Amricas 1500 / Sordo Madaleno Arquitectos

17:00 - 4 May, 2017

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Architects

Sordo Madaleno Arquitectos

Location

Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mxico

Founder Architect

Javier Sordo Madaleno Bringas

Architecture Leader

Javier Sordo Madaleno de Haro

Project Leader

Boris Pena

Area

57970.0 m2

Project Year

2017

Photographs

Rafael Gamo

Manufacturers
 Saint Gobain, Schindler, Constructa

Project Manager

Andrs Harfuch

Production Manager

Cndido Hernndez

Design Team

Juan Marn de la Plaza, Miguel Baranda, Abraham Graca, Luis. A Cabello

Engineering Coordination

Marcos Hernndez

Engineering Team

ADC Soluciones Integrales para la Construccin

Construction Coordination

ADC Soluciones Integrales para la Construccin

Media & Marketing

Rosalba Rojas, Maria Luisa Guzmn

Interior Design

Sordo Madaleno Arquitectos

Interior Director

Nadia Borrs, Enrique Ralph

Interior Team

Fernanda Patio
 Hotel Interior Design

Estudio AoMA

Structural Engineering

Luis Bozzo Estructuras y Proyectos

Structural Supervision

Alba Proyectos

Electrical Engineering

Fortuis Electromecnica S.A. de C.V.

Air Conditioning Engineering

ICC Aire Acondicionado S.A. de C.V.

Systems & Special Engineering

Teleintra S.A. de C.V.

Hydrosanitary Engineering

Construcciones y Proyectos Hidrulicos y Sanitarios S.A. de C.V.

Lighting Consultant

Sistemas y Soluciones en Eficiencia Energtica S.A. de C.V.

Audio & Video Consultant

Teleintra S.A. de C.V.

Landscape Consultant

Plantica S.A. de C.V.

Security Consultant
 Bravo Centinelas

Construction

Constructora Anteus

Certificate

LEED Plata

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From the architect. This mixed-use project for offices and a hotel is located in the heart of the
city of Guadalajara. Its formal, emphatic, and unified volumetrics express its iconic nature.

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The formal concept arises from the mixed-use character it will acquire, consisting of four
stacked geometric volumes. Two of these are slightly offset, and exactly aligned on the rear
face. These gestures of displacement are designed to interrupt the robustness of the building
and express an elegant sense of movement. The lowest volume houses the hotel, and the three
volumes above it are allocated to office use by three different corporations, each occupying
one volume in its entirety.

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As a response to its urban context, adjacent to one of the citys most significant urban
highways, Americas Ave., the building presents a faade resembling a double skin,
enveloping it for its protection.

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The solar gain the building will receive on three of its four sides was one of the most
significant design challenges. For this reason, the faces respond to this need with recessed
aluminum framing, in the style of a curtain wall, specifically designed at the correct angle to
create shadows and avoid excessive solar gain. On top of this, the building uses double
glazing offering a high degree of solar protection. The purity and repetition of the lines of the
faade grant it unique and timeless qualities that enhance its iconic character. As a result, it is
the first building of this type in the west of the country to receive LEED certification.

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The ground floor is conceived as a plaza, a large public space, providing access and transit
for the buildings various uses.

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Ground Floor Plan

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A triple elevator core facilitates the operation of the hotel, offices, parking lot, and services.
The vehicular and pedestrian entrances are set in a large plaza with textures and vegetation
giving pedestrians priority over cars. The dominant textures used in the floor surface are
natural limestone, which continues the geometry of the faade across the ground, with
randomly-placed areas of paving.

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Torre Amricas 1500 is the first stage of development of a whole complex. This first stage is
located on a site measuring 4,116 m, with a built area of 29,461 m distributed over 26 floors
from the ground floor to the last office level, below the heliport. There are 7 basement levels
covering a total of 28,509 m. The structural design is based on post-tensioned concrete slabs
and a central circulation core.
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13:00 - 4 May, 2017
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Architects

Goettsch Partners

Location

150 N Riverside Plaza, Chicago, IL 60606, United States

Architects in Charge

Jim Goettsch, Joachim Schuessler, Erik Harris

Area

136.0 m2

Project Year

2017

Manufacturers

Viracon, Contrarian Metal Resources, Euroglas

Structural Engineer

Magnusson Klemencic Associates

MEP/FP Consultant

Cosentini Associates

Landscap Architect
 Wolff Landscape

Lighting Designer

One Lux

Vertical Transportation Consultant

Jenkins & Huntington

LEED consultant

Goby LEED consultant

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From the architect. The sliver of land today known as 150 North Riverside sat vacant for
decades. Wedged between the Chicago River to the east, active Amtrak rail lines to the west,
and Lake and Randolph street viaducts to the north and south, the lot is only 85 feet across at
its widest point. Prior to the projects completion, developers, for decades, believed it was
impossible to build on a site with such constrictive features. Despite this long-held belief,
client-developer Riverside Investment & Development saw an opportunity to purchase the
parcel and structure a unique acquisition of two adjacent parcels of largely air rights above
the rail lines. This combined three-parcel site allowed the design team to create a 54-story
office tower directly on the riverfront, in conjunction with a surrounding public park and
riverwalk.

