Atrium furniture store
IGUBA
Miletièova 70
821 09 Bratislava
Slovakia
Tel.: +421 2 5341 7053
Fax: +421 2 5341 6692
Contact:
M. Ivan Guba
Email:
My company
IGUBA was established in 1997. I am a stat-
ic engineer, 47 years old and am working
alone.
My annual turnover is between
20.000 and 30.000 Euros.
Areas of competence:
• Structural engineering
• Civil engineering: all about static and
construction
• Design of the static of residences and
commercial buildings
• Diagnostics of bearing constructions
• Technical consulting
Projects since 1990
• Lift shaft of 120 m height for Boiler Steam
Structure? 2x500 MW in Shen-Tou
• Some platforms for Boiler Steam Struc-
ture? 2x360 MW Jorge Lacerda IV (Brasil)
• Reconstruction of Bank “METROPOL”,
Bratislava (Slovakia)
• Steel Structures of
many Tank- and Oil-
Stations “AVANTI” (now SHELL) in Slovak
Republic,
Czech
Republic,
Hungary,
Austria, Rumania, etc.
• Commercial
building “Swietelsky” in
Bratislava (Slovakia)
• Secondary
Combustion
Chamber
&
Steam Boiler and Flue Gas Cleaning in
Nyborg (Danmark) - see
my project in
SCIA USER CONTEST Book 2002, p. 80
Technical data of the project
This project contains the static of a 750 t
heavy steel structure (S235) and a 750 t
heavy concrete construction (B30 and B40)
for the Commercial and Business Building
“ATRIUM -
House
of the Furniture” in
Bratislava - Slovakia,
where the steel struc-
ture was mounted from January to Septem-
ber 2003. The total length of this structure is
102,90 m, the width between 8,25 to 20,50
m, the area 1550 m² and the volume more
than 40.000
m³. The building costs have
been 4.000.000 Euro.
Description of the Steel structure
The static system is a space frame in both
directions. The steel structure consists of
two main dilatation structures and 13 mod-
ules (6 + 7) with a length of 7,50 m.
The steel structure consists of 41
main
columns, connected to one another
with
horizontal beams on levels of relevant floors
and minimum cross bracings - due to archi-
tectural
de-sign. The steel structure is
designed as a self-supporting static system,
which is able to transfer horizontal and ver-
tical forces into the foundations and into
the two steel-concrete boxes for both of the
main dilatation structures,
which create a
stable unit due to its rigid walls. The access
to relevant floors is enabled in these steel-
concrete boxes via sideways concrete stair-
ways and lifts.
The steel structure is open at the ground
floor, here garages for cars are foreseen.
On
the following floors the walls are clad with
ALU glass- and thermo- panels. The con-
structional height of every floor is 4,20 m.
Wall cladding is stiffened
by
auxiliary
columns and cross- bracings between eleva-
tions +3,00 and +13,70 m.
Description of the Parts of the Steel
Structure
The main columns are designed of broad-
flanged beams
HE600A (0. to 3-th floor)
and HE300A (4-th to 5-th floor). There are
erection joints on two elevations of the
structure. Transversal beams are
made of
open-section rolled steel beams. The con-
nection of col-umns and beams is made by
means of steel sheet flanges and bolts. The
floor beams are made of open-section rolled
steel beams.
The various parts are connected with bolts
in the erection phase. The beams are
secured against yawing with profiled sheets
with a thickness of 1
mm under the steel
concrete floors.
Why is this Project so important?
The individual floors serve as exhibition and
sales areas for luxurious furniture goods.
The lower area is an enormous parking
space for cars, by means of a lift the client
has direct access to the exhibition and sales
areas without having to leave the building.
The
main en-trance is accessible from the
street through a bilateral platform, one of
which serves as an entrance for the dis-
abled.
All the floors are connected, both by
lifts and inclining planes, all visible from the
outside through the glass façade. The high-
est two stories serve for the
management
and offices. The building is filled with high-
level furniture, a new
market seg-ment in
Slovakia.
With its architecture, significance and sup-
ply of goods, this sales space is therefore
meeting the requirements of even the most
demanding clients.
Why is this Project so special?
Frame cross beams in the
main
modulus
axes are positioned in transverse direction,
they are so-called cellular beams of an over-
all height of 900 mm with circular apertures
of diame-ter 600
mm. Cellular beams are
manufactured with a specific technology on
special produc-tion lines, on order, from IPE-
profiles 500
mm. After long negotiations
with the investor and the architect, the steel
structure
was designed from steel, fully
revealing,
without any hiding structures.
Severe aesthetic demands
were imposed
with regard to connections, surface, dress-
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