"Sur Mesure" is a fast food restaurant that customers can make their sandwiches, salad or pasta with ingredients and sauce of their own choice, among a large selection… Let us now look at the works that have been carried out inside the restaurant. The previous owners had used the premises as a temporary employment agency. In order to render the premises suitable for the restauration business (in relation to food storage, the kitchen, or accessibility), almost everything had to be demolished and redesigned. The new client imagined opening a much higher quality outlet than the traditional fast food chains.

Arcoa canot 32, image courtesy Blossom Creative

The Regulars are from the surrounding shops, but also professionals (such as lawyers or accountants) working in the many offices. The challenge was to open a trendy, fashionable restaurant, inspired by the lounge bar concept and offering an oasis of tranquillity in busy day-times schedules.

Arcoa canot 32, image courtesy Blossom Creative

Upon entering the restaurant, the main counter is in front of you. You are greeted by the team who will also prepare your salads and sandwiches. Just next to the counter there is a refrigerated area where clients can select starters, desserts and drinks before choosing their main menu.

Several tables have been installed, allowing small or larger groups of friends to meet and mingle.

Arcoa canot 32, image courtesy Blossom Creative

On the first floor, there is a very cozy space where people can relax in leather seats and be warmed by the authentic gas fire. There is a panoramic view from the mezzanine on the busy restaurant and its activity below.

Arcoa canot 32, image courtesy Blossom Creative

Finally, the modern Kitchen is hidden away from sight on the first floor. All dishes are freshly prepared there, either on a daily basis, or in immediate response to the client's orders. The sophisticated kitchen is in its rightful place and does not infringe upon the dining space.

+ All images courtesy Blossom Creative

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The house is privately owned prestigious residential development overlooking Gleneagles’ famous Queen’s Golf Course, sold by the world-famous five-star hotel and golf resort in Perthshire.

The site, overlooking the third fairway of the Queen's Course, is one of 13 in an exclusive gated development called Queen's Crescent.

At 21,000sq ft, it will be about five times the size of a typical luxury five-bedroom detached home.

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This incredible private home was built around an aquarium which is 4 meters in diameter and raises three stories through the centre of the property.

The stair is fabricated from a single steel helical stringer with cantilevering glass treads and glass balustrade to stairs and landing.

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+ Specification

Steelwork

• The stringer will be connected to the floor structure using a steel base plate and supported off steel CHS columns (columns by others) at 3 other locations with fabricated brackets.
• The stringer will be a customised steel parallel flange channel (PFC) running around the outer edge of the stair with a plate infill welded into the open side and 'post-box' cut-outs to enable the glass treads to cantilever from the stringer towards the aquarium in the centre.

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Glass

• The glass treads are to be wedge shaped heat soaked toughened laminated glass 40mm thick with structural sentry interlayer.
• The glass treads will be inserted through the stringer from the outside edge of the stair and held in place using high modulus silicon and nylon packers.
• The landing glass will be supported off the PFC stringer in a similar manner to the treads.
• The glass balustrade is to be heat soaked toughened laminated glass 15mm thick clamped between the stringer and a fascia plate.

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Structural feasibility

• The design loads will be taken as 1.5kN/m2 floor load for a residential building and 0.36kN/m run balustrade loading taken in accordance with BS6399:pt 1.
• The target frequency of the stair will be 7Hz with 25% live load taken as participant mass. – This means that the stair will exhibit mild perceptible vibrations when trafficked energetically, which is normal for a stair of this type.
• It is assumed that the supporting structure has been designed with adequate stiffness and strength to support the proposed stair.

+ All images and drawings courtesy Diapo Limited

In this edition of Construmat 2011, the Glass Foundation of Barcelona stresses new potentials and future challenges of glass, researching and trialing new possibilities, both for its integration into the architectural field as for the development of new ways in order to move towards a more sustainable architecture.

Structures of glass: traditionally, glass has been linked to fragility, but new techniques as well as higher levels of control production, plus the possibility to create stable and resistant forms through blowing, tubing, fusing etc, has opened up new pathways to new solutions such as structural glass, or the possibility of integrate in one element many functions, functions that previously had been resolved with an increasing number of elements and, consequently, of costs.

From this point of view, the stand wants to reflect and to suggest this process, subverting the formulation of two traditionally opposing concepts, the visual and physical lightness. Weighting 30 kg., the stand allows to form a 54 m2 continous ceiling, recycling stocks of glass tubs used at the chemical industry. All supported by six helium balloons (diameter: 3m).

The installation can be easily transported.

+ Designer: MAIO

Shared by a New York-based architect Delaine Isaac, he has recently completed the first episode for “Great Spaces“: UNStudio Amsterdam Pavilion. The Amsterdam Pavilion was commissioned by the Battery Conservancy, is a gift from the Netherlands to New York in honour of 400 years of friendship. It was unveiled to public in September 2009, if you’ve never visited the building, let’s take a close look on this project.

Click here for more information of this project by UNStudio.

+ Project by Delaine Isaac

Nha House | Delaine Isaac