Ar. Moshe Safdie: Shruti Garg Roll No.6

AR.
MOSHE
SAFDIE
SHRUTI GARG
ROLL NO.6
INTRODUCTION
Moshe Safdie is an architect, urban planner, educator,
theorist, and
author.
Born in Haifa, Israel, in 1938, Safdie moved to Canada with

his family at the age of 15. He graduated from McGill University
in 1961 with a degree in architecture. After apprenticing with
Louis I. Kahn in Philadelphia, Safdie returned to Montreal to
oversee the master plan for the 1967 World Exhibition.
In 1964 he established his own firm to realize Habitat 67, an

adaptation of his thesis at McGill, which was the central feature
of the Worlds Fair and a groundbreaking design in the history
of architecture.
PRINCIPLES OF MOSHE
Shaping the public realm

Architecture with purpose
Responding to the essence of
place
Architecture that is buildable
Building responsibly
Humanizing the mega scale
HIS PROJECTS
Safdie has completed a wide range of projects, such as
cultural, educational, and civic institutions; neighbourhoods
and public parks; mixed-use urban centres and airports; and
master plans for existing communities and entirely new cities
around the world.
Khalsa Heritage Memorial
Habitat 67
Sketch of habitat 67 by
Moshe
Kauffman centre of Performing

Arts
MARINA BAY SANDS

SINGAPORE
Architects:
Safdie
Architects
Location:
Singapore,
Singapore
Project Director:
Moshe Safdie
Executive Architects:
Aedas, Pte,
Ltd.
Structural Engineering: Arup
Landscape Design:
Peter Walker
& Partners
Landscape Construction: Peridian
International
Area:
154,938
sqm
Hotel Site2,560
luxury rooms in three
hotel towers,
Site Area265,683
:
845,000
sqm
totaling
square meters
(2,860,000
Budget:
US $5.7
square
feet).
billion
It is situated on 15.5 hectares of land with
Project
Year:
2010
the gross
floor area of 581,000
square
meters. The iconic design has transformed
Singapore's skyline and tourism landscape
since it opened on 27 April 2010. The
property has a hotel, convention and
exhibition facilities, theatres, entertainment
Sands skypark
The three
hotel towers are
venues, retailers
and restaurants.
connected at the top (200 meters/656 feet)
by a 9,941 square meter (107,000 square
foot) park that brings together a public
observatory, jogging paths, gardens,
restaurants, lounges, and an infinity
swimming pool
Design Concept
Wind
Screen
Sky
Rib Park
Structure
Restaurant
Bridge Connection
Planted
Roof
Atrium Glass Connection
Garden
Tower
Land Bridge Connection to
Stilt
Glazing
Screen
Bay
Tower
Elevator
Core
RTS
Connection
Atrium
Lobby
Restaurant
Fig.1
Conceptually, each tower is

composed of two slabs of east and
west-facing rooms. The doubleloaded towers spread at the base
forming a giant atrium at the lower
levels, and converge as they rise
(Figure 1).
Fig.2
In plan, as the parcel varies in

width, the cross section is
decreased from one tower to the
next. The three void spaces are
connected by one continuous and
conditioned-glazed atrium, filling
the space between the towers with
restaurants, retail spaces, and a
public thoroughfare.
Each
tower slab form is also

twisted slightly in relation to its
pair,
creating
a
dance-like
relationship between the two parts
and accentuating the slenderness
of the buildings, resulting in the
appearance of six towers, rather
than three (Figure 2).
Faades
As the largest amount of heat

gain occurs on the west faade, it
was important that an innovative
solution be developed to maintain
energy efficiency, without limiting
the view from the hotel rooms to
Singapores downtown.
The design solution proposed and implemented

was a custom double-glazed unitized curtain wall.
Perpendicular to the faade, glass fins were
installed to provide shading. The outer skin
follows the natural curved shape of the buildings,
and the use of reflective glass creates a taught
mirrored faade. The fins use a 30%-reflective
glass and are responsible for shading the faade
for up to 20% of all solar gain
The east faade

handles heat gain
differently, utilizing
deep planted
terraces which
follow the sloping
radial geometry of
the buildings profile
STRUCTURE &
MATERIALS used
on Singapore
Gold Sand
Marina Bay Hotel
Shear walls are used as primary

vertical and transverse structural
system for all three towers. Additional of
concrete core walls located within both legs
of each towers restrain the hotel in the
longitudinal direction and help prevent outof-plane buckling of the narrow shear walls
within both legs of the towers.
Post-tensioned 8-inch Flat slabs span directly
between the shear walls. The flat slab
scheme also provides flexibility in the hotel
room layout, to hold a relatively tight 9-foot
10-inch typical floor-to-floor height, and
accommodates flexibility of building services
distribution and coordination throughout
each floor.
At level 23, where the story-height steel
trusses are located, mechanical floors
connected the legs of the tower to withstand
the large shear forces that occur where
these meet above the central atrium.
The base slab at ground floor level is posttensioned to resist the horizontal thrusts
produced by the inclined legs. Each tower
slab form is also slightly changed in relation
to its pair, to increase the slenderness of the
buildings, resulting in the appearance of six
towers, instead of three.
INDUSTRIALIZED
BUILDING
SYSTEMS
(IBS)
Industrialized
Building
Systems, IBS is also known as
Pre-fabricated/Pre-fab
Construction
and
Off-site
Construction. IBS is a method of
construction
which
uses
techniques
such
as
mass
production
of
industrial
components in a controlled
environment,
and
later
transported to construction site
for
further assembly
onto
specific buildings.
The SkyPark was prefabricated

off-site in 14 primary segments.
The bridging sections extending
between adjacent towers each
consist of three 400-ton bridge
trusses
that
were
preassembled at grade. These
were then strand jacked into
place over a span of 16 hours.
The final cantilevering portion
was likewise prefabricated in
segments at grade to ensure
proper fit-up.
The entire assembly was then disassembled and each segment was hoisted in turn via strand jacks cantilevering from a
moveable gantry attach
from secondary beams at roof level, themselves spanning between the main box girders of the previously installed segment.
In total, over 7,000 tons of SkyPark steelwork was erected in just 13 weeks.

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Born in Haifa, Israel, in 1938, Safdie moved to Canada with

In 1964 he established his own firm to realize Habitat 67, an

Shaping the public realm

Khalsa Heritage Memorial

Kauffman centre of Performing

MARINA BAY SANDS

Conceptually, each tower is

In plan, as the parcel varies in

tower slab form is also

As the largest amount of heat

The design solution proposed and implemented

The east faade

Shear walls are used as primary

The SkyPark was prefabricated

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