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Re-industrializing Vancouver : a speculative high-rise industrial building for the ’superport’

University of British Columbia

The TRANSCOM building is a speculative high-rise industrial building proposed for the Central Waterfront Port Lands site on Burrard Inlet, Vancouver, BC (directly to the east of Canada Place). Designed for 24 hour/day, 7day/week use, The TRANSCOM building incorporates innovative cargo delivery systems to ensure that all five (double height) floors are equally well served. In particular, a large external crane runs the length of the building's west side, delivering intermodal containers to private and shared corridors on all floors. The comprehensive site plan includes waterfront walks and parkland that will be shared with the public. It is therefore assumed that government and private industry would jointly develop the waterfront 'industrial park' of which the TRANSCOM building would be the first of several similar buildings. Specifically, the TRANSCOM building is intended to be a 'state-of-the-art' industrial facility purposefully located with high visibility to showcase vital Canadian Manufacturing. Three primary goals drive this proposal. First, exploit the opportunity to locate manufacturing right at the convergence of material, labor and other resources, as well as at a direct 'gateway' to world markets. Second, achieve more productive land use than is usual in current industrial practice - a response to increasingly scarce industrial land supplies in Vancouver. Finally, develop a building system which by practical means; accommodates the widest possible tenant use, achieves an increased building life cycle, and effects reduced operating costs. Concepts central to the design strategy include: maximizing land use by several means, freight access by conventional and container means to all points, reuse and reconfiguring of 'core' building, natural ventilation and solar controls, designing to enable shared use of resources and amenities.

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2009-05-05

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http://hdl.handle.net/2429/7888

Architecture

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