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Category 1: Buildings
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Owner
cvba Waalse Krook
Architect
RCR Aranda Pigem Vilalta Arquitectes +
Coussée & Goris architecten
General Contractor
Antwerpse Bouwwerken + Valens
Engineering Office
Studieburo Mouton
Construction Period 09/2013 - 06/2016
The stacked floors of the new library in Ghent follow the ‘Krook’ (curve)
of the adjacent river Muinkschelde. The building’s
steel portal frames
are positioned 320 cm apart and fan out in the curves. These strongly
influenced the architectural design
. The characteristic columns and
beams are welded box sections with recessed flanges. The columns and
beams are not treated with fire-resistant paint, in order to preserve the
desired natural aspect of the steel. The inner space of the elements is
filled with concrete, the cooling effect of which ensures a fire resistance of
45 minutes. The building’s crown is
an impressive 15.5 m cantilevered
floor on the southern side above the entrance. The cantilever is made
possible by three storey-high frames, which are a mixture of truss and
Vierendeel girder. Horizontal stability is ensured by concrete floors and
stair-cores of fair-faced concrete. The floors act as assisting compression
slab for the steel beams.
Two
bridges
will connect the raised square to the other side of the river.
Both bridges are welded steel structures. SCIA Engineer was used for
both the building (
global model
, extraction and processing of calculation
results) and the bridges (dynamic analysis in function of comfort and a
second-order calculation regarding buckling sensitivity).
New Library ‘De Krook’ and Pedestrian Bridges - Ghent, Belgium
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Contact
Guy Mouton
Address Koningin Astridlaan 225
9000 Ghent, Belgium
Website
Studieburo Mouton is a
structural design office
that has acquired a
special position within the Flemish architectural landscape. The office is
ready to be involved in the architect’s very earliest design stage. Its aim
is to provide a stability study in which the interaction with the architect
strengthens the design. Its main endeavour is to arrive together with the
designers at
an intrinsically superior design process and structure
.
Mouton envisages a powerfully expressed consolidation among partners
that creates a superior final project.
Studieburo Mouton bvba
