Roof design of the Hanoi faculty incorporates patterns from the Ngoc Lu drum, a big artifact from Vietnam’s Bronze Age.
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Dwight Faculty Hanoi
Hanoi, Vietnam
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Submitted by: Turner Building
Proprietor: Bitexco Joint Inventory Co.
Lead Design Agency: Carlos Zapata Studio
Contractor | Challenge Administration: Turner Vietnam Co. Ltd.
Civil Engineer: LJ-Asia
Structural Engineer: LERA Consulting Structural Engineers Worldwide PLLC
MEP Engineer: DSA Engineering Ltd.
Façade Guide: Façade Associates Co. Ltd.
Theatre & Acoustic Consultants: Delhom Acoustique;
Geese Scéno
The Dwight Faculty Hanoi is described by the venture crew as a premium personal faculty within the Vietnam capital designed with a contemporary city academic imaginative and prescient that gives house for adaptive areas, versatile studying and social distancing.
The venture includes a full glazing facade mixed with skylights and a cladding system to “emphasize a contemporary look and maximize pure lighting from all instructions,” the crew says. However the constructing rooftop additionally consists of patterns from Vietnam’s Ngoc Lu drum, a famous Bronze Age artifact. The fabric used is a pebble wash combined with polymer, “making it distinctive by way of venture measurement and sample,” says the crew, and setting new requirements in training design and constructing.
The completely different elements of the college’s rooftop are absolutely related by a large skybridge, with metal changing unique strengthened concrete to cut back development time. Prestressed girder beams—amongst Vietnam’s longest at 34 m, in response to the submission—span the roof and embody sensors to observe concrete power to make sure high quality management and optimum cable rigidity timing.
Regardless of consultants positioned in 4 continents and a nine-month work suspension brought on by “points with native authorities,” the crew says it met schedule and funds targets, with no lost-time accidents or accidents in 1.5 million work hours.
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