Architect and Builder June 2016 | Page 56

CENTURY CITY SQUARE CLIENT AND PROJECT MANAGER (OVERALL) Rabie Property Group PRINCIPAL ARCHITECTS & MASTER PLANNERS (OVERALL) Vivid Architects QUANTITY SURVEYORS B & L Quantity Surveyors (Conference Centre & Parking Structure) BTKM (Mixed-use Hotel, Retail, Apartments. Apex) PROJECT PLANNER Binnington Copeland & Associates STRUCTURAL ENGINEERS Aurecon Sonnekus & Toerien (Apex) CIVIL ENGINEERS (BASEMENT. INTERNAL ROADS) Aurecon ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS QDP Lighting & Electrical (Conference Centre & Parking Structure) RWP Cape (Mixed-use Hotel, Retail, Apartments) JD Reitz (Apex) HVAC ENGINEERS Basil Nair and Associates (Conference Centre & Parking Structure) WSP Consulting (Mixed-use Hotel, Retail, Apartments) Spoormaker & Partners (Apex) BULK SERVICES AND INFRASTRUCTURE (ELECTRICAL) Descom BULK SERVICES (CIVIL - CANALS, ROADWAYS & EXTERNAL WORKS, TRAFFIC & TRANSPORTATION) HHO WET SERVICES/PLUMBING Aurecon (Conference Centre & Parking Structure, Apex) WSP Consulting (Mixed-use Hotel, Retail, Apartments) ACOUSTIC AND AUDIO VISUAL DESIGN Mtshali-Moss Projects Africa RATIONAL FIRE DESIGN (ENTIRE SITE) Aurecon HEALTH & SAFETY Eppen-Burger and Associates FAÇADE LH Consulting (Apex) GREENSTAR CONSULTANT PJ Carew LIGHTING SPECIALIST QDP Lighting & Electrical (External Works) LIFT DESIGN Aurecon INTERIOR DESIGNER Source IBA (Conference Centre & Parking Structure) Origin Interiors (Mixed-use Hotel, Retail, Apartments) CONFERENCING CONSULTANT Plan Red ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL OFFICER Ecosense UTILITY ADMINISTRATION SERVICES UAS OFF SITE INFORMATION STORAGE EQF WIND SPECIALIST Adam Goliger TOWN PLANNERS & LANDSCAPING Planning Partners LAND SURVEYOR David Hellig & Abrahamse MAIN CONTRACTOR Murray & Roberts Western Cape PHOTOGRAPHY Fiona Barclay Smith; Inge Prins Photography 54 A ll great cities have an urban square that offers a dynamic, vibrant and safe environment for the public to enjoy. Century City Square is a unique new mixed-use development focused in and around an exciting public square in the heart of the Bridgeways precinct. ARCHITECT’S REPORT The precinct is bounded on Sable and Ratanga roads with access directly off Century Boulevard. A new internal roadway system was designed to access the development and adjoining sites along with a new one-way exit off ramp onto Sable road to mitigate tr affic pressure at peak times. The square was conceptualised as the heart and soul of this precinct as well as instigator, influence and generator for future development of this undeveloped area of Century City. The development comprises a number of buildings all sitting on top of a single level super basement that includes a conference centre, a hotel, commercial office space, residential apartments, a structured parking building and “folly” pavilion at the open end of the square. All buildings enjoy nested parking areas in the super basement below and dedicated secure access controlled entrances at both basement and ground floor levels. Vivid Architects were tasked with the urban design framework of this precinct. The current layout and design has recognised and reinforced the needs of the pedestrian user over vehicles, an appropriate human scale and massing of the square, the importance of existing gateways, focal points and view corridors and a full understanding of the optimum orientation and wind protection. The architecture has employed the maximum use of glass at the ground floor plane to ensure transparency and the seamless interface between inside and out, whilst the brief has ensured that restaurants, coffee shops and the hotel`s public areas spill out onto the square to ensure that there is a constant life and energy. The scheme has also taken cognisance of the new regulations governing the disposal of storm water and, for this reason, it was an opportunity to extend the existing Century City canal system, not only to deal with the storm water, but also to give the urban square a water’s edge that will compliment the hard and soft landscaping of the precinct. The overall precinct plan has been thoroughly interrogated to ensure strong pedestrian connectivity between this new urban environment and the existing broader Century City. Special care has been taken to encourage pedestrian movement patterns and to ensure that the pedestrian experience is predominant over that of the vehicle. Traffic Century City Square