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MILTON COURT AND THE

HERON, LONDON

Asanka Kumarasiri
PG Diploma in Structural Engineering, 2014
What? Where? Who? And Whose?
 Mixed use development with Residential + Public (Music and
performing arts school)

 Investors
◦ Heron International
◦ City of London corporation
◦ Guildhall school of music and drama

 Architect
◦ David Walker Architect

 Structural Engineer
◦ WSP Group

 Located in Barbical Residential Estate, City of London


Itinerary
1. Space Allocation
2. Structural Solution as a whole
3. Identify the features of the structure
4. Decide on the form and Load path
5. Alternative form
Accommodating all spatial requirements in a single building

Space Allocation
 Lower Six stories
◦ Concert Hall
◦ Two theatres
◦ Entrance lobby, Atrium, Teaching
rooms, rehearsal rooms, etc..

 36 stories above
◦ 285 residential apartments
Structural Solution

The Building as a whole


 Principally, A hybrid structure with
◦ R/F concrete
◦ Post tensioned concrete
◦ Structural steel
Residential Tower and Theatre Structure –
A Closer look

 A slender Tower

 Floors with Pre-Stressed, post-tensioned concrete slabs

 Columns in irregular positions

 Overall Stability
◦ Linked shear walls (slip formed)

 Lift/Stair case cores located eccentrically on north and east


◦ Plain Shear wall towards south

 Torsion
◦ Floors + Cores + Shear Walls
Res. Tower and Theatre Structure-
A Closure Look Contd…..
Residential apartment
with closer spacing of
columns

Internal walls toward south direction


- Major two level transfer system

Theatre with an open


arrangement demanding a large
distance between vertical
members

 Theatre Area --RC slabs,


Columns and infill masonry
walls
Structural Form – Res. Tower and
Theatre
 Frame wall system – RC frame braced with
coupled shear walls

 Load path

◦ Vertical
Slabs  columns/walls res. tower  transfer wall
and slab (strut and tie) Theatre columns
raft/piles

◦ Horizontal
Slabs (Diagonal)  shear walls Ground
Structure in a nut shell – Concert
hall and Foyer area
 Open architecture requiring clear views hence less and
distantly spaced vertical elements
 High acoustic performance box in box principle
(Operational space is enclosed by two skins)

 Outer box
◦ Same concrete frame with dense block work infill for the
adjoining side
◦ Steel frame filled with pre-cast concrete façade panels
(double skinned)  Connected to the RC frame

 Inner box
◦ Free standing masonry infilled steel framed structure
supported on the outer box via isolated bearings
Structure in a nut shell – Res. Tower
and Theatre Cond.
Structural Form – Concert hall and
Foyer area
 Outer box
◦ Lateral Stability  Lift core, Stair case and the
building as a whole
Hybrid fame-core system

 Inner box
◦ Lateral Stability  Cross bracings
◦ Supported on resilient bearings
Vierendeel truss
Foundation and Substructure
 Distribution of Loads, varies
across the site due to
architectural Massing Piled Raft
 Pile positions should be flexible Foundation

in order to prevent clashes


from the piles of the defunct
structure Bored RC bearing piles

 Basement With insitu secant


piles and facilities to drain out London Clay Formation
ground water
Could have considered to be
designed As..,
 Residential Building and the Theatre
A complete RC Core made with system formwork + RC slabs for
floors
Thin walls can be used without any specific shear walls requiring thick
vertical members without beams
Transfer System with a thick RC transfer slab

 Concert Hall and Foyer Area


Outer box - with the same core system of walls and RC slabs
Inner box - with the same vierendeel truss mounted on resilient
bearings
• Image Courtesy – Structural Engineer, October 2013

• Knowledge donors,
• Structural Engineer, October 2013

• Wikipedia Page on ‘The Heron’

• Google Earth

• ExceLand Enterprises Group website


The End
Thank you

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