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CRSI CASE STUDY: Avalon Willoughby Square

Name: Sandesh Shetty

Enrollment no: A13559016103
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Contents
INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................................................................. 3
PROJECT DETAILS .......................................................................................................................................... 3
STRUCTURAL FRAMING SYSTEM ................................................................................................................... 3
Floor System ................................................................................................................................................. 4
Unique features ............................................................................................................................................ 4
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INTRODUCTION
This report is about the Avalon Willoughby Square which is the tallest residential building in Brooklyn. It
is over 57 stories and little over 181 mts tall. The building includes 823 luxury residential rental
apartments with layouts ranging from studios to three-bedrooms. The housing is spread over 732,000sf
of space, for an average unit size a bit below 900sf.

PROJECT DETAILS

Location: Brooklyn, NY

Owner: AvalonBay Communities, Inc., New York, NY

Architect: SLCE Architects, New York, NY

Engineer: DeSimone Consulting Engineers, New York, NY

General Contractor: AvalonBay Communities, Inc., New York, NY

Concrete Contractor:
Park Avenue Concrete, Melville, NY

Total Project Size: 850,000 sq ft

(15,000 sq ft Retail only)

Floor System: Reinforced Concrete Flat Plate

Framing System: Concrete

STRUCTURAL FRAMING SYSTEM

This structure being a high rise building it’s structural system can be classified as both Interior and
exterior frame.
Interior framing system includes

 Hinged frame
 Rigid frame
 Braced frame and Shear-walled frame
 Outrigger structures
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Exterior framing system includes

 Tube
 Diagrid
 Space Truss
 Exoskeleton
 Superframe

Floor System
The flooring system used here is flat plate reinforced concrete flooring system. It is the simplest and
most logical of all structural forms in that it consists of uniforms slabs, connected rigidly to supporting
columns.The system, which is essentially of reinforced concrete, is very economical in having a flat soffit
requiring the most uncomplicated formwork and, because of the soffit can be used as the ceiling, in
creating a minimum possible floor depth.Lateral resistance depends on the flexural stiffness of the
components and their connections, with the slab corresponding to the girder of the rigid
frame.Particularly appropriate for hotel and apartment construction where ceiling space is not required
and where the slab may serve directly as the ceiling.

Reason for choosing reinforced concrete

 Provide high-strength concrete to increase building stiffness.

 Coupled shear wall, full height link walls at mid-height and roof.

Unique features

 Construction of a very tall structure on soil.

 Maximize rentable floor space by minimizing columns and shear walls.