{"id":334,"date":"2012-10-13T19:14:37","date_gmt":"2012-10-13T19:14:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alucobondusa.com\/blog\/?p=334"},"modified":"2025-09-10T18:43:31","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T18:43:31","slug":"alucobond-natural-meets-unique-design-twist-at-sustainable-2010-winter-olympic-village","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alucobondusa.com\/blog\/alucobond-natural-meets-unique-design-twist-at-sustainable-2010-winter-olympic-village\/","title":{"rendered":"ALUCOBOND NaturAL Meets Unique Design Twist At Sustainable 2010 Winter Olympic Village"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Project Name:<\/th>\nSoutheast False Creek Olympic Village<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Project Location:<\/th>\nVancouver, British Columbia, Canada<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
ALUCOBOND\u00ae Materials:<\/th>\n77,000 sq ft 4mm ALUCOBOND\u00ae naturAL Brushed<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Year of Installation:<\/th>\n2009<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Architect:<\/th>\nNick Milkovich Architects<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Fabricator\/Installer:<\/th>\nKeith Panel Systems Co., Ltd.Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
General Contractor:<\/th>\nITC Construction GroupVancouver, British Columbia, Canada<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Images:<\/th>\nKeith Panel Systems, Nick Milkovich Architects, Michael Elkan<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Three architectural firms were challenged by the Vancouver Organizing Committee to design Millennium Water:\u00a0 The Southeast False Creek Olympic Village in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, for its first use as a temporary home for many of the 2,600 athletes from 82 nations competing in the 2010 Winter Olympics. (The Olympic Games were held Feb. 12-28, 2010, in venues located throughout Greater Vancouver, as well as in the resort town of Whistler, British Columbia, where additional athletes were hosted.)\u00a0 More permanently, Millennium Water was designed as a sustainable mixed-use residential and commercial community, incorporating not only environmental sustainability but social and economic sustainability goals as well.<\/p>\n

At 1.4 million square feet and an estimated total cost of $1.075 billion, Millennium Water is the largest single-phase development in Canada.\u00a0 The Olympic Village, which was awarded LEED-ND Platinum status, encompasses seven city blocks and includes 16 residential buildings \u2013 all of which were awarded LEED Gold certifications.<\/p>\n

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The Southeast False Creek Olympic Village \u2013 which was built on a former industrial site \u2013 was designed as a showcase for green building, incorporating leading-edge techniques ranging from green roofs to toilets flushed with the aid of rainwater.\u00a0 The entire complex is heated by sewage; and, renewable energy systems, including solar panels and solar hot water systems, generate power for households.\u00a0 Building materials were chosen for their sustainability, including their embodied energy use over the building\u2019s lifespan in the form of required maintenance and upkeep.
\nKnown as Canada House, Parcel 4 served as the temporary home of Canada\u2019s athletes during the Olympic Games. \u00a0This parcel was designed by Nick Milkovich Architects, Inc., of Vancouver, with Arthur Erickson, CC, the internationally celebrated Canadian architect and urban planner, as a design consultant.<\/p>\n

The unique design of Canada House incorporates a fish-scale surface achieved with approximately 77,000 square feet of ALUCOBOND\u00ae naturAL in the 4mm thickness fabricated into 7,000 individual panels.\u00a0 This sculpted architectural image reflects the property\u2019s waterfront location overlooking Vancouver Harbor at the northwest corner of the Millennium Water development.<\/p>\n

The $75-million Canada House residence consists of two buildings \u2013 the 106,100-square-foot 12-story West Building and the 55,750- square-foot seven-story East Building \u2013 offering 60 condominium suites.\u00a0 A public courtyard featuring a reflecting pool and light sculpture separates the two buildings. The original building design was reconfigured from a u-shaped massing to two separate buildings to allow the greatest amount of sunlight to flood the courtyard and waterfront public walkway and bike path to the north of the site.<\/p>\n

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The sculptural shaping of the buildings, according to Milkovich, was done to allow more early morning sunlight to reach the public garden and park to the west of the site.\u00a0 To achieve this goal, the west building leans away from the park by 15 feet over its 12-story height through a rotation of floor plates.\u00a0 The same movement was applied to the lower seven-story building.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe resulting dynamic silhouette of the buildings is enhanced by the cladding of glass and brushed aluminum \u2018fish scales\u2019 that catch the changing light of the day creating interesting shadows articulating the textured skin,\u201d said Milkovich.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese buildings were very unique in the village,\u201d said Carlo Gatti, business development manager, Keith Panel Systems (KPS) Co., Ltd., in Vancouver, which fabricated the ALUCOBOND\u00ae naturAL and installed it with the proprietary KPS System \u201cA\u201d Plus, which features a dry-joint pressure-equalized rainscreen.<\/p>\n

