OAKS Prague – Golf view apartments

This apartment house has become as a part of the new OAKS Prague residential estate in Nebrenice. Whole object was designed by Vivian Lee when working for New York design studio Meier Partners.

The scope of supply of us consist of fabrication and assembly drawings of steelworks. Steelstructures were used for balcony shading, interior and exterior staircases, glass handrail framing, attic extensions and canopies. We had to solve many technical points in detailing in order to maintain the Architect´s most focused aim – to get clean, aesthestic form of the building. By continuing and by assigment from the Builder, we moved our design 3D model to another level. This model become a platform for coordination of suppliers, a tool for moderating the interfaces of different suppliers and a finallly a subject of many given approvals. We had to model all concrete structures, facade and shading cantilevers made of timber or aluminium profiles and finally glass guard rails.

We used steel for structures that were in our scope. The secondaries were made of alluminium, cedar timber and glass. Closed hollow profiles were required only in welded, straight edge form. Coatings are duplexed, combinating hot-hip galvanizing and final coatings. Glass fillings of handrails were inserted to U-shape alluminium profiles of Umakov brand.

The challenging point is to cover all different and complicated details of balcony shading where the devil was hidden in thermal splits together with different thermal expansion of used materials.