the city is still small, with very few buildings over 16 storeys, the context would not only be local but also the ancient Venetian eleven bastion-starred walled city, which would be visible from the new building, rising to over 100m high from ground level. The immediate context was dominated in character by the Museum of Nicosia, behind the site in its large garden setting, by the river to the West (which the Venetians redirected to form the moat for the old city’s wall), and primarily by the huge number of mature Eucalyptus trees which border the river and Byron Street (planted by the British to address the site’s marshy character.)
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Lord Byron
Nicosia (Lefkosia)
To begin formulating a site specific response my thoughts first went to the Eucalyptus trees, and the cool space in between the trees, contrasting with the heat of the sun during most months in Cyprus. Could I design a building which created a cool space ‘between its boughs’ that naturally shaded its interior? This could only work for the interior (perhaps the building could split and each branch lean toward each other?). So how could I protect the rest of the building, around this cool heart?
She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that’s best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes: Thus mellow’d to that tender light Which heaven to gaudy day denies. One shade the more, one ray the less, Had half impaired the nameless grace Which waves in every raven tress, Or softly lightens o’er her face; Where thoughts serenely sweet express How pure, how dear their dwelling-place.
I looked to Byron for further inspiration, and what better place to start than one of his most famous poems ‘She Walks in Beauty’. What was beauty to Byron - what could inspire me there? This poem was supposedly penned on Byron admiring a beautiful lady at court. It is clear from the poem that he was transfixed by her, and the perfect balance of her features and her apparel, set in a perfect light. There is obviously beauty in the text too, the rhythm of the words perfectly balanced with his meaning. Just as a poem works on rhythm, I decided to create a rhythm of horizontal projections up the building, akin to the rhythms of the poem, to protect from the high sun. But how could I protect against low sun, both in the morning and evening? Just as Byron was inspired by his lady’s ‘veil’, I decided to veil and dress the building to cloak it from the sun. The overall aim was to create a series of different formal shading elements, each essentially simple but coming together to create a changing composition, playing with light and shade, to create something of the same beauty by which Byron had become transfixed by his lady. Such a thing would be delicate, translucent and softly structured; a skeleton leaf‘s delicacy came to mind.
And on that cheek, and o’er that brow, So soft, so calm, yet eloquent, The smiles that win, the tints that glow, But tell of days in goodness spent, A mind at peace with all below, A heart whose love is innocent!
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Lord Byron - Competition Stage The next step was to generate the building form, particularly in reaction to the urban context. The intention was to create a form which had complexity through overlaid, sequential, formal design steps. Explaining these steps and their reasoning, either practical or poetic, was a very successful manner in which to engage the client with the building’s design process, and was one of the primary reasons the design won the competition, we heard later.
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SPLIT
TWIST
TAPER
to create the opportunity of the shaded in-between space
to respond to the corner and to the old city axis, and to ‘make’ the in-between space
to further respond to the corner junction, and to create terraces facing the old city
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spaces melt from the mass and join to the neighbour forming the sky gardens/bridges
the building is sliced to form the horizontal brise soleils (vertical facade rhythm)
the Eastern and Western facades are ‘dressed’ to protect from low sun
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Lord Byron - Competition Stage
Due to the considerable height of the building in relation to its surroundings, and its significant relation to the primary streets Lord Byron and Grivas, along with relation to the open space of the museum park behind and the Eucalyptus wood around the river along Byron, we conducted a number of studies to look at the form of the building in its large urban context, and make sure the dynamic of the form would sit comfortably within it. I also wanted the building to have a certain softness and transparency in its materiality, so the building didn’t feel too monolithic in its setting, despite its size. In terms of facade, a palette of dotted materials was chosen, so in over-layering elements there was a commonality amongst them all. The veils over their supporting light, gridshell structure are dot perforated stainless steel mesh. That material repeats on the brise soleils, but with a thicker sheet - both having a certain reflectivity and transparency but with a different nature. The glass is fritted with the same dot pattern.
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Lord Byron Street full context west elevation, looking toward the rear museum park
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Lord Byron - Competition Stage Just as I had illustrated the origin and inspiration for the form, I also wanted to explain to the client the functional in every aspect graphically during the competition presentation. Therefore, I showed six diagrams: for areas and levels, uses and areas, servicing concept (geothermal heating/cooling and interchange between the towers), natural cooling (sky gardens/bridges) and cross ventilation, and high and low sun protection. These diagrams became incredibly useful to us and the client from then on.
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Lord Byron - Planning Stage We won the commission, which was a major coup as the competition was stiff and produced impressive proposals. I set to work rationalising the proposal with the structural engineer. Due to the earthquake risk in Cyprus, no structure can be offset or transferred from the vertical, so some compromises on the amount of twist were necessary to thread the column structure through the basement car park. Then the next challenge was securing the Fire Departments approval, with the help of the fire engineer, for single stair cores, connected at all floors with sky bridges, and to have the top two storeys of the large tower with just single stair escape – neither had been proposed on the island before. The scheme went to preliminary view with the Planners, and passed; commended with mind to approve. Proposing the plethora of double height spaces, sky gardens and sky bridges was very unusual, and for the Planners to accept them was a major coup. It seemed they were as excited about the building as the client and I were.
