Millennium Water Parcel 5, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada,
Posted
10/6/2011
Completed in November 2009, Millennium Water Parcel
5, located at First Avenue and Manitoba in
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, is a mixed
use structure comprised of two buildings on a commercial podium
that was originally constructed for the 2010 Winter Olympics and
2010 Winter Paralympics. Parcel 5 is the smallest parcel in terms
of floor space within the Millennium Water community, a sustainable
urban neighborhood development comprised of 122 buildings
established for two distinct purposes: to accommodate the Olympic
Game participants and to uphold its future legacy. In this case,
the city of Vancouver specified that all buildings in the Olympic
Village be designed to meet LEED Silver requirements at a minimum.
During the Olympic Games, the Village accommodated more than 2,800
world-class athletes, coaches and officials.
The architect, GBL Architect Group, Vancouver, differentiated
Parcel 5 from the other residential buildings in the development by
designing market units with an average size of approximately 565
square feet. Through units with openings to the outside on each
end, the apartments in Parcel 5 have high ceilings, luxury finishes
and sustainable design amenities.
The architects used Aluminum Composite Material as wall panels
on the exterior façade, column covers, soffits, the interior and
exterior walls of the entry and to define the balconies. A color
palette that paired neutrals like custom Mazda Grey and Bone White
with a vivid custom Electric Orange were chosen to give Parcel 5 a
distinctive modern aesthetic. Compass Cladding Inc., Aldergrove,
British Columbia, Canada, fabricated the panels and installed
insulation, vapor barriers and the ACM panels in its dry joint
rainscreen system.
Eastman, Ga.-based Alcoa Architectural Products supplied 45,000
square feet of 4-mm Reynobond ACM with an FR core in custom Mazda
Grey Colorweld 300XL; 12,000 square feet of 4-mm Reynobond ACM with
an FR core in custom Electric Orange Colorweld 300XL; 7,000 square
feet of 4-mm Reynobond ACM with an FR core in Cadet Grey Colorweld
300; and 2,000 square feet of 4-mm Reynobond ACM with an FR core in
Bone White Colorweld 300. Millennium Development, Vancouver, is the
building owner, and ITC Construction Group, Vancouver, was the
general contractor.
Alcoa Architectural Products,
www.alcoaarchitecturalproducts.com
