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Assignment 2 - Waffle Slab

The Barangaroo House in Sydney, Australia is a 2-story restaurant building designed with a curved floor plan and facade to create a free-flowing indoor and outdoor dining experience. Key features include a steam-bent charred timber facade that curves around the building and conceals edible planters, as well as cantilevered balconies on each level that extend the dining spaces outward. An innovative concrete waffle slab structure with post-tensioning allows the balconies and open floor plans.

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Assignment 2 - Waffle Slab

The Barangaroo House in Sydney, Australia is a 2-story restaurant building designed with a curved floor plan and facade to create a free-flowing indoor and outdoor dining experience. Key features include a steam-bent charred timber facade that curves around the building and conceals edible planters, as well as cantilevered balconies on each level that extend the dining spaces outward. An innovative concrete waffle slab structure with post-tensioning allows the balconies and open floor plans.

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BARANGAROO

HOUSE

A012 Prishita Mehta


BARANGAROO HOUSE

Architects: Collins and Turner


Year: 2017
City: Barangaroo
Country: Australia
Category: Restaurant
Floors: 2
Material: Wood
The overarching design
strategy was borne of two
crucial responses to site and
brief: the urban response of a
building ‘in-the-round’, and the
holistic integration of planting;
both edible and ornamental.

The curved plan form creates


a free-flowing space around
the building, encouraging and
welcoming movement, while
effectively stretching the
waterside terraces around the
northern and southern faces of
the building.
SITE PLAN

Barangaroo House occupies a


750-square-metre plot that is
flanked on three sides by
pedestrianised streets, and on
the other by a road, so the
architects chose to develop a
rounded building form rather
than creating three distinct
facades.
GROUND FLOOR PLAN

House Bar
FIRST FLOOR PLAN

Bea Restaurant : Offer fresh and


ambitious indoor and outdoor dining
SECOND FLOOR PLAN

Smoke Bar - Rooftop


cocktail bar
ROOF PLAN
SECTION
FACADE
A steam-bent charred timber façade gently curves in 3
dimensions, concealing a continuous ring of edible plants and
generating a strong visual identity for the building, while the
perimeter balconies cantilever the dining spaces outward, resulting
in a uniquely outdoor atmosphere on each level.
WAFFLE SLAB

The structural cantilevers required a complex and innovative concrete waffle slab design, with several
layers of post-tensioning, interwoven much like a cable-knit jumper, to allow two-dimensional spans,
distributing load back to the raking structural columns, and permitting a free open floor plan for future
flexibility.
SECTION

Operable glazing connects the


balconies with the internal spaces,
which feature virtually column-free
floorplans as a result of a structural
framework based around a pair of
angled columns supporting a
post-tensioned concrete waffle
slab.

The balconies are clad in a curving


facade system comprising
concentric timber dowels, which
were individually steam bent and
laminated into a series of
predetermined curves before being
fixed to aluminium brackets to
ensure even spacing across the
structure.
The key urban design agenda of a ‘building in the round’ dictated the curvilinear form, which projects
curved perimeter balconies outward in each direction. Structural cantilevers up to 8.5m permit a uniquely
outdoor atmosphere to a series of dining spaces on each level of the multi-tiered building.
MATERIAL
Innovation in detailing
was driven by the vision
for a steam-bent charred
timber facade, which
would reference the
primeval act of cooking,
while generating a
strong visual identity for
the building, and
aesthetically support the
urban strategy of a
‘building in the round’.
Prototypes were
prepared to refine the
concealed dowel fixings,
steam bending
methodology, and
openable windbreaks.
Wood cladding : Accoya cladding
Slimline operable glazing
Timber facade cladding : Accoya wood - Britton Timbers
The dowels, which utilise a robust acetylated pine called
Accoya, were charred using the traditional Japanese Shou
Sugi Ban technique. This creates a dark finish that
enhances the wood's weatherproof properties so it requires
little maintenance.
Timber floors : Tallowwood hardwood - Mint Floors
Structural : Concrete
Manufacturers : Bromic

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