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Our working detailed model
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Lord Byron - Planning Stage
Figured dimensions only are to be taken from this drawing. All dimensions are to be checked on site before any work is put in hand.
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Lord Byron Project Drawing title
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Tofarco Ltd
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Lord Byron Project
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Public Sq
Leontiou A' 254 Maximos Court Office 17 3020 Limassol, Cyprus T + 357 25 333 394 F + 357 25 333 450 W scottbrownrigg.com
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White Box House Private Residence - Alethriko, Cyprus I provided full architectural and interior design services for this private residence on an isolated, although central, coastal village site, benefiting from panoramic views - to the village church, the sea and the hills. The client’s brief was to deliver a crisp, contemporary, sustainable building, with nods to the Cypriot vernacular, along with providing extensive terracing to take advantage of the views. I developed the idea of taking a cube and then unwrapping it - to create a spiral of terraces and stairs - and then punching holes in it to create windows, and particularly a huge picture window to the frontage and double height entrance area. Traditional Cypriot coursed stone walling planes thread through the building, adding texture and dynamic to the crisp, white primary exterior and interior ‘unfolded’ envelope, and also significant ‘thermal mass’. The punched picture window to the North and the extensive window openings to the South, on axis, allow the house to be ‘opened up,’ North to South, to take advantage of the off shore breeze, to passively cool the building via through-draught. The cantilevered terraces and extensive brushed aluminium pergolas, ‘pulled’ with white wall planes away from the house ‘box’, protect the building and it’s immediate external spaces from the sun, allowing the house to be opened up and essentially extend the interior into the exterior in summer. The house benefits from a multi-level pool side space, with a shaded raised Pavilion area incorporating an external kitchen, stepping down to the pool side terrace, leading to a three level L-shaped pool, linked with submerged steps, allowing the owners and their guests to recline in a shallow area, stand in a shoulder height area, or exercise in the deep 17m ‘lap pool’. There is also a top terrace bar area, envisaged as a roof level lounge, incorporating large floor standing cantilevered lamps, blurring the line between what is exterior and interior in the house – a recurring them in the design. The house was completed in October 2016.
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Ventus Mega-Home, St Theodoros, Cyprus A commission to design a 1,750 m² luxury ‘mega-villa’ on a secluded beachfront site. Ventus, the Latin for wind, became the name of the house.
Project Status Appointment: 2013 Budget: €3 Million Sale Value: €15 Million estimate Status 2013: Off-plan purchaser sought. Awaiting instruction to submit Planning Application.
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The site is an incredible plot of land. Unusually for the island it is a secluded beach, which due to fate and politics has not been developed. The developer happened upon an option to buy a central plot without constraint and snapped it up. The site is raised over the sea and coast road, and surrounded by grass land. Being on this wonderful raised plateau was inspiration enough, whilst looking at children playing with kites on the beach. The concept began from an idea of floating the building over the land, like a kite, and cutting into the plateau to form a plinth, providing support stone planes of varying materials, some natural and local, some unusual and foreign. Much along the idea of the English house ‘Ha-ha’ moat, where the garden and land in front have no boundaries due to levels, I wanted do the same thing here and stretch an infinity pool across the whole site. In this way, from within the house there was no break between pool and sea, and on a calm day the sea would be visually brought seamlessly right up to the house. The image to the left is my mark up over the very first draft 3d model, worked up by my colleagues Lewis Critchley and Bruce Calton.
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With such a large house and a two storey height limit it was natural to develop a long and dramatic form sitting in the landscape. The boomerang wing form came about with combining the floating, kite idea along with a desire to have all the accommodation achieve sea views - the ‘bend’ allowed all the rooms to have a sea view and accentuated the aero-form section. As you can see in the very early model, the form was initially not a smooth wrapped-around plane, folding back on itself - this came later, to further accentuate the wing aesthetic. The planes cutting through the landscape bound and open up the basement accommodation, including the sunken amphitheatre to the rear, and rise through the building to support the ‘kite roof’. To achieve such a form the only option above ground was to use a steel structure. The wrap-around plane achieved a massive cantilever, for an earthquake zone, as the entire floor is essentially acting as a beam.
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The house is designed as a retreat from one perspective, but also importantly as an entertaining villa, for visiting friends but also, importantly, business gatherings who can arrive via the rear helipad, or under the pool waterfall and into the front courtyard, which has enough space to accommodate eight guest cars under cover plus three garaged, owner cars. The house provides: • • • •
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6 bedrooms, with 3 large double rooms with walk-in wardrobes (and his and hers bathrooms with free standing baths), plus 3 hotel-style doubles with ensuites. A huge lounge with bar, plus a drawing room reception space, also with bar, both facing the front pool terrace. An open plan dining space to seat 16, with an open kitchen which is double sided so also serves the rear terrace area (which is more of an intimate summer dining space and includes a grotto jacuzzi and sunken fire area in the immediate garden space to the rear). A basement with huge support spaces including gym, sauna, steam, exercise pool, office, humidor, wine cellar, along with generous staff quarters.
