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Aberdeen Building
Award
SMC Parr Architects' new Marine Operations Centre at Aberdeen Harbour
has won this year's only Aberdeen Civic Society Award. 051006
Parr Architects are one of the four scottish practices bought up by SMC
in the last week catapulting the SMC Group to being Scotland's largest
architects
Aberdeen Harbour Masters' Tower

photos from 2006 © Adrian Welch
Marine Operations Centre Aberdeen - SMC Parr Architects 2006:
SMC Parr Architects new Marine Operations Centre at Aberdeen Harbour,
which opened its doors last month, has already been given recognition
for the quality of its design - a prestigious Award from the Aberdeen
Civic Society, presented at a ceremony last night. The new Centre was
the only project to receive a full Award from the Civic Society this year.
The new state-of-the-art building will control all vessel movements into
and out of the busy harbour, and succeeds the old Navigation Control Centre
known locally as The Roundhouse, built in 1803.
The Marine Operations Centre sits on a prominent site, within the Footdee
Conservation Area, where the North Pier meets the main land mass. The
design concept was the interaction of two interlocking forms; solid and
light. The solid element - built from precast concrete with pure white
aggregate as a metaphor of a lighthouse - contains the stair, lift and
toilet core. The light element, containing the main accommodation spaces,
has facetted glazing around its perimeter which provides reflections of
the setting of the building. The ground floor area has been kept to a
minimum to lighten the connection between the building and the surrounding
landscape.
The Centre is organised around a strict set of operational criteria in
terms of security, visibility and interior comfort. A further key requirement
was to consider environmental factors a mixed mode ventilation/cooling
system utilises displacement ventilation for the main floorplates, with
the solid core used as a thermal mass and vertical ventilation stack.
Aberdeen Harbour Marine Operations Centre - Facts:
Main Contractor: Sir Robert McAlpine
Length of Contract: One year
Value: £3.7m
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