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Kensington Legion No. 264

Calgary, Canada

The Kensington Legion No. 264 project is a development that houses the Royal Canadian Legion in a modern, mixed-use facility in the Calgary community of Hillhurst.

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Kensington Legion No. 264

Calgary, Canada

The Kensington Legion No. 264 project is a development that houses the Royal Canadian Legion in a modern, mixed-use facility in the Calgary community of Hillhurst.

The project is part of a progressive partnership between a private developer-builder and the Kensington Legion. The new Legion building is a four-storey concrete structure containing kitchen, office, and social function spaces for the Royal Canadian Legion on the lower floors. The two upper floors contain commercial office space intended for long-term revenue generation. The building features a prominent and engaging design at street level to help foster a community-focused neighborhood and a slender rooftop halo feature to provide unique impact from a distance.

location

Calgary, Canada

Awards

2016 Charter Award for Neighbourhood, District, and Corridor, Congress of New Urbanism2016 Award of Meting, Canadian Institute of Planners

Client

Truman Development

Size

2,787 m² (30,000 ft²)

Architect

S2 Architecture

Budget

$10 M

Role

Structural Engineering Consultant


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Challenge
A column-free floor plate was desired for the third and fourth floor office areas. This created the need for a 12-metre span to the exterior columns on the south side.
Solution
Unbalanced span conditions meant optimizing the slab thickness as necessary to provide the greatest economy to the structural system while still maintaining consistent slab edge detailing to suit a repetitious glazing system.
Challenge
The architectural halo presented a design challenge for which we were asked to span nearly three-quarters of the entire building length.
Solution
Different material options were investigated and analyzed for wind vibration to determine the most feasible structure while still maintaining the architectural vision.

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