An all-glass canopy and glass-beam pools in a shopping mall courtyard.

MBY engineered the all-glass canopy forming a distinctive architectural feature within the courtyard of Lotus Shopping Mall. The design was developed through advanced structural modelling, allowing the behavior of the glass canopy, its supporting steelwork and their interfaces to be assessed as an integrated system.

A central design consideration was the sensitivity of the glass frame supports to structural settlement and deflection. The supporting steel structure was therefore designed to provide the required level of stiffness and dimensional control at these critical interfaces. The scope also included the structural design of glass pools using a bespoke laminated-glass system with glass beams, creating a cohesive solution for the project's specialist glass elements.