Edgewater

Its a precast concrete panel structure with suspended concrete floor system. Concrete floor is post tensioned the dark patches in concrete slab shows where the tension rods are.
This is a loop for cranege of precast panel.
The slab is poured in permanent foam work with infill slab at the perimeter.
Photograph shows false work of the and the safety rails.
Piping runs through the floor. special holes are made in the floor slab form work to allow services.


Bathroom floors are done at lower level and will be finished with appropriate tiling and slope, so the water could not flow outside .
Reinforcement is continued from the wall panel up to be connected to the next panel.

New floor level is prepared for concrete pour.

Safety caps.
detail of the water pool. the pain slab stops before the pool and the space in between will be filled later on. This was done because the concrete for the pool was made with special waterproof additives and poured separately.
The staircase frame with reinforcement.

Ian Potter Centre

Walls of Potter Centre is made of oddly shaped steel frames with different type of panelling. The frame creates an unusual look of the building
Solid, translucent and transparent panels are placed within steel frame structure.

The shadows it casts within the atrium and the quality of light is quite amazing.



Soffit design echoes the wall .
The envelope with the triangulation is non-load bearing. The main structure is columns in decorative casement.
The steel frame is a complex system of rigid and pinned connection. Joining and members massiveness is very harmonious. Although, i believe that members are oversized.







Frames are bolted together. the bolts are very decorative as well.
Some of the panels are openable some are sealed.


The detail looking up to the envelope. The services are run in the gap between the structure and envelope.

Charlise Street Development

Metabolist Architecture Group

Info links:
Wikipedia
Metabolism Role in the Modern World

Major Project: Hero Architect

Fimihiko Maki

Maki is a Japanese born architect who studied both in Japan and America.

He was one of the establishers of Metabolism Group.

Biography:

(b. Tokyo, Japan 1928)

Fumihiko Maki was born in Tokyo in 1928. He studied at the University of Tokyo, at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, and at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. After he worked for Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill in New York and for Sert Jackson and Associates in Cambridge he spent several years teaching and working independently. In 1965 he established Maki and Associates in Tokyo.

Maki returned to Japan in 1960 and helped establish the Metabolism Group. With an obsessive interest in new technology and rational design, Maki uses modular systems in planning and standardized building components in construction. His favorite materials are metal, glass, and poured concrete. Despite his keen interest in theory and technology, Maki is a populist, and his buildings display a warmth and sense of excitement that is rarely found in contemporary architecture.

Maki's designs exhibit carefully manipulated shapes and textures that humanize their total effect. Maki displays a constant concern with contextual response. Maki applies his belief in standardized parts and adaptability in a very pragmatic way. His design attention is not the glorification of his theories, but the successful employment of them to create effective architecture that meets human needs.

Maki has been studying traditional Japanese architecture which he has begun incorporating into his design work. Maki's design work is remarkably mature, not merely in choice of concept, but in terms of compositional sophistication as well.

Some photos:

Kaze-no-oka crematorium, Nakatsu City

Tepia Plaza, Tokyo

Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium

Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum located on the campus of Washington University in St. Louis

Republic Polytechnic, Singapore

Spiral house in Tokyo

Links to more photos of buildings by Maki and his new tower project:

Fumihiko Maki
Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureate

Four Months of Design, Three New Towers

Development of Flinders St. Craning panels

Craning up of a precast panel

False work and safety screens on the building.
Thickening of the floor slab where the columns meet the floor to transfer the loads from the upper floors.