Masjid Noor: piled foundations and podium structure
A community building on a constrained urban site where an existing pile layout had to be surveyed, assessed and extended before any new structure could be designed above it.
What the project needed.
The site carried an existing piled foundation from earlier works. Before anything could be built above it, we needed to establish what was actually in the ground, what capacity it had, and where new piles were required to carry the proposed structure.
Work carried out
- Survey and drawing of the existing pile layout
- Combined existing and proposed pile layout, revised through two issues
- Proposed pile and substructure layout design
- Substructure detailing
- Ground and podium floor structural design
- First floor and roof structural design
What masjid noor actually involves.
Building over an existing piled foundation is a different problem from designing a new one. The piles are already there, their positions are rarely exactly as originally drawn, and their capacity depends on records that may or may not exist. The first drawing we produced was the existing pile layout, because everything else depended on it.
The proposed layout then had to work with what was there rather than against it. New piles were positioned to complement the existing grid, and the substructure was detailed to transfer load between old and new without relying on assumptions about the original work.
Above ground the structure runs from a podium floor through to roof level, with the structural design issued as a full set: ground and podium floor, first floor plan, and roof plan.
Masjid Noor
14 CAD files and 13 drawing and report documents across the project record.
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