DY Patil University Centre of Excellence, Navi Mumbai, IN 030
Shek O Residence, Hong Kong, HK 042
425 Park Avenue, New York,US 062
Musée Narbo Via, Narbonne, FR 074
House of Wisdom, Sharjah, AE 084
Le Dôme Saint-Émilion,Winery,FR 094
Samson Pavilion and Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, US 114
UAE Pavilion, Milan Expo, Milan, IT; Masdar, AE 126
Apple Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, US 136
Maggie’s Manchester, Manchester, GB 146
Redevelopment of Marseille Vieux-Port, FRe Vieux-ort, FR 162
Appendix
FR 168
Imprint
007
Preface 052
Structural Egineering 104
Integrated Design Through Time 154
Sustainability in Construction 008
Lusail Towers, Lusail City, QA 018
DY Patil University Centre of Excellence, Navi Mumbai, IN 030
Shek O Residence, Hong Kong, HK 042
425 Park Avenue, New York, US 062
Musée Narbo Via, Narbonne, FR 074
House of Wisdom, Sharjah, AE 084
Le Dôme Saint-Émilion,Winery,FR 094
Samson Pavilion, CWRU and Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, US 114
UAE Pavilion, Milan Expo, Milan, IT; Masdar, AE 126
Apple Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, US 136
Maggie’s Manchester, Manchester, GB 146
Redevelopment of Marseille Vieux Port, Marseille, FRe Vieux-ort, FR 164
Appendix
Lusail Towers, Lusail City, QA
Lusail Towers in Lusail City
Envisioned as the catalyst for a new central business district in Lusail City with a distinctive collection of four highrise buildings, Lusail Towers is a landmark project in Qatar. The 1.1 million square metre (11.8 million square foot) development, managed by Qatari Diar, will be home to the headquarters for the Qatar National Bank, Qatar Central Bank and Qatar Investment Authority alongside several other global organisations including Qatari Diar, while reating a new downtown district that is attentive to the climate. The project is part of a larger master plan also designed by Foster + Partners, which was substantially completed ahead of the 2022 FIFA World Cup.
Located at the end of the commercial boulevard linking the new football stadium to the Corniche, the two taller towers stand at 70 storeys, while the other two stand at 50 storeys. The four towers are arranged symmetrically around a central plaza seeking to complement the existing public spaces in Lusail. At the base, a network of three, four and five storey podium buildings surround each tower. Providing support facilities for the towers with shops, cafes, events and exhibition space, gym facilities, training facilities, banks and restaurants, these buildings animate the public realm and are carefully placed to form human-scale streets and a shaded, pedestrian-friendly ground plane. The plaza contains a new metro station with pedestrian links to the towers above and access to several event spaces that draw life to the waterfront.
The project is an exemplar of Foster + Partners’ integrated approach to design. The practice carried out the architectural and environmental design alongside structural and MEP engineering for the entire project and is also working on the fitout of a significant portion of the buildings. This unique approach was crucial in delivering a complex project with a demanding fast-track schedule for the World Cup.
The team deployed an in-house software system called Hermes to coordinate design data for the project and facilitate sharing of this data in real time across different applications, disciplines, organisations and locations around the world. Through specially created plug-ins for the different software ap-
plications used by architects, engineers and other consultants, design changes made by one group would automatically and instantly be available to the digital models being used by others.
The elliptical footprints of the towers morph through 90 degrees as they rise, gently shifting the viewing axis outward and offering stunning views of the surrounding city and waterfront. The structure remains symmetrical in plan and comprises a central concrete core surrounded by sixteen inclined columns around the perimeter. Wind tunnel tests were carried out early in the design process to inform the optimisation of the structure.
The tower facades – clad in marine-grade aluminium – are designed in response to the harsh sun with projecting profiles that wrap around the building, shading the glazing while preserving views out and daylight. The active systems design proposals include centralised thermal storage using innovative phase-change materials to reduce cooling energy; high-pressure hydronic systems to reduce pumping energy; demand-controlled ventilation to reduce fan energy; and efficient LED lighting and advanced automation controls that contribute to reducing the site energy demand by 35 percent when compared to a baseline building. In response to the increasing water conservation requirement, grey water, rainwater and condensate are recycled and reused on site for irrigation and toilet flushing, significantly reducing the demand for water. The Lusail Plaza Towers development targets 4 and 5 stars – the highest level in Qatar’s Global Sustainability Assessment System.
The podium buildings feature ultra-high performance concrete, lightweight and low-carbon moulded concrete panels, giving the buildings a high thermal mass, with minimal punched windows that reduce the amount of solar heat to the interior spaces. 20 percent of the site is covered with lush but drought-tolerant landscaping in which more than 70 percent of the species are native. The narrow, human-scale streets and shaded terraces create an inviting public realm at ground level, with the building blocks arranged around courtyards designed to capture cooling breezes.
UAE Pavilion, Milan Expo, Milan, IT; Masdar, AE
UAE Pavilion, Milan Expo in Milan, Masdar
The national pavilion for the United Arab Emirates occupied a large site close to the centre of the Milan Expo and was accessed via its main circulation axis, the decumanus. From here, visitors were drawn into the mouth of a canyon-like space, defined by two undulating 12-metre (39-foot) high walls. Influenced by ancient planning principles, the pavilion’s interior evoked the narrow pedestrian streets and courtyards of a traditional desert city and its contemporary reinterpretation in the sustainable Masdar master plan. Designed and engineered by the practice’s integrated team, the pavilion was conceived with two sites in mind: the initial Expo site in Milan and its eventual resting place in Masdar City.
