Abhishek Sharma

Work / Practice

BBS Construction Head Office

A single-storey office and warehouse for a general contractor, with two rental units attached. I drew every sheet of the architectural set and carried it from the first coordination issue in February 2022, through three permit issues and City comments, to issued for construction in December.

Type
Commercial and industrial
Place
Carp, Ontario
Year
2022
Role
Architectural technologist. Drew the complete architectural set
Firm
BBS Construction (Ontario) Ltd.
Set
A01 to A10, thirteen revisions
Issued
For construction, December 2022
The completed building: stone base, wood-finish siding and the orange entrance canopy.

The set covers plans, elevations, sections, envelope and roof details, door, window and assembly schedules, a reflected ceiling plan, barrier-free washroom details and the limiting-distance analysis.

Each exposing face was checked for spatial separation under OBC 3.2.3.1(4). Rated separations are built from listed ULC designs, and the universal washroom is detailed to the clearances and mounting heights of OBC 3.8.3.8.

Sheet A03 pulled apart into four layers, from the bottom: slab and grid, program, circulation, daylight.
North elevation as issued for construction, coloured to the sheet's own material legend.
Revit massing model with the sun path for Carp, 45.3° N. Shadows cast for June 21 at 3 pm.
Wall sections at the entry canopies and the curtain wall. Canopy steel is foam-filled to break cold transfer through the envelope.
Section at the low eave.
Curtain wall at the high eave.
North, east, south and west elevations with the material legend.
Standing-seam roof on a liner system, verified to U-0.026.