Millennium Water Parcel 5, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada,
by Jonathan McGaha | October 5, 2011 12:00 am
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.
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