Jashinmal headquarters commercial and office building is the twenty-one article on projects from practice. This project’s architectural design was completed in 2009 in the capital of UAE. The project was transferred for licensing in another city due to its location. Our consultancy firm signed an agreement with the consultant and the client to take off the building permit and planning approval with all its modifications. and construction was completed at the end of 2010. The project is the headquarters of a famous brand in the country dealing with home appliances Jashinmal. The building is a commercial and office multistory building in the Al Barsha area. It is composed of four basement floors, a ground floor, twelve typical floors, and roof floors. The architectural design is from the international style of architecture in terms of external form. I took the responsibility of architectural design development and coordination with other team members to complete the architectural design building permit approval in 2009. Managed some critical issues of the regulations for the parking lots with authorities and gained approval as well as the build-up area problem that was exceeding the allowable BUA and plot coverage. This area, Al Barsha was a newly planned area after the competition of the Mall of the Emirates and announced the residential land use for the majority of its plots. In recent years the planning authorities changed the regulations and allowed commercial and office land uses. The area is at the boundary of an industrial zone on one end and mixed-use urban development on the other. Most of this area is a hotel and hotel apartment buildings, residential buildings for moderate-income people. See Figures 1 and 2 external photos of the project from the front road and backside road.
As apparent from the two project photos, the building’s architectural design is similar and identical on both sides and differs from the backside elevation. The area population is moderate-income people and it’s an attractive zone for tourists and foreigners to live in because of the mall’s proximity.
The basement floor is designed to fulfill the requirements for the car parking lots. Every 500 Sqft of the commercial area should have one parking lot. The basement and large areas of the ground floor were designed for that requirement. Due to a shortage of floor area in the basement, the services were shifted to the top roof floor. See Figure 3 basement four floor plan.
Most of the service functions preferred that the consultant design it on the ground floor. As a general regulation, all setbacks should not include any function or building. In this project, as the regulation permits the electrical substation and LV room were located in the setback adding to that the ramp going to the basement floor. The municipality allows residential land use to have a watchman flat or owner’s office for renting and management of the building. See Figure 4, the ground floor plan showing all the service functions.
The typical floors, 12 floors, are identical in architectural design. The typical floor is symmetrical in two directions, the x and y direction, and minor change in the area of vertical circulation. One side of the building has three sets of elevators while the other has none. The elevator and car lift circulation calculation output gave three elevator requirements. The typical floor plan has symmetrical rooms offices and one central open space for workstations. The architectural external design is symmetrical, but the interior is designed differently in each floor to the roof floor. See Figure 5 the 10 typical floor plans of the project.
The common practice to include in the architectural design of any commercial building project, if allowable, is a service floor to fit in all the mechanical equipment’s and related components. The alternative solution is to have a roof floor that includes all services of electromechanical equipment’s and related components. In this project, the mechanical equipment’s occupied to roof floors due to a shortage of areas. See Figure 6, the upper roof floor plan.
The front elevation shows the entrance and services functional design within the elevation design. The clear architectural language of the external face of the service rooms is presented in aluminum louvers shown in the elevation design drawing as well as the main entrance and parking entry. The simple and clear functional indications in the elevation give easy access to the building for tenants and visitors. The front elevation is different than the rear elevation and it’s symmetrical on two sides only. See Figure 7 the front elevation of the project.
The project section shows various architectural design matters. The floor height required for the ramps for the basement, the air well and its required dimensions, the car lift core, the architectural features of the roof, the car park arrangement of the basement floors, and the roof deck at the top roof. See Figure 8, the project sections.
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