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London Art’otel Competition Submission for Park Plaza Flagship Art’otel, Hoxton, Central London Park Plaza wished to launch a new brand of hotels in culturally and artistically significant sites across the world. Their first site was to be this significant corner at the gateway to Shoreditch, Hoxton and Hackney in Central London. These are hubs of artistic activity with Saatchi’s White Cube gallery five minutes walk away and the area being well known for street art, with one large Banksy piece on site, and being Gilbert & George, Tracy Emin and Amy Winehouse’s haunt, amongst many notable other artists. A culturally and physically striking response was required, whilst respecting the conservation area (defined by its art and crafts and contemporary art history). The proposed ‘Art Vortex’ tower consists of a 350 hotel room spiral enclosing an inner public gallery and events space, hung within the room spiral and breaking through it at ground, mid and high levels (providing a variety of public viewing spaces.) The spiral form was developed to address a very prominent and dynamic corner site on Old Street, a main artery to East London flanked by tall buildings, and Great Eastern Street, an area of older, lower scale, 19th century light industrial prestigious building stock. Influences were varied but significantly the Guggenheim and Flat Iron buildings in New York. The spiral has two skins; the outer forming a glazed acoustic baffle and the inner enclosing the rooms with a semi transparent skin of surface artwork (over curtain walling). A spiral ramp connects the public areas at the heart of the building.
Competition Submision 2009 The design came an unofficial second in the competition to Michael Squire, who won with a perforated copper drum scheme, going all-in with a full animation showing the opening on millennium night. Foster & Partners and Make were other competitors.
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The concept began from wanting to create an overwhelmingly ‘public building’ at such a significant site, which could support a large art gallery and community art studios whilst harmoniously providing the hotel accommodation, to suit tourists and business people alike (being very near to the City of London). The building needed to be large enough to accommodate the requirements, but additionally had to deal with the scale of the 19th century five storey conservation area buildings, heading south from the building (to the right of the ‘front’.) I formulated an idea whereby the core of the building would be the gallery, encircled by rooms, with glass walls separating the private and public. To address the changes in scale of the surrounding buildings, I developed the spiral form, starting low at the conservation area buildings on Great Eastern Street and rising higher to address the larger context on the expansive Old Street, with its extensive public space. The first opening in the spiral would align with the cornice of the conservation buildings.
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Just as street art and exhibitions are forever changing I wanted the building to be able to metamorphose into different apparitions over the years. Gilbert & George had just opened an exhibition of new work nearby at the time we were looking at the project. Their art is one of subversive, local, cultural observation so I thought this would be ideal for the first facade, along with its bold graphic nature. Opposite is the final test for the facade artwork - a composition of Gilbert & George pieces. Unintentionally it looks very Surrealist! As the site was such a noisy corner we proposed a glass outer skin noise baffle, and an inner glass facade which would have the artwork applied to it. As this was enclosed it could be changed easily and waterproofing it would not be an issue (making it more flexible). The occupants of the rooms would thus be looking through translucent artwork to the city, and be able to use the space between the clear glass and artwork skins as dramatic, fully glazed ‘winter balconies’. Beyond the conceptual, in terms of the hotel and gallery accommodation functionality, the building bulges at the lower to mid levels to give enough space for the central art gallery. It then closes above the gallery with a roof garden, where the spiral tightens to reduce the mass of the building at high level. This contraction and the spiral form create fully exposed balconies with views over the city at mid level, and then at high level even larger ones for the prestige rooms.
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London Business School Expansion of Main Campus, Regents Park, London, UK London Business School is ranked as one of the best business schools in the world. Having been involved with the School as annual works architect, for around one million pound annual extensive building contracts, on joining Scott Brownrigg I brought together a team to be part of a limited competition, to tackle doubling the campus capacity to meet trend growth, whilst maintaining its current programmes. The School was keen to cement their position as the pre-eminent global business school by building an iconic building with inspirational spaces, including an auditorium at its heart to accommodate the entire expanded student body (in excess of 1,000 people.) The space was conceived to further entice major speakers whilst also acting as a day-to-day student forum area. The primary challenge was the tight site consisting of a Grade 1 listed Nash terrace facing Regents Park and a Grade 2 listed Regency terrace to its rear, facing the main entrance on Park Road (leading to Baker Street.)
Competition Submission 2006 The design came an unofficial second in the competition to Sheppard Robson. Fosters, Arup, CF Moller and AHMM were other competitors.
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To be frank, the brief seemed impossible to achieve when I first sat down to consider the design. How do you double the size of a campus when two thirds of the site is occupied by listed buildings, you cannot build in the front garden area facing the Park and the School wishes to retain it’s ‘green heart’ quadrangle spaces between the two terraces? My first idea was to ‘float’ volumes above and between the quads and terraces, but with the planning height restrictions it was impossible to achieve the floor areas required. I sat down with the team, trying to assess the problem, and I drew a join the dots diagram, identifying what we strategically needed to achieve if we were to build between the terraces – to softly join to the existing outer wall circulation points as delicately as possible, to provide connections to the existing circulation (as we had no room for creating another level of circulation in the new building.) Moving from left to right on the page, intuitively I solved the problem - creating a wave of accommodation between the terraces, joining to all the existing circulation ‘soft spots’. The ‘Wave’ was born.
