As part of the PRR, we were present in Santa Maria da Feira as part of the 2nd edition of the Mobilizing Agendas and Green Agendas for Business Innovation.

At this session, we were introduced to R2UTechnologies - Modular Systems by one of the members of this project's integrating group, presenting the new construction cluster, with the primary objective of developing industrialization based on modular construction and prefabrication. We also introduced the parties involved, the differentiating concept and gave a summary of the working method and the agenda's developments with a view to achieving the expected results.

We will continue to provide innovative answers to the sector's challenges and bring new ideas to life.

At this session, we were introduced to R2UTechnologies.

Business Innovation

Business Innovation.

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New London hotel The Emory presents the perfect showcase of RSHP’s signature functionalist style and hospitality group Maybourne’s elevated luxury.

Twenty years ago, when RSHP first met Maybourne, the Emory was barely an idea; the acclaimed architecture studio was approached to work with the luxury hotel operator on a new entrance for its other property in the neighbourhood, The Berkeley. It resulted in the light-feeling canopy made of a series of 16 sleek, carbon fibre beams that elegantly adorn its period-inspired facade to this day. Sat next to it, The Emory, ‘London’s first all-suite hotel,’ which just opened in Belgravia, is the latest - and largest - product in the long, fruitful relationship that ensued. 

The Emory: a feat of design and engineering
RSHP partner Ivan Harbour was a key force in the project from day one, alongside the legendary practice co-founder Richard Rogers, who remained involved until his death in 2021. The Emory’s location is in one of central London’s most highly sought-after corners, and naturally it influenced the project’s design development. 

‘The Emory is part of a family of projects that we created around The Berkeley so, in that context, we were aiming to create something very clear on a site that is very dense and already fully occupied,’ says Harbour. ‘It had to be something that could be constructed as much as possible off-site, and so it had to have a level of rational thinking in the way it was organised. It was about making strong, rational decisions that would inform the construction process. What we created only exists because of the project’s pragmatic constraints.’ 

If in doubt about the project’s high level of precise engineering and function-led design, a look at the main façade will convince you otherwise. The Emory stands proudly overlooking Hyde Park, its captivating network of steel outriggers peeking out from its rooftop-like masts, their slim steel rods running down the clean, functionalist façade, helping to define a neat grid of openings for the suites behind it. 

Digging deeper (pun intended), the way the structure nestles into the earth right next to the tunnels that serve the London Underground’s Piccadilly Line without transferring vibration to the rooms above is another technical feat. The superstructure is built around a steel core that runs the height and length of the building and contains the circulation space. Off it, hangs a larger, steel ‘box’, created around a frame by Portuguese specialists Bysteel. This volume spans upwards and outwards from level one, leaving the ground floor free to offer » unobstructed views of the leafy park vistas beyond, the sightlines projecting just above car roofs on the busy road outside.

‘We had to plan the building’s bones very carefully for safety and stability, of course, but also for flexibility in use,’ Harbour explains. ‘The building’s hanging system has to do with balancing the loads on either side of the site, so there are fewer loads on the tunnels’ side and no loads on the neighbouring Berkeley hotel.’ RSHP worked with engineers Expedition through the early conception stages and then with WSP through to construction, carefully calculating options that would offer the best solutions for the particular site. 

‘The three main opportunities we have taken as a result of the building’s hanging system and the roof’s outriggers are: creating a panorama on the ground floor, as the arrangement means it is completely free from columns; the desire to create an interesting roof terrace, as placing the visible steel elements on top makes it a place rather than just a terrace, and celebrates the structure; and creating a skyline feature in the building’s modern-day ‘chimney pots’,’ says Harbour. He explains that The Emory’s three-dimensional layered façade is part of a ‘composition’, a gesture that offers a 21st-century interpretation of the ornamental detailing found on period structures. 

 If all this feels fresh and forward-thinking, then stepping inside and experiencing the hotel for itself strengthens these claims. The Emory launches as a rare-in-London hospitality offering, with eight levels of accommodation (plus a top floor housing a penthouse and rooftop social spaces), and each floor featuring just a handful of ‘rooms’ (there’s a total of 60 and every single one is a suite, comprising living spaces as well as generous and luxurious dressing and bathroom options). 