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Utilizing a core-supported structure, the design features a small building footprint that opens
the ground plane and allows for a dramatic, light-filled lobby while supporting efficient,
column-free office floors above. Taking cues from the river, vertical mullions undulate along
the buildings east and west facades to help activate the exterior. The north and south faces
divide into three vertical planes that accentuate the slenderness of the tower, with the center
plane recessed to create additional corner offices. The largely open nature of the base offers
the majority of the two-acre sitemore than 75%as a landscaped public park with
pedestrian pathways overlooking the river. Building amenity spaces include a restaurant, bar,
fitness center and conference centerall with water views.

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The 1.5 million-square-foot building is designed to achieve LEED Gold certification,
including a number of sustainable elements designed to maximize energy efficiency and
provide ample natural light and open spaces on the interior. The project also features an
extensive green roof system, covering the entire structure.

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16:00 - 13 March, 2017
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 aflalo/gasperini arquitetos

Location

Av. das Naes Unidas - Vila Gertrudes, So Paulo - SP, 04730-090,Brazil

Architects in Charge

Roberto Aflalo Filho, Felipe Aflalo Herman, Jos Luiz Lemos, Grazzieli Gomes Rocha

Area

178.0 m2

Project Year

2016

Photographs

Leonardo Finotti , Ana Mello, Roberto Aflalo

Manufacturers

thyssenkrupp

Team

Mario Tavares Moura Filho, Evangelina Lopes Nunes Galvo, Giuliana Torre, Gabriela Santos
Godinho, Marisa Terashima, Glaucia Hokama, Marcela Ferraz, Flavio Faggion, Marcelo Nagai,
Raquel Rodorigo, Gabriel Braga, Bruno Vargas

Coordinator

Marcio Orsi

Constructor/Client

WTorre Engenharia

Brickwork
 Inovatec Consultores

Frames/ Glass/ Facade

Crescncio Petrucci Consultoria

LEED

Sustentax Engenharia de Sustentabilidade

Metal Structure

Grupo Medabil

Eletric + Hydraulic

Interativa Engenharia

Air conditioning

Teknika Projetos e Consultoria Ltda

Foundation

Damasco Penna Engenharia Geotcnica

Wind Tunnel Consulting

Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul

Concrete Structure

vila Engenharia

Landscape Design

Soma Arquitetos

Waterproofing

Proassp
 Lighting

ingrone Iluminao

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Mello

From the architect. Two identical towers but in inverted positions, connected on the ground
floor and on four standard upper floors by bridge-like structures between the towers thus
characterizing a single building.
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The buildings east-west placement along its major axis favors the more extensive facades
with minimal heat gain, pointing the smaller facades towards the sunrise and sunset.

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Site Plan

Each tower has an independent access and two sets of elevators which thus define both
lobbies. The standard floors have the layout of the vertical circulation nucleus in the center of
the plan, freeing up the areas at the floors periphery and openings.

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Mello

On the ground floor there is also a theater and restaurant, accessed through the atrium
between the towers.
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The facades covering is mainly glass, laid in two different tones with the intention of
highlighting the volumetric elements.

The balconies protruding from the facades punctuate both the inside and external sides of the
building.

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Maslak No.1 Office Tower / EAA - Emre Arolat
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Architects

EAA - Emre Arolat Architecture

Location

Istanbul, stanbul, Turkey

Architect in Charge

Emre Arolat

Area

31850.0 m2

Project Year

2014

Photographs

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Manufacturers

Jotun, Otis, Schco

Client

Alsar Maslak Real Estate

Structural Projects
 Altneller Engineering

Mechanical Projects

Tanrover Engineering

Electrical Projects

Aykar Engineering

Fire Safety Consultant

Abdurrahman Klc

Facade Engineering Consultant

CWG (Salih Sekban)

Security Consultant

ICTS

Sustainability Consultant (fort he LEED certificate)

Altensis

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Mayer

From the architect. The project for the office building to be situated on the Mecidiyekoy-
Maslak axis, where Turkeys foreign capital takes its most visible form, was conditioned by
the tension between density of its environ and the tightness of the project site. It was the
clients wish that the building would be a prestigious building, just like all the other
surrounding buildings which only meant to be prominent, having been developed with no
certain rule, plan or order.

