GLASS PAVILION

ARCHITECT: PROJECT TEAM: SANAA: Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa Toshi Oki, Takayuki Hasegawa, Keiko Uchiyama, Mizuki Imamura, Tetsuo Kondo, Junya Ishigami TOLEDO, OHIO 2000 2006 TOLEDO MUSEUM OF ART
INSULATION CLEAR ANODIZED ALUMINUM SIDING FLASHING PLYWOOD

ROOFING MEMBRANE

INSULATION

MOISTURE BARRIER METAL DECKING BEAM W12 GIRDER

LOCATION: COMPETITION: COMPLETION: CLIENT:

INSULATION
WATER PIPES

STRUCTURAL ENGINEER: SAPS/ Sasaki and Partners Guy Nordenson and Associates

RADIANT HEATING PANEL METAL FURRINGS GYPSUM WALL BOARD CEILING 1/8 PIN 2 1/8 CAP 3/8 SET SCREW

1/2 LOW IRON LAMINATED GLASS

3 1/2 DIA STEEL COLUMN

3/8 LOW IRON LAMINATED GLASS

CAVITY

GRAVEL

SOIL 3 TOPPING CONCRETE RADIANT HEATING PANEL

MOISTURE BARRIER

INSULATION

CONCRETE SLAB

SCALE: 1=2

LATERAL BRACING IN THE GLASS PAVILION

In order to allow light to literally flow through the glass pavilion as the architects intended, visible physical structure was kept to an absolute minimum. The overwhelming majority of the buildings structure is concealed within the two foot thick roof consisting of a network of continuous girders and joists. Additionally, the girders are irregularly kinked in order to align with the supporting network of rolled steel columns while avoiding the appearance of a regular pattern created by the support system. The columns themselves are solid steel rods 3.5 or 4.25 inches in diameter. In order to maintain this minimal diameter, the girders above bear on pins at the top of the columns in double shear. The pins are fabricated from high-strength quenched and tempered ASTM A514 steel in order to minimize the diameter and to keep the connection detail above the ceiling. The small number of opaque walls within the building left few locations for lateral bracing when combined with the needs for mechanical and plumbing distribution. Nevertheless, three braced frames are located in the opaque walls at the Southwest, Northwest and Northeast corners of the structure. However, the majority of the buildings lateral stiffness is derived from the use of 3/4-inch architectural steel plate shear walls that form the Lampworking room at the Southeast corner of the building. The curved corner sections of the wall serve as columns to the girders above, with the curvature providing the necessary buckling resistance. The flat sections of plate are connected to the framing above with vertical slotted connections for the transmission of lateral loads only where buckling under vertical loads would be more critical. A section taken through the outermost steel plate in the Lampworking room is represented to the right detailing both its structural support and how it relates to the exterior glass facade.

INSULATION

ROOFING MEMBRANE

CLEAR ANODIZED ALUMINUM SIDING

METAL DECKING

INSULATION

WATER PIPES

MOISTURE BARRIER

INSULATION

W12 GIRDER

RADIANT HEATING PANEL

METAL FURRINGS GYPSUM WALL BOARD CEILING

1/2 LOW IRON LAMINATED GLASS

3/4 STEEL PLATE SHEAR WALL

MOISTURE BARRIER GRAVEL INSULATION SOIL CAVITY HEAT VENT

RADIANT HEATING PANEL

3 TOPPING CONCRETE

CONCRETE SLAB

SCALE: 1=2

ADVANCED BUILDING CONSTRUCTION, ARCH 427 WINTER 2011 David Moon ANASTASIA KOSTROMINOVA, BRYAN PANSING TAUBMAN COLLEGE OF ARCHITECTURE AND URBAN PLANNING, UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN 03.09.2011