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Grain silo house tall1/24/2024 ![]() ![]() The remaining internal tubes were removed to make room for the gallery spaces. The cut edges were polished to give a mirrored finish that contrasts with the structure’s rough concrete aggregate.Įach of the carved tubes was capped with a 6m diameter panel of laminated glass that brings daylight into the atrium. The new concrete sleeves created a stable composite structure 420mm thick, and provided a cutting guide for removing portions of the old silos which were pared back to reveal the curved geometries of the 4,600m3 atrium. The idea of resleeving the cylindrical forms with a layer of reinforced concrete was developed, thus creating an entirely new building structure in and around the old and able to hold the old in place.” “The remaining silo walls were no longer structurally integral but needed to be held in their original form. “ The storage annex matrix of 42, 30m high tubular silos was carved away internally to create a multi-storey gallery to the east, as well as the large atrium cut out to the west,” Archer explains. The column loads were transferred through major reinforced corbels into the new cores. Three primary columns were cut away at lower levels, as part of the atrium cut out at the interface with the adjacent tubular silos annex. Original filler joint floors were strengthened with a reinforced topping slab, and new reinforced concrete slab floors added within the lower silos. ![]() New cores were needed both for escape stair, lifts and risers but also for stability as the original perimeter concrete wall panels were to be removed to open up the building at low and high levels,” Archer explains. ![]() “The grading tower was a multi-storey steel structure that was robust and generally in good condition. A concept was developed to carve out the atrium at the museum’s heart, to provide access to the gallery floors organised around it and tie these two structures together. Though the concrete building looks like a single structure, it has two parts: a grading tower and a storage annex of 42 cellular silos. The storage annex matrix of 42, 30m high tubular silos was carved away internally These can be summarised as ‘re-use or strengthen where possible’, but also unashamedly ‘demolish and build’ bold new sympathetic structures to enable the vision of a functioning gallery and hotel.” “As the existing buildings were near 100% structure, both concrete and steelwork, we developed some basic structural principals with Heatherwick Studio to apply across the project. “On hearing of the architectural vision for the buildings, we visited the site and studied the archive drawings and photographs,” says Arup associate director Francis Archer. Included in the development is over 6,000m2 of exhibition space in 80 galleries, a rooftop sculpture garden, storage, conservation areas, a bookshop, restaurant, bar and reading rooms. The £30M, 9,500m2, not for profit public museum project is a partnership between the V&A Waterfront and German entrepreneur Jochen Zeitz. The team behind the reuse and renew project for client Victoria & Alfred Waterfront were Heatherwick Studio and Arup, working with local structural engineer Sutherland. The silo structures have been sliced to create internal space 776 9 hr zeitzmocaa heatherwickstudio credit iwan baan atrium at night ![]()
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