PROJECT DATA
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Client: Annen Plus SA Architect: Valentiny hvp architects, Remerschen. Yves Weinand, Liège Timber Engineering: Bureau d’Études Weinand, Liège (BE) Technology Transfer: Laboratory for Timber Construction, IBOIS, EPFL, Prof. Yves Weinand, Didier Callot, Petras Vestartas with |
PROJECT
The Annen Head Office Project consists in a series of 23 vaults with spans ranging from 22.5 m to 53.7 m (due to the constraints of the project and the terrain) and constant high and width of 9 and 6 m respectively. The project will accommodate a 5800m2 facility including a timber prefabrication factory space and offices.
Each arch is a double-curved shell structure with a design inspired by Eladio Dieste’s Gaussian mansonry vaults. The shell is made of two interconnected layers of timber plates assembled with through-tenon joints. The vaults present overlapping s-shaped cross-sections. The plates are interconnected using 1DOF integral joints between all the plates (vertical and horizontal) to benefit at its most of the locator and connector properties.
A prototype with 7.1 m span, 1.75 m width and 2 m height has been built for an exposition at the Advances in Architectural Geometry (AAG) conference in September 2016 and has been re-built for the Open Days 2016 of the EPFL. Built with 15 mm-thick spruce plywood panels, the arch was decomposed in six different modules assembled together with bolts. To avoid any clearance of the plates during the assembly of the six modules, all the plates have been glued between them (avoid initial slip). As the prototype had to be placed in an exposition room and could therefore not be anchored in the ground, specific supports had to be built.
The construction site is in progress, it started beginning of 2019. Follow the advancement of the construction on our Instagram account : @ibois_epfl
MORE INFORMATION
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A Double-Layered Timber Plate Shell – Computational Methods for Assembly, Prefabrication, and Structural Design |