canteen and Wanooka Heritage buildings provide staff and executive facilities .
Phase II provides 11,820m 2 of offices with further executive entertainment facilities and 563 basement parking bays over 5 basement levels .
The floor plate widths are 17m , allowing the development to achieve the required Gross Rentable Area . The wider floor plate width has generated the need to raise the floor to ceiling height to 2,750mm in order to achieve an improved level of comfort for the staff .
The brief from the tenant KPMG was to occupy a building that maximised the external views , since the site is located on the top of the western portion of the Parktown Ridge .
The west façade comprises a glazed shopfront , with an external screen wall 2.5m from the glass front and provides sun screening without obstructing the external view .
The gallery is 12m wide and is a triple volume area with natural light gained from above by means of skylights as well as clear storey windows on the roof slab .
The gallery is aligned with Girton Road as a response to the urban structural fabric of Parktown . This will provide a ‘ streetscape ’ from within the building contextualised with the Parktown road network .
is made by the use of specialised demountable partitions that can accommodate the reticulation of power and data in the lay-in channels . The benefit to KPMG is that an office layout change can be undertaken over a weekend with minimal disruption to operations .
SUSTAINABILITY The design process and the finalisation of the design meant also that the corporate commitments of Old Mutual and KPMG towards sustainability and sustainable design had to be accommodated .
FLEXIBILITY Any high tech corporate building requires extensive power , voice and data network reticulation to support the business . In the case of KPMG an overhead saturated reticulation ceiling was decided upon . The use of the overhead system
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