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A steel portal frame structural solution, on precast concrete supports, was developed with Buro Happold to ensure fast construction on a tight site, and to create large, free span, easily serviced spaces. This solution also facilitated the leaning facade, with the curtain wall also acting as truss frame, to facilitate large spans. The pre-cast concrete plank floor structure would be left exposed, with all servicing left to the deep, raised floor above. This enabled the floor’s thermal mass to assist in heat and cool retention and thus inherently manage energy usage.
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Of the three open spaces created between the Wave and existing buildings, two are left open-air to provide gardens, whilst the central area, on the central terrace axis, is covered by a free-span glazed roof, creating the ‘heart’ congregation area. Large presentations could take place here, using the large ground floor area plus ‘wave floors’ as overlooking balconies, accommodating 1000+ people. From the central heart space students can descend under the Nash terrace and enter the new Library, housed under the Nash formal gardens, where a simple, conceptual ‘tweak’ of tilting the central circular lawn allows light into the spaces below. To retain the open air character of the quad space as far as possible, and to allow the Wave to be clearly expressed, making as light a roof as possible to contain ‘the heart space’, was very important. With Buro Happold I developed the idea of a structural glass roof, with V shaped glass beams and stainless steel support gutters. This enabled us to create a very transparent solution, meeting the existing building window grid with the gutters and creating a roof which could be easily cleaned and maintained.
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Flow House ‘Future Vision Housing’ International Ideas Competition 2000 This ideas competition was launched inviting architects to consider the future of housing in the new millenium, with the backdrop of the sudden acceleration of use of the internet moving into every home and beginning to encroach on living in fashions which were only just beginning to become apparent. Beyond science fiction, what would this mean for living and homes? To tackle the question of future living my collaborator Simon Bird and I started with a precept that not only the impact of the internet and general communication technology should be considered, but that also the question of ‘what environment’ should be responded to, and also the impact of the encroachment of building services on our building’s spaces. With regard to the question ‘what environment?’ we wondered whether the home should be considered as a space of inhabitation on-line, in ‘avatar space’, and were interested in how we could begin to design a home from this start point, a virtual home, and then integrate servicing realities and gravity into the equation, and see if this could answer the question of what a home would be in the new century. If people began to inhabit their virtual homes with more intensity and frequency in the virtual world would this not lead to attempting to replicate this inthe real world, in order to achieve a psychological comfort factor? Just as the space race in the 50s led to ‘space-age’ homes and cars woudl it not be likely that people would want to draw the ‘internet-age’ into their modes of living? Considering the ever-expanding servicing levels on a building, and the huge percentage cost of M&E in each development, with the building generally becoming a thin veneer to hide the services (or for buildings like the Pompidou Centre to ‘reject’ the services to the exterior) could we envisage an architecture which was entirely made up of services, which completely omittted ‘normal’ fabric, a ‘flow house’?
Will the homes of the future encompass the programme of the real and virtual which makes up our contemporary lives? How will we inhabit within existing infra structures when there are no longer traditional spaces to occupy. This project aimed to set up a programme of space creation through the organisation of both vitual and physical flows (M&E ‘physical’/ data ‘virtual’) puhed to the point where spaces are encompassed and formed by service paths only, through sites which are gaps in existing fabric, parasitcially overtaken to serve the increased service demand and consequently organised to create new spaces which question the traditional concepts of live/work, public/private and built form itself.
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The design began by using an almost genetic conceptual template - two pure rings of flow, one to house the public communication flow, and the other to house the private service flow. The form means the most efficient use of services as envelope, and that they are readily available at all points; ‘plenums’.The rings are then simply conjoined, to create a transfer point. The form is then compressed, streamlined and smoothed, to form an interior of good proportion for two people’s habitation. Each side of the rings is split into two, so for the private side into sleeping and living and for the public side into meeting and viewing, and the transfer point is modelled to suit development of these spaces. The ring apertures become points of connection to ring shell surfaces and the master comms and fluid service grid; ‘sockets’.
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Once we had developed the virtual flow-house unit we replicated and linked it at various densities, without gravity and the constraints of the real world, from detached to suburban (main image here) to urban density (first page image), so as to form communites of the ‘pods’. We unravelled the public zone to become the conduit for public movement, of information and virtual individuals, to form communication surfaces. Virtual fluid pipes were threaded between the pods. As such we created an interplay between units to identify a form of public space.
The final step was to transition this virtual form into the real world, and explore the resultant spaces and opportunities. Shown here is ‘plugging the system’ into the rear of an office block. What is apparent is the formation of micro-living pods parasitically attached to the existing building, creating a system whereby pre-fabricated units could be attached to buildings whilst allowing the existing building to ‘breathe’, due to the minimal volume of the attached pods, while allowing open micro-living to go on outside - maybe a blueprint for the city when all space is exhausted - a parasitic but open ‘new modular architecture’, blurring the boundary between real and virtual.