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Apart from the other projects along the Buyukdere Avenue, which is the main business
district of Istanbul, Maslak No.1 Office Tower was designed to enrich the quality of the
typical office space by vertical gardens. In order to accomplish that, a rational office block
which was planned over a 8.25 x 8.25 m grid, enveloped with a free formed glazing system
was designed. The envelope, acting as a secondary facade in south and west direction is
detached from the building up to 17 meters, let vertical gardens in 20 meters high. The space
in-between two facades was considered as a buffer zone both for the acoustical and the
climatic sense. The simple reinforced concrete office building with a basic, operable
aluminum framing and glazing system helped in ease of construction and decrease in budget
compared to similar investments, being free of direct wind load and sun rays. The envelope in
steel structure, while creating the climatic control, provides the building with the prestige,
identity and peculiarity through the crowd of alike structures that is a part of the clients
brief.

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The curvilinear plan of the facade formed by the 150 x 200 cm rectangular modules was
designed regarding the perception from the highway. These glass panels are arranged in the
texture of fish-scale letting air flow through and they have a translucent film layer over it.
The opacity of the film layer diverse, up to the orientation of the curvilinear facade; on
southern facade a less transparent pattern was chosen; however in north, almost a transparent
film was used which are designed according to environmental control issues.

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Mayer

The office buildings at this district are planned and are being managed as private gated
communities, independently secured and controlled. No free access or passage is allowed
even at the communal ground levels, that prevents any possible interaction with the street and
neighboring alike complexes. As a matter of creating porosity on the urban level, a
considerable part of the ground floor, together with the buffer zone and the outside terrace at
Maslak No:1 Tower is kept except the secured, private areas of the building, that welcomes
public freely with a hope that future developments or refurbishments at the region may carry
on this attitude to empower the urban life throughout the district.

Concept Project presented at the beginning of 2009 was developed with all parties and local
authorities until 2012. As opposed to many other projects in Turkey, the construction started
then with all documents ready and completed in 2014 through a well-organized and
controlled process.

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Sustainability Statement
Maslak No.1 is certified with LEED Gold and is considered among the high-qualified and
highly-demanded office buildings of the district, in spite of notably simple choice of
materials compared to the counterparts in the market, inhabiting national and international
significant companies such as Deloitte as the main tenant.

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Main volumetric composition of the project depends on a simple reinforced concrete office
block and a porous envelope that controls the general climate of the building. While letting
air flow through the glass panels arranged as fish-scale, the envelope filters direct effects of
the climate. The in-between buffer zone, provided the design of the office framing dependent
on most simplest parameters technically; low wind loads and least amount of uv control. The
envelope also provided acoustic comfort, made natural ventilation possible at suitable seasons
by operable windows which also decreases the sense of working in a plaza effect on
employees. The existence and density of the dots on the film coating on these glass panels are
designed parametrically according to the movement of the sun in order to decrease solar gain
and to provide shade control while at the same time letting panoramas at eye level.

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Mayer

General office planning strategy takes into account the issues of flexibility and adaptability,
designed in the scope of shell and core design. The carpark levels, lobby space and
circulation core together with minimum amount of common restrooms were completed with
simple finishes of optimum budgets. Large amount of exposed concrete and use of partial
suspended ceiling elements, together with a simple local stone on the floor are the main
materials used. The rest of the office floors were finished as a simple naked grid structure, to
be equipped with raised floor and dry wall structures. Concrete surfaces were finished in a
quality that once again encourages the tenant to keep it as exposed or with partial ceiling
elements.

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The building has maximum energy efficient design based on the latest technology in building
materials, illumination and mechanical systems. The 3D Variable Refrigerant Volume
(VRV) system and heat recoverable HVAC Units help it to reach high efficiency level,
aiming to reach an energy saving level of 40% compared to buildings with similar features.
The building is equipped with maximum cooling / heating and story based control with three
tube VRV system and reinforced fresh air with recycling fresh air units. Regenerative
elevators produce their own electricity, water efficient appliances and fixtures are installed,
energy saving is provided by the use of LED and T5 lighting fixtures,

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 Thomas
Mayer

The location of the site had benefits of highway access for material supply during
construction as well as its close proximity to public transport; bus and metro that are a few
minutes walk away. Finally, the project tries to create an urban porosity on the ground level,
as described in the project description text, as opposed to the rest of the district that would
behave as seeds for a future consideration of urban access and communal use throughout the
neighborhood.