22 SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY SUSTAINABLE ENERGY ENGINEERING BUILDING, BRITISH COLUMBIA
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The 400-capacity lecture hall is available for use by the local community as well as the university
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Architect: Revery Architecture Client: Simon Fraser University No. of students: 515 (approx) No. of staff: 60 Gross floor area: 14,445 m2 Sustainability: LEED Gold
respectively, making it a relatively lightly glazed building. “Having said that,” Kokalov qualifies, the visual dominance of translucent material “is due to the strategic placement of the glass that it gives that perception.” He continues: “It is very successful in this regard – it gives an open feeling to people which meets SFU’s philosophy of a ‘community engaging a school’.”
The architects faced some difficulties in achieving their desired exterior aesthetic, most notably in the construction phase. The precast panels and curtain wall infill panels were made independently, rather than being
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prefabricated together, and all of the mounting brackets were located on the slab edge. The main challenges, according to Kokalov, came from the installation sequence, the achievable tolerances, and the glass fabrication lead time. The orientation of the precast and glazing systems is not entirely vertical. Instead, they weave left and right as they climb the building. This required the gap between the two systems to be increased in order to accommodate both horizontal and vertical movement due to expansion and contraction originating from temperature fluctuations. “Simply
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