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Work is set to start next month on ZHA proposed retrofit of Monaco\u2019s first high-rise building, the 85m-tall Le Schuylkill tower in Monte Carlo. The practice won the \u00a3146 million job to overhaul the 61-year-old hillside apartment block in 2016, following an invited competition which also featured Herzog & de Meuron and Daniel Libeskind.<\/span><\/p>\n

The 40-month project will see the tower given a major sustainability-focused overhaul, with the top three storeys deconstructed and replaced by six penthouses. The block currently comprises 193 apartments but after the refurbishment that number will drop to 142, although the floor space of the entire building will increase by more than a quarter to 40,900m\u00b2.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Visualisation of proposed balcony detail<\/p>\n\t

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According to the design team, led by ZHA director St\u00e9phane Vallotton, a 2019 feasibility study \u2018demonstrated that renovating the existing building was preferable [to demolition and building anew] from both a financial and environmental stance\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n

The scheme will retain the block\u2019s concrete structure, with redundant materials, such as aluminium profiles, removed for off-site recycling, reuse and repurposing. The project is set to be the first in the Monte Carlo neighbourhood to tap into Monaco\u2019s seawater heat pump loop infrastructure. The system is expected to generate 70 per cent of the energy the building needs for heating, cooling and hot water.<\/span><\/p>\n

Externally, a new skin has been designed to improve thermal insulation, airtightness, waterproofing and solar protection. Walls will be made 20cm thicker and the area of external terraces and balconies will be increased by 23 per cent.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Proposed south fa\u00e7ade balcony detail<\/p>\n\t

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New acoustic measures will also be introduced to replace the sand which currently sits within the concrete floors.<\/span><\/p>\n

The scheme is backed by SAM Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 Immobili\u00e8re du Soleil, a company run by Sylvia Ratkowski-Pastor, whose grandfather, Gildo Pastor, built the original tower. Sat on top of seven below ground floors, it was designed, as Vallotton describes, as \u2018three separate villas sat side-to-side, repeated 17 times and stacked on top of each other\u2019. <\/span><\/p>\n

The block was constructed on the site of the Villa Le Soleil \u2013 the former home of French socialite B\u00e9atrice-Charlotte de Rothschild and her banker husband Maurice Ephrussi \u2013 which was demolished in 1952.<\/span><\/p>\n

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