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Peckham Interchange London-Southwark Mixed Use Development - Europan Competition 2001 The competition brief for this tram and bus interchange, associated with a new civic and extensive mixed-use town centre focal development, asked for a programme of extreme density which could not be delivered without overlapping and interweaving programmes, due to the tight site and height restrictions. The design was developed as a programme of zones of varying speeds, and involved from a process of subtration of an overall allowable site mass, to achieve minimal comfortable circulation spaces in relation to site context and use criteria, and creating the required volumes/floor areas. The form was then articulated to relate to the ‘speed’ of axis and circulation avenues and pathways, distorting the inter-weaved accommodation blocks and opening up spaces within the development to give appropriately sized public and semi-public courtyards and squares. The resulting form was then dynamised and further interconnected via the introduction of landscape surfaces at low level and event pods at high level, sat within floating garden frames, which were then further developed and sculpted to create ambiguous in-between spaces, connecting the development and allowing for random and unexpected collisions between typically separated activities - creating smaller open spaces where people from different ‘buildings’ could initially take work-breaks and get fresh air during the working day, and where un-foreseen programmes could happen in the future. The scheme is a micro city, with it’s own mini town hall which controls the further development of the community, expanding and contracting the in-between spaces as the buildings’ uses develop and change. The town hall is raised, to increase security, from a point of view of activity and overlooking, but opened up to the surrounding area via the high level landscape surfaces, filtering down to ground level.
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Walter Gropius’ Amathus Extensive refurbishment of classic hotel in Limassol, Cyprus The refurbishment of this Walter Gropius designed 5 star hotel in Limassol covered extensive internal, façade and terrace space changes. Along with a floor of bedrooms and the conference suite and gym, the 5 key areas of interiors work were the Reception, Lobby, Nu-Bar, Cyan and Rotisserie Restaurants. The starting point was to analyse the building’s form and Gropius’ abstract used as the hotel’s logo. From this we understood that, like many Modernist designs, it was characterised by formal plays on balance, equilibrium, permanence and stability. I wanted to use a Modernist approach, akin to Mondrian, of creating a neutral backdrop with balanced abstract material accents. In Greek philosophy the harmony of natural elements was described as a function of 5 classical elements: Earth, Water, Air, Fire and Ether. Ether, the fifth element, is classically the ‘void’ or neutral connecting element. We had 5 spaces, which needed to be connected and balanced through the neutral cathedral-like central lounge space. The design inspiration fell into place from this point. The reception is a place of transition from tropical garden to cool Air, and is defined by abstract garden colours juxtaposed with a neutral backdrop. The striking, zesty purple glass entrance cube and opposing lime green glass panels are juxtaposed with the neutral ‘frozen’ frosted back-lit glass cladding to the raw concrete columns and a reflective backdrop of black marble and glass, the overall composition being very Mondrian-esque. This leads to the project centre piece, the Ether lounge; an imposing space with huge Murano glass chandeliers, which were the only non-fixed elements retained. It is the neutral void space, a place of transparency and reflections where the horizon and sky penetrate the building; a place of permanent evolution as the sky and sea change their mood and balance. The tired curtain wall was replaced with a beautifully simple structural glass and steel screen. The concrete structure was completely revealed and sand-blasted. Flooring was replaced with highly polished black marble, creating amazing reflections of the palms, sea and simple contemporary furnishings and fittings, giving the impression of one seamless continuum between interior and exterior. The elements of Earth, Water, Air and Fire guide guests through the restaurant and bar space, from the central Ether space. A 30m illuminated backlit onyx wall draws guests to the onyx fronted main bar. The leather panelled wall behind the bar and grain parquet flooring completes the Earth space.
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Chelsea Bridge Wharf Landmark Mixed-use Development - Residential, Hospitality & Commercial - Central London, UK Adjacent to Chelsea Bridge and the iconic Battersea Power Station, phases one to five provide 1,126 luxury and affordable apartments, the four star Pestana Hotel and over 5,574 sq m (60,000 sq ft) of office and retail space and a new health and fitness club, for the client Berkley Homes. Phase six will convert existing office space into further residential apartments. From the first phase the project was designed in accordance with Lifetime Homes, EcoHomes (now Code for Sustainable Homes) and BREEAM and has won a host of awards including Best Social Housing Award, Best Planning, Built Project, Best Interior Design Award, Best Landscaped Development and has achieved a CABE Building for Life standard. The development continues to set standards of excellence within the industry. I was the project architect for Phase 5; the horseshoe at the South, away from the river, incorporating luxury and affordable apartments, the hotel and the main office area.
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Alassa Golf Golf Resort Development - Limassol, Cyprus A proposal for a new 18 hole, Championship Golf Course and resort located on a mountainous site approximately 10km North West of Limassol, directly north of the Kouris Dam/Reservoir and the Alassa village. Currently in the design stage, the development includes a golf course Club House, 80 bedroom 5* Hotel and spa, luxury tourist village with associated amenities, and private residential units comprising of integrated apartments and detached villas. The design strategy is to retain the character of the mountainous terrain and buildings and reinforce this, creating a number of areas of different character connected by long standing paths and routes. The hotel and tourist village occupy the highest and most prominent part of the site in the North, capitalising on the views Southwards over the new golf course and out over the reservoir towards the sea. The tourist village units and integrated residential units nestle into the mountain-side, stepping down into and overlooking a landscaped garden of pools and lawns at the base of the valley. The detached residential parcels are set in zones of different character using existing site characteristics, routes, paths, terraces and slope gradient to define their boundaries.
