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To help soften the impact of the new buildings presence on the surrounding landscape the 54 metre diameter quarter-sphere end required an over-cladding that would obfuscate the harsh detail of the externally mounted cooling equipment and yet would allow the necessary volume of air through it.
The architect identified a 50% open mesh fabric as delivering on these functional criteria. To enable this relatively light weight material to perform structurally it contains galvanised steel threads which are woven through it to a regular pattern.
Delivering a structural solution required us to develop a fully engineered aluminium fabric clamping detail that would complement the inherent flexibility of the fabric thereby ensuring that the daily stresses and strains imposed on these very large wind catching sails would dissipate uniformly into the enclosing skeletal steel frame.
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