AZANI TALHAH
ARCHITECTURAL PORTFOLIO
ONE-TWELVE MANCHESTER STREET
One-Twelve Manchester Street is a concept design for a four-storey commercial office space that creates a strong visual impression by reinterpreting the ornamented and detailed heritage facade as a detailed and modern geometric form.
The front facade is clothed with a patterned zinc rain screen. The zinc cladding is conceptualised as a modern reinterpretation of the neighbouring heritage facade implementing different sized panels and custom geometrical patterns which creates details that interacts delicately with the evening sun as the day passes.
One-Twelve Manchester Street
One-Twelve Manchester Street
Concrete walls are used as a means of creating a border that divides the interior space of the building from the external factors of the city. Implemented in the front street facing facade, a concrete wall divides a naturally lit open space that is fully separated from the city's environment.
The structural system consists of three main components. The main structural system is the precast concrete walls, collumns and beams itself that is used throughout the building. These concrete elements provide excellent strenght and stability for the building while also transferring loads directly down to the ground.
One-Twelve Manchester Street
One-Twelve Manchester Street
One-Twelve Manchester Street
One-Twelve Manchester Street
One-Twelve Manchester Street
One-Twelve Manchester Street
The repeated angled concrete collumns also allows the building to have good resistance toward lateral forces from earthquake. This aspect allows the building to be built without the need of additional cross bracing. These angled concrete collumns are also the structural elements that are supporting the upper floor systems.
The triangle structural collumns are based on the idea of a truss where two force members are organised in such a way that the assembly behaves as a whole or as a single object.
One-Twelve Manchester Street
One-Twelve Manchester Street