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Landmark Bucaresti Mixed-Use Development - Central Bucharest, Romania This is a complex central Bucharest site, within an embassy and mansion district scattered with a variety of historic and charming buildings. An innovative masterplanning and regeneration approach was therefore required to not only respect the site but also provide a considerable new volume of retail, office and high end residential spaces. The concept was to thread a block of new accommodation through the site and a retained central spine of the best existing buildings, splitting the site into four public and private zones, addressing the two key street areas. The new sinuous crystaline form reacts to two pedestrian axis and creates two private gardens and a large public market and events space, plus a retail node where the new form flows through the old at the centre of the site. The new facades flow fluidly, reacting to neighbouring and retained buildings and orientation, stretching, expanding, contracting, opening and closing, to create dynamic external and internal spaces. Interiors use a language of red marbles and timber, reflecting the verancular, juxtaposed with contemporary finishes.
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Amphora Resort Hospitality Resort Development - Hotel & Villas/Apartments - Paphos, Cyprus I led the masterplanning, architecture and interior designer for this hotel and time-share development currently under construction. The development, on a coastal site totalling 40,000 sq m (430,560 sq ft), consists of a 75 room hotel, 70 time-share units comprising a mix of one, two and three bedroom apartments and villas, a large spa, restaurants and retail areas. The masterplanning and interior design drew its inspiration from the historical use of the site, being the prior headquarters of a wine-making cooperative. The landscaped terraces are reminiscent of vineyard terraces, colours are drawn from crisp white, soft red and ruby red wines, trellises and pergolas form the structure for climbing plants and the shape of an historic wine silo forms the basis of one of the speciality restaurants.
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Evia Olympic Resort Olympic Training Resort Development - Evia, Greece We were commissioned to design a concept for a sports training resort on a mountainous site on the island of Evia, which is Greece’s second largest island located to the East of Central Greece. The accommodation required was extensive, to suit an entire country’s summer sports team, and included facilities for football, tennis, basketball, indoor hockey, judo, gymnastics, fencing, table tennis, an Olympic size indoor swimming pool, equestrian centre, all-weather pitches, and a wellness spa and beauty centre - all supported by a four hundred bedroom hotel. The entire development, which is car-free, was designed to merge into the landscape, so buildings and facilities were set into the hillside, many with grass roofs. The client was very keen to respect the beautiful mountain site, as was I. The project started as a major masterplanning exercise, using 3d modeling to set the buildings into the site. My role was leading the design and masterplan team, 3d modeling the new site ground form to suit each building, and then addressing the design and concept for the integrated hotel in detail, on which the following focuses. A client aspiration was to set the buildings comfortably and effortlessly into the mountain, so the development appeared very ‘soft touch’. This led to ideas of creating an organic hotel, both in terms of the integration and also the interior arrangements. I began to think about how athletes are understandably obsessed with the functioning of their bodies, and pulling every last ounce of performance from it. I wondered whether we could make a hotel which was similarly efficient and fluid, and almost alive; a living thing with almost biological flow and movement. Looking back on the first sketches, they are almost reminiscent of Da Vinci drawings, showing what I was aiming for in the ‘anatomical’ dissection of the hotel’s function.
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The hotel sits into the hillside and works on the basis of a single aspect wing set into the hill, with a dual aspect wing projecting from it, housing the suites in a ‘bulb’ at its end. The hillside flows over the top to form a roof. The overall impression I was looking for was ‘as if the hill had been lifted up to fit in the hotel’. The rooms and their balconies with solar shades were all to be framed in timber, to give a very warm, natural exterior.
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The sketch plans and exploded model here show the functioning of the hotel, with the central reception bulb at ground floor next to the drop off roundabout allowing users to access their rooms immediately or flow quickly right to the ground floor dining room, with its pool terrace, or down a gentle ramp into the extensive gym, spa and treatment rooms at basement level. The basement accommodation nestles in a little valley, allowing views out to the mountains from all spaces. It was very important to make this area somewhere special, as this is a space of repair and conditioning for the athletes’ bodies. It is therefore not only a very fluid calming space with beautiful views, but it also has the drama of having a glass wall to the terrace pool above, so while athletes are in the gym they can enjoy top light through the pool and see swimmers from an unusual and interesting perspective.
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Iacovou Group HQ Major Contractor Headquarters - Larnaka, Cyprus We were appointed to design the new headquarters building for Iacovou; the largest construction company in Cyprus. Iacovou has a very strong brand, and wanted a building which was bespoke for them and expressed their identity inherently. Our starting point was to use the red I beam of the company logo to create a ‘Constructivist’ proposal, expressing their identity and also allowing them to show off their construction skills within their own building. Beyong the visual and material, the building has a central atrium with a heavy concrete roof perforated with circular glass block ‘tiles’, supported by red I beams, and three wings of office accommodation planned on 1.5×1.5 planning grids, to accommodate the staff within three grey ‘mega-beams’.