KPS became involved in the project in a design assistance role two years prior to its completion, according to Gatti, who said the design complexities of the fish-scale look required weekly meetings to solve interface connections on the building.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll issues were resolved in these design assistance meetings,\u201d said Gatti.\u00a0 \u201cWe used typical details floor-to-floor to design the panel system.\u00a0 And, to accommodate the twist in the building, we ensured the panel dimensions were field measured. \u2026 To create the fish scales, we fabricated wedge-shaped panels.\u00a0 The assembling of our proprietary frame to the ALUCOBOND\u00ae was unique.\u00a0 We tested it for structural and rainscreen performance.\u201d<\/p>\n

KPS proposed the use of ALUCOBOND\u00ae naturAL in response to the architect\u2019s specification of a natural-looking metal.\u00a0 Each building floor features a fascia band with the fish-scale design fabricated from ALUCOBOND\u00ae naturAL.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe ALUCOBOND\u00ae offered a quality finish in terms of performance over time, and it offered the flexibility to make any size panel with no oil canning,\u201d said Gatti.\u00a0 \u201cThe ALUCOBOND\u00ae composite also gave us flexibility in completing unique closures and profiles.\u00a0 The head and sill panels at the window in this project were comprised of irregular shapes.\u00a0 With Alucobond, we could keep the edges crisp.\u201d
\nAt one point in the design process, the architects considered utilizing insulated glass for the fish scales, according to Milkovich, who said this material was rejected as too expensive.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe wanted a material that would be a little reflective, and the ALUCOBOND\u00ae gave us reflection,\u201d said Milkovich.\u00a0 \u201cIt could carry the fish-scale shape and the ALUCOBOND\u00ae strip (fascia) along the building. \u2026 Compared to other metals, the ALUCOBOND\u00ae was thicker.\u00a0 It doesn\u2019t oil can.\u00a0 And, it provides a good flat surface.\u00a0 The south fa\u00e7ade of these buildings is nearly solid Alucobond.\u201d<\/p>\n

While Gatti often sees architectural specifications for stainless steel to achieve a metal look, one of the reasons he recommends ALUCOBOND\u00ae aluminum composite material is because it features a clear coat that prevents visible marks being left when it is touched during installation.
\n\u201cIn the case of Canada House, the ALUCOBOND\u00ae naturAL reflects the color of the atmosphere,\u201d said Gatti.\u00a0 \u201cAs the sun hits the panel, it produces an interesting effect.\u201d<\/p>\n

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It took KPS approximately six months to fabricate the ALUCOBOND\u00ae naturAL panels, according to Gatti, who said the panels were fed to the site as they were required.\u00a0 Canada House was the last parcel to begin construction at the Southeast False Creek Olympic Village; and, KPS was the final trade to work on these buildings under the supervision of general contractor ITC Construction Group of Vancouver.\u00a0 Canada House was turned over to the Vancouver Organizing Committee in October 2009.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith the Olympic Games looming, we couldn\u2019t slide the deadline,\u201d said Milkovich.\u00a0 \u201cWe knew that the repeated pattern would make construction fairly fast.\u00a0 But, with the shape of the building, not every piece would be the same.\u00a0Keith Panel Systems did a marvelous job.\u201d
\nAdded Gatti:\u00a0 \u201cEven though we were put in a tight position, we managed to finish two weeks ahead of schedule.\u00a0 The job completion date on this project was non-negotiable.\u00a0The athletes had to move in.\u201d<\/p>\n

KPS received the 2010 Vancouver Regional Construction Association\u2019s Gold Medal in the President\u2019s Trade Awards category for its involvement in the design, development and installation of the ALUCOBOND\u00ae panels featured in the KPS System \u201cA\u201d Plus on Canada House.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Project Name: Southeast False Creek Olympic Village Project Location: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada ALUCOBOND\u00ae Materials: 77,000 sq ft 4mm ALUCOBOND\u00ae naturAL Brushed Year of Installation: 2009 Architect: Nick Milkovich Architects Fabricator\/Installer: Keith Panel Systems Co., Ltd.Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada General Contractor: ITC Construction GroupVancouver, British Columbia, Canada Images: Keith Panel Systems, Nick Milkovich Architects, Michael […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[11,39,37,38,28,29,40,54,47,52,30,49],"class_list":["post-334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-case-studies","tag-acm","tag-acp","tag-aluminum-composite-material","tag-aluminum-composite-panel","tag-architecture","tag-design","tag-exteriors","tag-green-building","tag-leed","tag-office","tag-residential","tag-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alucobondusa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alucobondusa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alucobondusa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alucobondusa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alucobondusa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.alucobondusa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4882,"href":"https:\/\/www.alucobondusa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334\/revisions\/4882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alucobondusa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alucobondusa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alucobondusa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}