Multi-functional building is a building creates to serve particular functions either for private or public sectors.
The concept of a single structure serving a multitude of functions is not particularly new, Any large city, for example, contains office buildings with stores on the street floor, residential structures built over shops.
Nowadays, we have begun to see buildings that are contains many functions like commercial, apartments and shops, these buildings that called “multi-functional building”.
A multi-functional building are emerged in past centuries and the concept are developed through the ages. This kind of building are become popular in this century in many countries to meet a lot of resident’s needs.
Multi –functional buildings are considered as a very important type of buildings in any developing city, Because it has many benefits for residents of the area and the site in general, such as saving time, money, and effort for the population of that region in general , and the residents of the building in particular. This is due to the existence of all functions that they need in the same area.
These types of buildings are also friendly with the environment, the short distance that population have to pass every day without any doubt reduce the bad effect of car’s pollution on the environment, so it helps to revive the region with a clean environment, away from traffic congestion and exhaust fumes.
The idea from this project is to create a distinctive building; such building has multiple activities like social, commercial and residential, etc.
The building has been designed of all aspects of construction such as structural design (one way ribbed slab), architectural design (Revit), electrical design, mechanical design, quantity surveying (QS), heating and air conditioning (HVAC) total heating load equal to 25.16 kW and total cooling load equal to 31.5 kW.
The total cost of the project has been calculated and equal to 4064006 NIS