Medium-rise sustainable community

Last crawled date: 1 year, 11 months ago

This is one of a proposed cluster of three medium rise residential/mixed-use buildings. The structure would be cast-in-place ferro-concrete bents with smaller components cast nearby but off site from local granite aggregate. The floors would be concrete on Q-Deck on 30'steel trusses with hydronic heating. Groundwater coils would be installed on the site. The floors are 50' front to back, with the back wall on the upper floors leaned into the atrium with skylights to admit natural light into the back of the space. The floors would be divided into 500 sq. ft. modules, and the space would be sold in modules, and divided off with curtain walls. The front, or outside wall of each apartment would be glass, and placed any distance from the outside structural panel which is the balcony wall, so the tenants could decide on their own ratio of inside/outside space. Access to the exterior glazed walkways would be individual bridges to each balcony. The ground floor would be a mix of garden apartments and commercial/service/institutional space. They would have access to the outside and the central atrium. There may be a pool or rink in the atrium. The parking structure would be at one end, and covered with earth. This, along with the atrium and the roof, would be public space. #oceanfront_lands #Squamish #sustainable_apartment_building