Ampacomp office building
Ampacomp office building in New Belgrade, Serbia.
Pre design of the building represented to the client in January 2006 and waiting
submission for municipal approval.~
10000m²
This was a specific design with which I blew the competition away as they submitted designs characterized by post-modern architectural style.
The site for this building is located near a major road that connects new and old parts of Belgrade, equipped with heavy infrastructure and capable of hosting such hi-tech building.
Center of the location is characterized with a new man made lake on
top of which the building would be constructed. The foundation for the building
lies on individually based reinforced concrete slabs that are placed on top of
12m long concrete pillars that have been hammered in to the ground. Because the
structure of soil in this part of Belgrade is characterized by underground water
and sand, special foundation is needed.
From each concrete pillar there are steel tubes positioned at 45° angles that receive the load from the building above.
The building is divided by two separate wings that are
connected in the middle at the ground floor by a
central hall. Around this central hall there are restaurants, kitchen area with
supplies and small exhibition areas. The floor in the public area of the ground
floor is made of layered glass panels that are reinforced by two layers
of PVC foils. Bellow this glass floor is a artificial lake and you have that ''
Walking on the water" effect.
Both wings consist of offices combining open plan and closed plan types.
The facade of the building consists of Alubond panels and structural glazed aluminum panels with sun louvers.
The whole building is planed to be airconditioned.