Mixed-use development located in Douala, Cameroon, comprising a 5-star hotel, offices, and shops. MFS was commissioned to develop the concepts and design development for the buildings’ envelopes as part of the project’s design team, from the sketch phase to the construction monitoring phase. The various facade systems include framed curtain walls for the hotel, stick […]
MFS assisted Powell Dobson Architects on this 6 Block residential scheme, each block comprising of 22 storeys. The development comprises over 1,000,000 square foot of developed units, is residentially led with 485 residential units of mixed sizes, a 225 room hotel with 55 serviced apartments, a gym, private school and amenity space. The project is […]
A new mixed-use development including residential floors, hotel and school located adjacent to Canary Wharf in London. The facade system is primarily comprised of bespoke unitised factory fabricated curtain walling including feature elements such as brise soleil forming the design intent. MFS assisted with facade design development and ongoing inspections of the key installation steps.
MFS assisted Jestico + Whiles on this complex geometry formed glazed and metal clad rainscreen balcony wrapping construction on this large multi-use development in Edinburgh. The glazing comprised of sloped, facetted vertical spanning elements whilst the aluminium skin, which wraps the balcony construction, was parametrically analysed in Stage 3 to facilitate off-site production techniques and […]
New multifunctional complex with elegant hotel, congress centre, mall and 90 luxurious villas will overlook the Mediterranean Sea in the town of Gammarth in Tunisia. On this exceptional large-scale project, MFS developed design of different facade types such as stick system facades, frame structures, feature cladding and feature elements, structurally glazed point fixed facade supported […]
A Stratford hotel on the site of the 2012 Olympics. This facade consists mainly of unitised system curtain walling with double glass units and vertical feature aluminium fin extrusions with heavily textured bronze anodized finish.
MFS were appointed on this scheme to assist the architects in the technical development of the facade concept. This facade concept comprises of a fully unitised curtain walling solution with a ‘floating’ stacking joint arrangement. This floating stack joint allows the principle of a facetted skin with staggered vertical mullions to be realised. This facetted, stepping mullion unitised […]
The Minories scheme is a mixed use development in the City of London comprising a Hilton Hotel, a high end residential building and a medium rise commercial office development. The hotel portion of the scheme is primarily a refurbishment incorporating feature multi-planar metalwork fins and vertical strip glazing whilst the office development comprises of a […]
The new NOBU Hotel in Shoreditch is the first hotel offering in London of the eponymous restaurant brand. The cladding comprises of a stick system curtain walling construction of high performance glazing and board marked opaque panelling whilst the dominate feature of this building is the sloped ‘de-constructed’ elevation. This feature which wraps the generous […]
This Rogers Stirk Harbor + Partners designed scheme has an exoskeleton cruciform shaped column superstructure resulting in the use of a unitised spandrel and unitised window wall construction. The unitised spandrel design has been informed by the thermally isolated superstructural penetrations with the whole curtain walling, including the factory fabricated assembly of internally reinforced extruded […]