Norman Robert Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank, OM, RA, HonFREng is a British architect and designer. Closely associated with the development of high-tech architecture, Foster is recognised as a key figure in British modernist architecture.

1. NORMAN FROSTER
“The best architecturecomes from synthesisof allthe elements
that seperately comprise a building”

2. NORMAN FROSTER
• Born in 1935 in Manchester, England.
• Manchester School of Architecture.
• Master’s degree in Yale university .
• “TEAM 4” 1963- Norman Wendy, Sue Rogers and Richard
Rogers.
• Froster’s associates (now knowns as Froster and partners)-
1967 in Mary Axe, London.
• Awards
Pritzker Architecture Prize(1999)
Stirling Prize (1998)
Royal gold medal(1983)
AIA old medal(1994)
Princess of Asturias Award for the arts(2009)
Mies Van der Rohe award(1990)

3. DESIGN PHILOSOPHY
• Quality of our surrouning has direct influence on the quality pf our lives, weather that is on workplace, at home, or in public realm.
• The structure that holdss it up.
• The services tat allows it to works.
• The ecology of the building -
naturally ventilated,
quality of light
• The material used, their masses or their lightness.
• The character of the spaces.
• The process of ‘reinventaion’ distinguishes all his works - past and present - and rests on the duty to design responsibly - whether
that is at the scale of an airport or a door handel.
• The relationship of the buildings to the skyline or streetscape.
• Belives that “Architecture is generated by the needs of the people, both material and spiritual” .
• The way in which the building signals its presence in the city or the countryside.
• “The quality of our surrounding has a direct influence on the quality lives”

4. DESIGN ELEMENTS
 Environmentally aware in design and creates ecologically
sensitive building.
 Uses lines to form organic shapes.
 Skeleton of the outside of the building is visible to the
eye rather than hiding it.
 Many spaces inside are enclosed in glass and almost
cause you to feel as through you are outside.
 Strength of size.
 Open planning.
 Use of natural light.
 Wide range of building material.
 Attention detail.

5. HSBC BUILDING
(world local bank)
• LOCATION : QUEENS ROAD,
CENTRAL, HONG KONG.
• CONSTRUCTION : 1865
• BUILDING TYPE : COMMERCIAL
OFFICE
• AREA : 99000 Sqm

6. HSBC BUILDING
• The clients brif to froster associates, after they had won the commision in
1970, was quite categorial what was required was nothing less than the
best bank in the world.
• The site, at the head of the statue square, is one of the most spectacular
thing.
• the exterior is a vigourously modelled combination of aluminium clad
structure and transperent panels tp express the rich mixture of the space
within.
• The bank building has a public base, a private summit and a central
section composed of semi private and semi public space.
• The main body of the bank can be reached by 3 sets of lifts.
• Visitor are set-down at each of the double height level and complete their
journey by escalator.
• At street level, a 12m height public pedestrian concourse runs clear
beneth the building.
• A pair of escalators raise-up to the main banking hall, its 10 story atrium.
PLAN
SECTION
public
space

7. HSBC BUILDING
INLET OF NATURAL
LIGHT
ENTRANCE FROM THE
STATUE SQUARE
BAMBOO
SCAFOLDINGS
WERE DONE
ESCLATORE AT
PLACED AT AN
ANGLE.

8. RENAULT DISTRIBUTION CENTER
 LOCATION : SWINDON, ENGLAND
 CLIENT : RENAULT UK LTD
 CONSTRUCTION : 1980-1982
 HEIGHT : 10M
 CAPACITY : 250
 AREA : 63,000 sqm

9. RENAULT DISTRIBUTION CENTER
• Described as the practices most playful structure.
• The centre was commissioned as the French car manufacture
main UK distribution facility.
• In addition to the warehousing it includes a showeroom, training
school, workshops, offices and staff restaurants.
• supportive local planners increased their size development from
50% to 67% allowing the footprint area to be 25,000sqm.
• housed within a single enclosure support by a brightly coloured
tubular mass and arched steel beams that contrasts the green
landscape.
• this expansive horizontal span is combined with an internal clear
span of 7.5m.
• enveloped by a continuous PVC membrane roof, pierced by glass
pannels at each mast, the building is also stepped at one end,
narrowing to a single open bay that forms a porte-cochere
alongside a double height gallery.

10. RENAULT DISTRIBUTION CENTER
PLAN
SECTION
import &
export
service
restaurant
gallery
entrance
parking

11. RENAULT DISTRIBUTION CENTER
• Steel was used as the main part of the structure.
• The structure has smoke vent on the top.
• There is glass glazing to the roof for natural lighting.
• There is a cladding of inTerchangeble glass panels.
umbrella of light
weight steel
cross section of how the
structure and the fabrication
is been done .
natural light

12. RENAULT DISTRIBUTION CENTER
structural system (yellow) which goes contract with
landscape
structural system where showing
the vertical and horizontal support.