David Brower Center PT Shear walls

The David Brower Center / Oxford Plaza Housing is a model of integrated sustainable design. This mixed-use urban project comprises office space for nonprofit organizations engaging in ecologically beneficial work, a conference center, a restaurant, affordable housing, retail space, and below-grade parking. The David Brower Center portion of the project was designed to achieve a LEED Platinum rating from the US Green Building Council. The building incorporates natural ventilation, sophisticated natural day-lighting strategies, photo-voltaic panels, and rainwater collection. The building's lateral system embodies Tipping Mar's philosophy of integrating sustainable design and high-performance seismic engineering. The system uses post-tensioning cables in ductile shear walls and moment frames to create a damage-resistant structure with restoring-force characteristics.

The use of slag, an industrial byproduct, will reduce the embodied energy and carbon footprint of the building on the order of forty percent. This is the first Bay Area project to use high-slag concrete on such a large scale. Both the high-slag concrete and the recentering structure are being proposed for LEED innovation credits.

Architect: WRT | Solomon ETC

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Structural
• animation
• shear
• walls
• PT
• LEED
• post-tensioning