AZANI TALHAH
ARCHITECTURAL PORTFOLIO
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This project is located on the corner of Manchester Street and Armagh Street. It is situated in the middle of surrounding Blueprint Projects such as The Performing Arts Precinct, The Convention Centre Precinct, the Avon River Precinct and adjacent from the site is the proposed Residential Green Frame Zone. With numerous hospitality providers and hotels close by, the site has a lot of potential to both contribute and gain from other local businesses.
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The proposal was to provide design and documentation for a new “mixed use” development on a chosen corner site on Christchurch’s CBD.
The proposed complex utilizes the site to its full potential commercially and was able to accommodate the following activities:
- Single retail spaces at Ground Floor level.
- Leasable Office space at First Floor level.
- Residential one and two bedroom apartments at Second Floor level.
- Covered Parking Areas (1 parking space per apartment).
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The main objective of this project was to carry out subsequent development of the design and fully develop the Preliminary Design stage in the form of documentation and reports. Therefore a substantial amount of documentation drawings was produced in order to establish feasable relationship (joining) between structural system and enclosure system, provisional air duct sizes or similar based on a selected Mechanical Ventilation System & Air conditioning system, provisional storm water reticulation system including pipe sizing considerations based on storm-water roof catchment areas and any proposed impervious areas, and egress requirements and escape routes based on Fire Design Strategy carried over from the previous stage of design.
As a result, this project allowed students to show the ability to interpret the information given and carry out technical design; produce the required set of documents meeting the brief and coherently describing the selected systems throughout the building demonstrating coherent development and understanding of the relationship between design, fire, structural & services engineering considerations including energy use.
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