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BENCH HEADQUARTERS, PHILIPPINES FOSTER + PARTNERS
Foster + Partners is providing a fully integrated design service for the BENCH Headquarters in Manila in the Philippines. Work has started on the 24-storey office building for the Philippines’ leading clothing and lifestyle brand, which will include offices, state-of-the-art design studios and event spaces together under one roof, creating a permanent home for the company in the city’s vibrant business district. Luke Fox, head of studio, Foster + Partners, said: “The new building is designed for its location with passive design strategies and optimised solutions, aided by our in-house tools for reduced embodied and operational carbon.” The building is located at the end of a prominent east-west axis in Bonifacio Global City. The side core arrangement opens up the ground floor of the building to green open space. A ground floor atrium provides direct access to the offices and an event space which can accommodate large-scale fashion shows, with a four-storey atrium located at the top of the building. Daylit lift lobbies and cores are placed laterally to produce spacious and flexible office floors above. This sense of openness is reinforced through the use of lightweight, long-span precast elements which result in column-free spans of more than 15
metres.The facade has been “calibrated” to allow enough light into the floorplate, while cutting out glare and reducing cooling loads, with the use of an awning system, explained Foster + Partners.
On the top four floors, workspaces are arranged around the atrium, which receives carefully filtered daylight from above. The interior design includes exposed concrete columns and precast concrete soffits paired with a terrazzo floor with recycled stone aggregates. The accessible rooftop is designed to host smaller events or team gatherings and explores urban farming ideas. It is shaded by an array of photovoltaic elements that generate more than 10% of the building’s total energy demand on site.
Driven by a desire to minimise the embodied carbon in the structure of the building, and in response to the high levels of seismic activity in the Philippines, the structural design of the building was “carefully optimised to minimise weight and achieve a high degree of balance and symmetry.” The design team also built carbon calculators to track all the materials in the building and measure the carbon emissions they would produce, from the concrete used for precast panels, to the various components of the building’s cladding.
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