The structure’s modular arrangement means that units can be combined or used separately, and entire floors can be transformed into a large apartment complex for a single guest. Four designers – leading industry names André Fu, Patricia Urquiola, Champalimaud Design and Pierre-Yves Rochon – are involved in creating two floors each, while London studio Rigby & Rigby created the penthouse.  

‘The concept behind The Emory was to create a hotel with the same feeling as a luxury residential setting: discreet, elegantly restrained and exquisitely private,’ says Knut Wylde, The Emory’s general manager. 

‘Everything is considered with the utmost care, and part of RSHP’s ingenious design plan is a special modular layout system on each floor, which allows multiple suites to be privately interconnected by closing off sections of the main corridors, making their own entrance lobbies. This creates bespoke ‘residences’, offering families (particularly intergenerational families – an increasing » trend) and groups the opportunity to have their own inner sanctum within the hotel, where time becomes the ultimate luxury.’ 

The ground level also takes a refreshingly unusual approach. Visitors enter from the side mews street on Old Barrack Yard and are led through an open-air reception into a discreet check-in area and ABC Kitchens, a restaurant helmed by renowned chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten. ‘We wanted an anti-lobby, a ‘side’ door so, when entering the hotel, you first see the circulation spaces and kitchen, where the employees have as good a view of the park as the diners,’ says Harbour. 

Rémi Tessier is behind the common areas across the ground level, including the restaurant, and rooftop, which contains The Emory Cigar Merchants and Bar 33 in its twin glass volumes. The ground-floor Emory Bar features a bespoke faceted glass canopy by artist Brian Clarke. On the lower-ground levels (which extend to four floors, including a plant level), the expansive and minimalist Surrenne wellness members’ club was also designed by Tessier and champions some of the finest treatments for longevity and well-being in town. 

Even as much of the interior bears a variety of creative signatures, the building’s RSHP bones allow for everything to coexist in harmony and discretely greet visitors at various points – from the striking pink staircase, its pop of colour paying homage to Richard Rogers and his love of bright hues, to the thick springs that absorb movement and are just visible at the entrance level, and the immaculately precise steel elements that surround the rooftop’s two glass pavilions, which are for hotel guest use only. 

‘We probably underestimate how unusual The Emory is,’ Harbour concludes. ‘We do projects all around the world, but this is special. We don’t do many hotels, and the fact that this is part of a lasting relationship with Maybourne is beautiful.’ Indeed, full of character and defined by its ability to offer choice to its guests, RSHP’s first-ever luxury hotel in London feels like a rare treat, and is now open for business.

https://www.wallpaper.com/architecture/the-emory-hotel-rshp-london-uk

Image credit: Leon Chew

The Emory, RSHP’s first luxury hotel in London, is a rising star

The Emory Hotel

bysteel participated in the XIV CMM Congress, where it presented, in technical sessions, several works recently carried out around the world in metal construction.
With two nominations for the PROFESSOR EDUARDO DE ARANTES E OLIVEIRA AWARD, we brought home the title of winner with "BERKELEY HOTEL - Sequence of tensioning of the visible exterior structure.

With two nominations for the PROFESSOR EDUARDO DE ARANTES E OLIVEIRA AWARD, we brought home the title of winner

PROFESSOR EDUARDO DE ARANTES E OLIVEIRA AWARD

The Richard Rogers' Drawing Gallery, by RSHP, featuring our super-iconic steel structure, wins the prestigious Dezeen Awards 2022 in the Small Building of the Year category.
"This project is magical in its simplicity of thought and in the complexity of its execution. The design concept behind it is very clear and has been translated almost perfectly into the built form, which required an extraordinary feat of engineering", as stated by the jury.


See more in: https://worldarchitecture.org/architecture-news/egmfn/richard-rogers-new-gallery-supported-by-orange-steel-beams-cantilevers-out-27-meters-over-hillside.html

2022Richard Rogers' Drawing Gallery - award  Dezeen Château de la Coste  Small Building of the Year

Richard Rogers' Drawing Gallery - Dezeen Prize

Richard Rogers' Drawing Gallery - award  Dezeen

bysteel fs won the SME Award in the Innovation, Technology and Industry category, of the award Portugal Inspirador.
The award ceremony, promoted by Santander and Cofina Media in partnership with InformaD&B and Accenture, took place on November 9th, in Lisbon.
This award aims to honor those who stand out in the Portuguese business panorama for their ability to dynamize, innovate and enhance the development of the national economy.
We share a feeling of gratitude for this recognition of the growth we have had since we launched in the market and as a result of our internationalization ambition. “What inspires us are the challenges of our customers and the restlessness of our teams”,mas mentioned by our CEO Rodrigo Araújo.