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‘The Ark’ Condo-Hotel Hotel & Serviced Apartments Dev. - Paphos, Cyprus The proposed development is located on a prominent coastal parcel of land in the city of Paphos, with site area of 26,076 square meters. The project comprises two complementary but independent buildings; a five star condo hotel, that will benefit from the creation of a marina, and a luxury residential apartment building. The five star condo hotel has 240 rooms and suites on six levels, plus 84 Condo luxury apartments on eight levels facing the sea. The hotel is designed with an organic aesthetic and geometry, responding to the site form and adjacent harboured boat forms, around an open air courtyard and an enclosed atrium. The main restaurant and bar benefit from the elevated terrace overlooking the gardens , the sea and the marina. Outside the atrium and around the perimeter of the landscaped open courtyard will be located a number of quality retail offerings, which will benefit from the hotel as well as the passing visitors along the main coastal avenue. On top of the atrium is a further swimming pool and roof gardens for the exclusive use of the condo apartments, which will provide the owners with a dramatic bathing experience . The apartment building is is located to the rear part the site, with an aesthetic and geometry to complement the architecture of the hotel. The building is also designed around a open courtyard with a landscaped perimeter ‘mount’ concealing the parking facilities for the flat owners. An extra basement level for parking below the building is also provided. The seven levels of residential accommodation will contain 126 apartments (18 per level).
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Royal Ballet School - Floral Street New headquarters and upper school training and schooling facilities - Covent Garden, London, UK
Our brief was to provide a new home for the school in the heart of covent garden next to and linked to the Royal Opera House, accommodating 5 dance studios and a variety of academic and administrative spaces, and retail units for rent at ground floor. The scheme incorporates two existing Grade II listed buildings and a large, new build five storey element sandwiched between them. Our role was as the strategic designers, including for the ‘bridge of aspiration’ linking the new building to the Opera House, then as client’s agent for the shell construction, then as architect and interior designer for the fit-out. Although we developed the strategic concept for the link-bridge we were not able to take this further due to conflicts of interest, but we project managed this element, including being on the judging panel who awarded the link design to Wilkinson Eyre. The School was opened by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II on 25th March 2003.
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No Place Like Home Public Space Installation Series - London Dr Ivana Wingham and I launched a series of week-long research installation projects between November 2009 and February 2010, at Scott Brownrigg’s gallery in Covent Garden, supported by our employers Scott Brownrigg and the University of Brighton and several participating academics, architects and artists. The project ‘No Place Like Home’ explored the design of public spaces through experimental installation projects that engaged the architectural community, academics and the public. Each installation focused on one of four European cities, Athens, London, Tallinn and Milan, exploring how reactions to history, personal or public boundaries, narratives and cultural pre-conceptions might be used as design inspiration to transform a public space. In times of global economy, global networking and global architecture, the installations examined our specific, individual encounters with these global cities. As the Italian artist Vito Acconci commented about such personal experience: “public space is leaving home’. The series of installations were: 02 Nov-06 Nov 2009
‘Temporary Urban Garden’ with Dr Ivana Wingham, academic and architect in collaboration with Dr Roderick Lumsden, IT consultant
30 Nov-04 Dec 2009
‘Public Space Privacy’ with Angus Leadley Brown, photographer
11Jan-15 Jan 2010
‘Shadow-Memories’ with Reet Aus, fashion and theatre designer, and Ville Hyvönen, cross-disciplinary media-artist
08 Feb-12 Feb 2010
‘Territories of Misbehavior’ with Frank O’Sullivan, academic and architect, presenting a collaboration between University of Brighton and Milan Polytechnic
A lecture and debate evening, in relation to each installation, took place on the Thursday evening of each installation week to discuss the issues raised by the installations and the week’s public commentary. The series was very well received by academics and the public alike, and was hugely enjoyable. This unusual project’s success led to Ivana and I being published in Blueprint magazine’s ‘25 Who Will Change Architecture in 2010’ article.
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Temporary Urban Garden In the first installation Dr Ivana Wingham explored demarcations in public space in Athens, focusing on the city’s rooftops. Public space occupation in the ancient city of Athens is closely linked to the history of the city and mythical festivals. In this multi-media installation, project clues from a Greek myth and the presence of female sexuality in Mediterranean images, and smells of spices, are transferred and translated into a critical proposal – a temporary urban garden. The project evokes boundaries of occupation in the past and the present city of Athens using visual animations, gentle physical topography and recreations of particular smell sensations.
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Public Space Privacy Public Space Privacy explored the relationship between buildings and their public-frontage spaces, and how the buildings impose on their public space, particularly in the City of London. Photographer Angus Leadley-Brown created a two-way dialogue with private building security cameras - by photographing them and at the same time filming the scenes behind these photographs, often to comic effect. The final piece was a composite of a night time view of a building in the City superimposed on a day time view, altering the perception of the relationship between the building and the public space.
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Tallinn Shadow Memory Tallinn Shadow Memory was led by Estonian fashion designer Reet Aus and Ville Hyvรถnen, a cross-disciplinary media-artist. Aus is well-regarded for her pioneering work in creating high fashion through recycling, upcycling and reusing. She has worked extensively in theatre and is particularly interested in the relationship between (recycled) costume and the space it inhabits. Through a bold interactive exhibition that employs miniature LED video projectors, Shadow Memory addresses the potential of creating new public space in the historical context of Tallinn. Real-time projections generate ghostly moving images digitally reconstructed from historical images of the costume, people and places of medieval Tallinn. Subtle images are visible in the shadows that the visitors themselves create inside the public space.
