All about lifestyle
Built around lanes and squares, restaurants and meeting places, Freshwater Place offers refined living amongst the bustle of inner city life
At 208m high and 25m wide, Freshwater Place is an extremely slender building, so for the project to be successful, the structure needed to be efficient and readily buildable.
Winward Structures designed a structural system that utilised the full breadth of the building by incorporating outrigger walls into the structural system. In liaison with the architect, Winward used sophisticated three-dimensional modelling with finite element analysis to ensure the structural solution had minimal impact on the overall planning of architectural layouts in the building.
Other challenges were presented by site conditions. Most of the site is underlain by a basalt layer that was used to minimise foundation costs. The basalt dropped away in one corner, however, so Winward's design had to accommodate varying strata to ensure the tower would settle uniformly over its whole footprint. Site contamination also had to be dealt with. Rather than remove soil, a system of cut-off walls and a basement slab were designed to cap the site to meet EPA requirements.
Contact Winward Structures, 488 Latrobe St, Melbourne, 3000, phone (03) 8327 8600, fax (03) 8327 8699. Email: kwinward@winstruc.com, website: www.winstruc.com.
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