2022 bysteel fs Prémio PME na categoria de Inovação, Tecnologia e Indústria, no Prémio Portugal Inspirador.

bysteel fs – SME award, Innovation, Technology and Industry category

bysteel fs – Prémio PME Portugal Inspirador Santander

bysteel will build the superstructure of "one of the largest" and "most sensitive dark matter detector" ever developed, which is expected to go into operation next year.

The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) has awarded bysteel the manufacture of the metallic structure for a dark matter detector, which will be installed at a depth of 1,400 meters at the National Laboratory of Gran Sasso, in Italy.
This contract, referring to part of CERN's work in the construction of Darkside-20k, includes the manufacture of the superstructure for a cube-shaped reservoir, 12 meters high and will have a capacity for 730 tons of liquid argon. This will be one of the largest dark matter detectors in the world.

“As CERN is one of the largest and most respected research centers in the world, naturally the work carried out here will make bysteel even more capable of manufacturing the most rigorous steel superstructures” as stated by our administrator, Rodrigo Araújo, who was in the conversation with Jornal Construir about the recent project for CERN.

Darkside-20k  dark matter detector cern contract bysteel dst

bysteel wins CERN contract

bysteel cern project

bysteelfs, a dstgroup company, won a contract with a value
of five million euros for the construction of the architectural 
envelope of the Arena Porte de la Chapelle.
This arena will serve as a stage for the badminton and 
gymnastics events of the Olympic Games in 2024 and for 
badminton and weightlifting events at the 2024 
Paralympic Games taking place in Paris, France.
The contract signed with Bouygues is part of an 
operation valued at one hundred and thirty six million 
euros promoted by the Parisian council. The architecture 
jointly conceived by the offices SCAU and NP2F comprise 
a façade of approximately ten thousand square meters of 
aluminium, glass and composite material, whose design and 
execution is the responsibility of bysteelfs and it will be built 
and complete in five months. The work will be ready in the 
summer of 2023.
In total, the infrastructure of twenty six thousand square meters 
will have a room with a capacity for eight thousand spectators, two 
gyms for the residents of the poorer local communities, 
and a leisure and commercial area with two thousand six hundred square 
meters. Three thousand square meters of green areas will be 
created, six thousand square meters of gardens in the roof areas 
and an area with panoramic views over the city.
The reduction of the environmental impact was a 
challenge of the utmost importance both in the project
and in the management of this work. More than 95% of 
the nine hundred and forty four tons of waste produced in construction 
will be recycled and 45% of the concrete used is low carbon, 
reducing the emission of one thousand three hundred tons of CO2. In addition, 
parts of the non-bearing walls will be built 
with blocks of earth and the eight thousand chairs for 
spectators will be made from seventy tons of plastic 
waste collected from the nearest blocks.
“Participating in a project with this level of environmental 
concern is very important for us because it is an 
opportunity to confirm the paradigm shift in the 
construction. More and more is being invested in 
innovation, in the search for more efficient and 
sustainable. It is in this greener future that bysteel and 
bysteelfs are put.” comments Rodrigo Araújo, ceo at 
bysteel.
After the 2024 Olympic Games, the Arena Porte de la 
Chapelle will be Paris' home Basketball, the biggest 
basketball club in the French capital, and will also 
function as the cultural hub in the north of the city 
serving as a stage for great shows.
“France is one of the great shipyards in Europe” France 
was the market for which in 2012 bysteel started its 
process of internationalization in Europe. In 2012, the 
first contract, with a value of two hundred and fifty thousand euros, 
opened doors to what is now the geography with the highest 
volume of business for bysteel and bysteel fs. With more than one 
hundred and fifty contracts signed in France, we regularly 
work in partnership with major construction companies 
such as Vinci, Bouygues, and Eiffage.
The business portfolio of bysteel and bysteelfs in this 
geography in the current year exceeds fifty 
million euros. This amount includes iconic works 
such as the renovation of the office property PB10 (now 
Altiplano), in the financial center of La Defense, or the 
LDLC Arena, in Lyon, which will be the largest venue 
outside Paris and will have the capacity to sixteen thousand 
spectators.