Archive of all ‘Student Week 2’ posts from 2013/14
DALSTON JUNCTION RESIDENTIAL
Structural component. Used to construct the floors of the building. Steel reinforced concrete, horizontal, suspended slabs. Supported by load bearing walls and columns. 100 mm thick. Two-way flat plate, cast-in-place floor system.
2 FITZROY PLACE, Mortimer Street, Fitzrovia, London W1T
PROJECT INFO : Architect Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands / Shepphard Robson
Services Engineer AECOM
Structural Engineer Ramboll
Main Contractor Sir Robert McAlpine
BUILDING COMPONENT: roof, undulated shape, covering the
8th floor of the office spaces in bulding
2 Fitzroy Place
The elements are built out of precast reinforced white
concrete, with “teeth” that hold the glazed projecting
external glass fins; above, a photo of a similar fabrication
the elements are transported to the site, after being cured
in a stainless steel mould
London Roca Gallery
Architect – Zaha Hadid Architects
Engineer – Buro Happold, Max Fordham Consulting Engineers
Contractor – Empty, S.L.
Building Component – GRC / Fibre Reinforced Concrete
Material Properties
The exterior made of GRC / Fibre Reinforced Concrete had been pre-fabricated in moulds to be assembled and constructed on-site, spanning 2.20m in height. Fibre Reinforced Concrete allows for a simple yet cold expression for the façade, the façade itself made of 2 x 4m panels weighing 800kg each. This material, 6cm thick is made by two waffled concrete layers sandwiching a honeycomb mesh that allows for stretching in various directions, making it a robust composite material.
Riverside South, Canary Wharf:
Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners (Architect)
Yolles Partnership Ltd (Structural Engineer)
Canary Wharf Contractors Ltd (Main Contractor)
Bachy Soletanche (Contractor for Diaphragm wall)
ARUP (Consulting Engineer for Diaphragm wall)
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Project: Riverlight Residential Blocks, Nine Elms
Architect: Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners
Structural Engineer: Ramboll
Building component: Metal/steel structural frame with diagonal bracing
Material: Reinforced Concrete
The reinforced concrete is used as the main material to manufactured the floor plates, in the area of 620000 sq. feet. The floor plates (slab) are produced in the factory with the method of casting, before they are transferred to the site for assembling process.
Concrete is a mixture of coarse and fine aggregates with a paste of portland cement and water as a binder material. The material itself has a high degree of hardness, good thermal compatibility which will not cause unacceptable stresses in response to the change of temperatures and good durability that resists corrosion. However, low tensile strength and ductility are the main weaknesses of the material. By casting in reinforce components such as steel, it overcome the mentioned problems.