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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
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
A slender Tower
Overall Stability
◦ Linked shear walls (slip formed)
Torsion
◦ Floors + Cores + Shear Walls
Res. Tower and Theatre Structure-
A Closure Look Contd…..
Residential apartment
with closer spacing of
columns
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
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