The Craft of Architecture

CONCRETE

One Park
Cast-in-Place Superstructure: 
The One Park project features a robust cast-in-place concrete structural frame, utilizing a highly engineered post tensioned system to achieve its high-rise elevation. Providing efficient flat plate with thinner floor profiles while safely supporting the cantilevered balconies on every residential level.

Massive Podium Foundation: 
The tower is above a multi-level concrete podium that transfers loads while integrating lower-level parking and amenity spaces.

Aspire Parking Garage:
Precast Concrete Assembly: 
The garage's massive exterior walls and structural framework are constructed using high-quality precast concrete components manufactured off-site, acting as modular building blocks that allow for rapid, efficient on-site assembly and a clean, durable finish.

Prestressed Structural Strength: 
To safely support heavy vehicular loads while maintaining wide, open driving lanes without the need for excessive columns, the facility relies on prestressed concrete floor slabs and beams engineered with internal steel tension to maximize long-term load-bearing capacity.

METAL

Patriot Plaza
Advanced Space Frame Engineering: 
The Patriot Plaza project features two distinct, stark white steel spaceframe canopies designed to provide shade and shelter. The construction required two different glazing support methods; the expansive 60-meter span roof utilizes a bending-stiff upper chord to support the translucent glass, whereas the smaller band shell relies on bolting the glass directly to the structural nodes.

Specialized Connections: 
The intricate web of tubular steel is brought together using highly specialized Block Knoten and Kugel Knoten structural node systems. Covering 23,150 square feet, the installation process required extreme precision, with construction crews utilizing aerial lifts to navigate and assemble the complex, curved geometry of the canopy ceiling in the field.

One Palm
Steel Plank & Girder Plank Systems:
 Our technical approach seamlessly combines a robust structural steel framework with precast concrete elements. By engineering specialized structural connections, the steel columns and beams precisely support high-capacity girder plank systems, which optimizes floor-to-floor heights and accelerates the overall assembly timeline.

Efficient Plank Systems: The specification of hollow-core plank flooring within this hybrid structural system maximizes clear spans while significantly reducing the building's overall dead load. This meticulous coordination between the steel framework and concrete plank delivers a rigid, fire-resistant diaphragm that fundamentally enhances the building's structural integrity and spatial flexibility.

Easterseals Autism Center
Optimized Structural Spans: By engineering a highly efficient grid of open-web steel joists and primary beams, we effectively manage load distribution while maximizing clear spans. Optimizing the span-to-depth ratio of these joists minimizes the required column footprint, resulting in flexible, unobstructed interior environments.

System Integration and Detailing: Designing this level of structural framework requires rigorous attention to complex connection detailing and exact dimensional tolerances. The seamless integration of the steel skeleton with the concrete slab rough-ins and perimeter masonry walls highlights a technically driven approach to precise structural alignment.