Al Muneera Office Building
Client: Aldar Properties PJSC
Matt Brindley – Project Director for Kann Finch Group
Al Muneera is situated on an island and mainland site 30 minutes outside Abu Dhabi within the Al Raha Beach Development. The A$1 billion development consists of 1184 apartments in sixteen 15 storey towers, 148 4 bed townhouses, 11 luxury villas, a 15 storey office building and 20 outlet retail precinct. Two road bridges and a pedestrian bridge connect the two sites.
Matt designed the 15 storey commercial tower at the centre of the mainland site. It has 1000sqm rectangular floor plates with central core. It has a ground level café and commercial lobby with roof top air conditioning plant connected to the district cooling system for the Al Raha development.
The design has an 87% efficiency with only 4 internal columns. The major façades are a cost effective prefinished insulated spandrel with ribbon windows and a precast concrete panel system for the shorter end walls. These panels provide privacy to the residential towers either side of the building. The sun shading and cleaning access system incorporates aluminium grid panels hung on stainless steel cables.
With a team of 50 staff, Matt directed the documentation of the entire project Trisha Brindley designed the colour schemes and material selections in coordination with the Al Raha Design Director.