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Territories of Misbehaviour The fourth installation addressed two paradoxes inherent in architectural and spatial design: The first is the tendency to base design development around predictions of the future use of yet-to-be constructed space. These predictions are made in the certain knowledge that the architect or designer has no power to determine who may do what, in a yet-to-be realised space. The second issue concerned the apparently straightforward distinction between the practice of architecture and the design of interiors, even though there is no consensus as to where the interior space ends and something else, like the city, nature or public space, begins. The installation was based around the design and fabrication of a number of flexible constructions. These adaptable, mobile, flexible structures were designed to be capable of three modes of occupation (Refuge, Installation and Communication) in three specified locations. The installation was led by Frank O’Sullivan and MA ID Studio in collaboration with M Des Textiles at the University of Brighton, in conversation with colleagues at the MA Interior Design department at the Politechnico Di Milano.
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Beyond Home Public Space Installation - Cyprus Continuing the theme of the ‘No Place Like Home’ installations, in 2012 I teamed up with local urbanist-architect Lora Nicolaou to run a summer ‘Catalyst’ special-programme at the University of Nicosia in 2012, with a team of fifteen undergraduate architectural students. The concept was three-fold; to celebrate the Republic’s European Council Presidency with a special architectural event; to build a perforate-wall installation without boundaries next to the ‘Green Line’ (separating the two communities cut off by war at a time of potential reconciliation); and to again engage between public and architects in forming a temporary public intervention by creating an event space and temporary building; all from nothing more than cardboard boxes and lighting! We found the perfect site - Phaneromenis Square in the centre of Nicosia’s old Venetian walled city - a hip area with lots of vibrancy and pedestrian through-traffic - and we negotiated using the Church’s area of the square for one week. I designed a cardboard brick, to form the structural module for the honeycomb wall construction, and had it manufacturered, flat-pack. We then told the students about the possibilities of a simple intervention, making an event, and the ‘power of the brick’ via the classic quote of Louis Kahn: ‘What do you want to be, brick?” I gave them an idea of how the ‘building’ may come together, how the cardboard brick could work structurally, the power of the brick as the original modular material, and what it’s limitations would likely be in this material, and we then, together, began designing and building the final installation. The whole process of building the installation drew a lot of attention, and the local primary school asked whether they could decorate the bricks with infilled paintings. We of course said yes! A German film crew from ARD TV who happened to be in the city started recording the progress of our ‘build’, as did the local media. The installation was publicised and opened on a Saturday night. The student’s final design provided a kind of amphitheatre, in which a local jazz band performed, and a sinous bar space and bar. The square filled with people and it was hugely interesting to see how people of all ages interacted with our temporary building, and to see how we had transformed this church yard into something completely different for one evening of celebration. One of my best memories of the evening was having a student tell me that now he understood the power of architecture to transform, via even the smallest of gestures.
The project was made possible through the sponsorship of Scott Brownrigg, Psarras Construction, J.C.Haggipavlou & Son Ltd, Nice Day Developments, ETEK and other generous donors.
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Biography I was born in London, England. My school years were spent in Salisbury, a cathedral city and market town near Stonehenge in the South of England, but with some time abroad due to my father’s vocation as a chocolate/fermentology biotechnologist; firstly in Mumbai, India, and secondly Vevey, Switzerland (attending a local French speaking school.) In 1992, I began my architectural training at the University of Manchester, later to become the Manchester School of Architecture, being lucky to catch a heyday period of the School and the city of Manchester itself. I graduated in 1999 and was elected as a corporate member of the Royal Institute of British Architects in 2000 (under the presentation and signature of Marco Goldschmeid, RIBA President and co-founder of the Richard Rogers Partnership.) In 1995, I began my in-practice training working for John McCall Architects in the Peak District of Derbyshire, primarily working on large housing schemes and 18th century cotton mill residential conversions. In 2001 I moved to London and joined Westwoods Architects; Royal Crown Estate nominated architects, and specialists in conservation and education. Whilst with Westwoods I worked on projects for the prestigious Royal Ballet School, London Business School and Alleyn’s School, along with various large and small, social and prestige, residential projects in the role of Associate Director. In 2005 I was invited to join the international London-based practice Scott Brownrigg, working on large education and residential projects initially until moving to the International & Hospitality Projects team, working on projects in Cyprus, Greece, Romania and India, as an Associate and Shareholder. In 2010 I was asked to move to Cyprus to manage operations on the island and in the Eastern Mediterranean market for the practice, and was promoted to the position of Director in 2012. In 2013 our Cyprus-office management team bought out that section of the business and formed a new practice - Panos Panayiotou + Associates - my position being equity partner and statutory Director. PP+A is now the pre-eminent and largest practice on the island, and continues to grow from strength to strength, with a strong design and commercial philosophy driving the business. Career highlights have been winning the massive Larnaka Port & Marina Redevelopment Project competition/concession in 2008, being recognized as one to ‘change architecture and design’ by Blueprint Magazine in 2009 and winning the Lord Byron high-rise development competition in 2010.
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Contact alunmoreton@gmail.com
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