Aretz Dürr Architektur has built a building with clear lines, a wooden structure and a translucent envelope made with a shell of multi-chamber polycarbonate pieces. The rectangular building extends from north to south for 60 meters and it is planned that the current 1,500 square meters will be doubled with a future expansion of another 60 meters to the south.
"The forty-meter-long glued timber beams with a centre distance of six meters extend for twenty-four meters and cantilever a further eight meters to the east and west. Joined by couplings and horizontal compression bars, and covered with trapezoidal sheet metal, the carefully balanced and widely cantilevered load-bearing structure is optimized by the specific distribution of the roof loads in combination with the structural order.
The result is beam cross sections measuring 24 by 120 centimetres. The supports are partially held in the transverse direction and in the longitudinal direction they are held by three external compression bars."
Aretz Dürr Architektur.
Halle S // 46. Graf Zeppelin Hall by Aretz Dürr Architektur. Photograph by Ben Schumann.
Halle S // 46. Graf Zeppelin Hall by Aretz Dürr Architektur. Photograph by Ben Schumann.
Project description by Aretz Dürr Architektur
Located in the industrial and commercial area in Altenkirchen, the new factory hall and logistics centre of Schumann Project GmbH was built as a wooden truss structure in a construction period of six months.
The primary construction consists of timber trusses in a six-meter axis grid. These are stored in the forks of divided supports. The widely projecting trusses relieve pressure on the middle of the field and generate slim component dimensions.
A translucent polycarbonate facade with double-part sectional doors surrounds the storage and production hall.