The larger idea behind the national pavilion for the UAE was to explore how the built structure and the exhibits could reinforce each other throughout the visitors’ journey. From the time they enter the pavilion until the end, every element has been carefully designed and scripted such that the story and the building form a coherent whole. The high walls continued through the pavilion’s 140-metre (459-foot) site in a series of parallel waves, unifying the visitor spaces within a dynamic formal language designed to convey the ridges and texture of sand dunes.
A ramp leads gently upwards from the entrance towards the auditorium. Along this route, the irrigation aqueducts that have historically supported agriculture in the region are introduced in digital form. The path leads to a state-of-the-art auditorium, contained within a drum at the heart of the site. After the screening, visitors follow a route through further interactive displays and digital talks, including a special exhibit celebrating Dubai as host city for the 2020 Expo.
The exhibition trail culminates in a green oasis. Conveying a unique sense of place, the landscaping around the pavilion is designed to evoke the UAE’s terrain and flora, while the texture of the walls is derived from and architecturally reimagines a scan of dunes. The design uses the principles of LEED with a combination of passive and active techniques.
The pavilion addressed the 2015 Expo’s theme of ‘Feeding the Planet’ in different ways –
the journey starts by exploring the challenges and presenting possible solutions, before looking at the future. The aim was to educate visitors about some of the exciting sustainability initiatives in the UAE. The Foster + Partners’ design highlights the challenges of sustaining life in a desert climate, while demonstrating how efficient passive design solutions can help to support sustainable modern communities.
The pavilion needed to be designed for the climates, loads and coding requirements of both the Expo site in Milan and the final destination in Masdar City. This had a major impact on the overall design and the materials selected. The structure was deliberately clad in sand-coloured GRC panels, with the same design specifications as the Masdar Institute’s facade. These are supported by a demountable steel frame and prefabricated concrete floor structure, which has been demounted and shipped more than 7,000 kilometres (4,350 miles) to be reconstructed for the pavilion’s relocation in the UAE. The pavilion is now the headquarters of the UAE Space Agency in Masdar City.
1Experience
2Hospitality
3Lobby
4Exhibition
5Post
6Courtyard
7Private
8Offices
9Buisness
10Entrance
Redevelopment of Marseille Vieux Port, Marseille, FR
Section Scale 1:400
Redevelopment of Marseille Vieux Port
Marseille’s Vieux Port is one of the grand Mediterranean ports, but over time the World Heritage-listed site had become inaccessible to pedestrians and was cut off from the life of the city. The master plan for its regeneration reclaims the quaysides as a civic space, creating new informal venues for performances and events and removing traffic to create a safe, semi-pedestrianised public realm. Its transformation was one of a series of projects to be completed in time for the city’s inauguration as European Capital of Culture in 2013.
The technical installations and boat houses on the quays have been replaced with new platforms and clubhouses over the water, thus enlarging the space for pedestrians. The landscape design, which was developed with Michel Desvigne, includes a new pale granite surface, which echoes the shade of the original limestone cobbles. Planting is kept to a minimum in favour of hard-wearing, roughly textured materials appropriate to the port setting. The design eliminates kerbs and changes in level to improve accessibility, as well as using removable cast iron bollards to maximise flexibility.
Using very simple means, the space is enhanced with small, discreet pavilions for events, markets and special occasions. At Quai des Belges, the prominent eastern edge of the harbour, a dramatic blade of reflective stainless steel shelters a flexible new events area. Open on all sides, its 46-by-22-metre (151-by-72.2-foot) canopy, or ombrière, is supported by slender stainless steel columns, 6 metres (19.7 feet) high. Resulting from an integrated collaboration between Foster + Partners architects and structural engineers, the design resolved the structural and aesthetic challenges of maintaining a
slim profile while ensuring robustness to deflect the Mistral winds. Lateral stability is provided through frame action of the columns, which are fixed both at roof level and by the ground beams that connect the column bases. The roof tapers towards the edges to minimise its visual impact, the gutter is pulled away from the edge and the structure arranged to avoid a perimeter beam –from the water, it resembles nothing more than a simple line of silver on the horizon.
1 Micro-blasted
cover panels
2 Gutter
3 Return of mirror-polished stainless-steel underside panels
Layout of cover panels
Steel framework
1 Perforated stainless-steel gutter cover to prevent a build up of debris blocking the gutter connections
2 316L marine-quality stainless steel with a shot-peened matt finish on both sides of a 20 mm expanded foam core
3 Folded-plate gutter, draining to hollow-section circular steel columns
4 Bottom flange of fabricated secondary roof beams
5 Connection piece to allow for adjustment in position and level of the cladding panel
6 316L marine-quality stainless steel on both sides of a 20-mm expanded foam core Supermirror polished finish to visible face
7 The top flange of supporting structure extends past the bottom flange to achieve as thin a profile as possible
8 Composite stainless steel sandwich panel extends out from the end of the supporting structure to achieve the razor thin edge detail. Supermirror polished finished applied to all surfaces
9 Drip detail at extreme tip
Section Scale 1:10
Section Scale 1:20
1 Bolted connections to allow erection on site
2 Welded node at top of column
3 Rainwater gutter integrated within the depth of the cantilever structure
4 Fabricated primary steel beam that connects the columns together and acts like a moment frame, providing lateral stiffness
5 Tapered, fabricated steel cantilevers to support the cladding and provide a thin edge profile
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