Les Mercuriales

Description

Design and construction

• The architecture of the tower was inspired by the twin towers of World Trade Center in New York City.
• The two towers are built on a foundation consisting of common equipment rooms and loading docks, accessible to heavy load trucks.
• Each tower consists of a reinforced concrete central core encompassing the elevators, freight elevators, escalators and vertical ducting. The central elevator core on each floor is protected by automatically closing fire doors. This core supports the floor slabs, supported by columns on the periphery.
• The columns are set back from the edge of the floor slabs to allow a continuous façade skin, stiffened with metal studs. The non-structural exterior curtain wall allows maximum natural lighting to the floors. It also reduces the visual mass of towers and provides a more fluid design, accentuated by their location in a residential area of low height.
• The partitioning of offices is completely modular and each floor can change from closed offices to full open plan.
• The elevator's batteries for each tower are distributed in two groups of six. Each group serves the first 16 levels or the next 15. Each battery also includes an outdoor loading dock that connects the basement to all floors.
• The 30th floor is the top floor of the offices. The top two floors consist of local storage, the air conditioning systems and broadcasting equipment.
• A covered central mall distributes the public between the two towers and also serves the common services.

  Antennas