Lexus Showroom, Perth Architects: Cox Architects & Planners
The Showroom
The Workshop
The Administration Hub
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The Showroom (Public) The folded form embraces the showroom space with glazing to its perimeter to maximise exposure to passing traffic. The material palette and building detailing is restrained but crafted and aligned with the aesthetics of Lexus motor vehicle design.
The Showroom (Public) The circulation of the used cars showroom space on the outside addresses Scarborough Street. The circulation of the showroom is hung off a central spine or corridor. Public and private circulation feeds off the spine.
The Workshop (Semi-Private) The workshop facility is a robust ‘container’ element with a physical and visual connection to the showroom deliverately exposing the clean, efficient workshop operations.
The Workshop (Semi-Private) The circulation of the workshop is privately accessed by the private corridor. The flexible open space has a free circulation.
The workshop and administration hub are both conceived as enclose boxes. These two enclosed boxes become the backdrop that frames the showroom. The glazing is focused in the eastern corner side facing Scarborough street. The glazed strategy the showroom provides a strong visual connection to Scarborough Beach Road. Thus glazed facade allows the vehicle product to dominate the overall impression of the centre.
The Administration Hub (Public / Private) The extruded administration ‘black box’ is located adjacent to the main showroom and houses all administration staff and facilities.
The Administration Hub (Private) The administration hub consists of a main corridor where all the offices and meeting rooms feeds off. The public offices for negotiation are placed along the public central spine as it addresses the public.
The Centre has the flexibility for the showroom facility to convert to a function space for launching new vehicles and promotional events. A private showroom adjacent to a client cafe area allows the private delivery and handover of new vehicles. This comes in the form of the third box adjacent to the entrance.
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BMW Welt, Munich Architects: Coop Himmelb(l)au
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The space is enclosed on top by a seemingly ‘floating’ roof. The undulating roof is held up by 3 elements: reinforced concrete structure, columns and the double cone. Only a total of 11 columns (8 on the ground floor) are required to hold up the roof. The structure utilized the structural capacities of the reinforced concrete structure of the forum, tower and lounge, and the stiffness of the trussed double cone to buttress the truss system of the roof.
The double cone is conceived as a double helix form consisting of horizontal rings and two diagonals forming a total of 900 triangulated surfaces. All the steel used to construct the structure are rectangular hollow sections. The designer of the structure sized the spacing and the thickness of the structural elements in order to achieve a columnless space.
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Program The five main programmatic blocks are: - Hall - Premiere - Forum - Tower - Double Cone
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The Hall The Hall is where the exhibition and assembly occurs and is where the most used public space of the building. The Hall serves as the main circulation for the other functions. 1
The Premiere The Premiere is where the the main purpose of the BMW Welt occurs, the delivery of cars. It also consists of the exclusive lounge and customers lounge.
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The Forum The Forum is a seperate event area that can house up to 1200 pax. It consists of associated shops, small conference rooms and theatres. The Tower The Tower is the public interaction area. It includes restaurants, shops, junior campus and exhibition. The Double Cone The Double Cone is the event space coupled with exhiting function. It serves as the iconic element of the building.
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Circulation works around the free space formed by the main functions blocks. The main circulation spine meanders around the double cone, tower, premiere and forum from the entrance. The main entrance is located at the street front where the double cone is located. There are a total of 4 entrances in all directions of the building. The secondary circulatory paths branches off the meandering spine into the seperate functions.
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Roof space frame 260mm steel tube Sliding connection perforated stainless steel sheet 320/120 mm hollow-section steel 200/ 80 mm steel rail 50/ 60mm steel glass retainer
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Audi Lighthouse Terminal, Sydney Architects: Johnson Pilton Walker
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Structure
The showrooms of Audi Ligthouse Terminal can be conceived of as spaces being carved out of a volume. The ‘carved out’ spaces of the showroom takes up the corners of the building volume and acts as stages for the product to the cars along the highway. The other programs are located in the solid left behind by the voids of the showrooms. The opacity of the other spaces brings out the transparency of the showroom spaces.
The structural system ustilized in the Audi Lighthouse Terminal is crete post and beam construction. Two reinforced concrete cores height of the building. Two systems of column grids are designed. O showrooms, the columns are set back from the glazing to intensify t of the void. The same strategy cannot be carried out on the south due to the location of ramps.
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Program Apart from acting as a flagship showroom for Audi, the Audi Lighthouse Terminal also acts as the head office for Audi Australia. It consists of various programs such as workshops, &ORECOURT Audi shop, new cars showroom, used cars showroom etc. The stratification of programs .EW #AR 'ALLERY %NTRANCE (ALL allows the cross interaction between different range of staff.
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The rectangular volume of the Audi Lighthouse Terminal is designed with square being the primary geometry. The plan can be derived with four squares. The height of the building is set up in such a way that the same square is reflected on the facades. Likewise, the column grid is aligned with the square geometry. The rectilinear built form juxtaposes with the soft curves in the interior to heighten the dynamic effect of the curved walls.
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