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An office is the building that many people spend the greatest amount of their waking life in. But work has broken through the walls of the office. Computers are no longer tethered to the desk. The rise of wireless technology, satellite communications and portable laptops mean that a computer can be connected to a network without being in a fixed place. And the increasing quality and richness of the social connections offered by virtual networks means that new kinds of collaboration are possible in the virtual field What is the value of physical space when so many of the tasks that are part of office work can be accomplished outside the office? How do the qualities of space enable or hinder that work? Does place become more significant as people are able to choose where to do their work? If the borders between work and home have been challenged by digital communication technology, and the values of employers are often under pressure from responsibilities at work, these proposals examine how domains of different activity can be woven together, and through existing spaces with defined activities, increasing the opportunities for complex life arrangements to achieve balance. What sort of building might offer a shared office space that people would choose to be in, giving them the qualities of environment that they needed to be as productive as possible, and enabling them to achieve a healthy balance in their lives. In trying to find a way to approach this design problem a key question has been main, how do you put value on and judge between, different kinds of organisation strategy within buildings.
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With the increased use of digital technologies and networks huge amounts of data can be worked with and communicated. The world’s capacity to store and communicate this information is growing exponentially. In 2002 the total amount of information created in all medias was roughly equivalent to 500,000 times the information contained in the material held by the Library of Congress. By 2007 this figure had doubled, and its rate of growth is increasing. Every worker is now asked to transmit the information equivalent of six newspapers each day and receive 174 newspapers of data (much of that reflected in video and photos).
With no attachment to place, the worker faces an ever growing torrent of information
7 designs
Through the day the workers position is static, but the atmosphere changes
Tree is ‘strapped’ to outside of office tower.
design no1: SPARKLING TREE Though its product may be immaterial and more and more sited in a digital environment, the worker occupies a space, and the atmosphere and arrangement of that space has an impact on how work progresses.
The ‘leaves’ are constrctucted of lightweight reflective materials in a variety of colours.
A worker sits at their desk all day to complete a report. The space is the same, but the atmostphere is animated by the change in light coming through the window. The sparkling tree enlivens the blank glazing of modular office cladding. Research has shown the complex effect that spatial richness has on a worker’s ability to think and problem solve - specify particular research...
Staring into space...
Space alive with dancing sparkles
‘Branches’ extend, following the movement of the sun across the sky, and the strength of the sunlight, providing shade where required.
‘Flowers’ bloom in relation to the quality of interaction between people.
Tree responding to exterior conditions, but also connected to the human action inside. Proposals for tensioned ‘frame’ of the tree ‘Leaves’ flutter in relation to the flow of data, creating an alive backdrop to concentration.
tree blown by new winds The sparkling tree is buffetted by the wind blowing outside the building making the leaves tremble and creating different moving light conditions within the interior. But the movement of the tree, and the way it behaves in reaction to the wind, is also directed by three other forces: 1. it responds to the movement of the sun providing shade where requires, 2. the quality of how the leaves flutter depends on a ‘digital wind’ - the production of information within the office, 3. and the presence of social interactions among the workers.
Coreographing the movement throught a day
design no2: COLLABORATION DESK This desk is designed for workers who share the same space but do not interact. It forces them to collaborate by connecting the two chairs with a see-saw.
The layout of the office floor has to accomodate the constraints caused by the collaboration desk. Workers collaborate with colleagues how share similar working hours, and are are of a similar weight.
ACCOMODATing CONFLICTING VALUES design no3: THE HALF/HALF RULE An office is organised around a corporate structure, with management responsible for the implementation of the priorities of the company, to be achieved through supervising and directing the labour of workers. Here management may frequently have different priorities from the workers. It is traditionally argued that workers are motivated to work by the financial rewards they receive which they invest in their lives outside work. This view however has been complexified by the understanding that people get different kinds of satisfaction from their work. There are several key areas of interest here: Bradley, Erickson, Stephenson, Williams, Myths at Work
- how is an worker’s identity recognised within a corporate identity? - the lives of workers hold many different responsibilities outside their efforts for a company. How are these recognised and enabled by the work environment. - how are different behaviours able to co-exist within the same office space?
A new social contract is proposed by The Half/Half Rules. In exchange for their labour the company running the office is required to give the worker their salary, and 50 percent of the floor area of the office to be given over to worker initiated activities, in this instance a swimming pool.
Lars Tunbjork, Office
The pools are arranged such that they occupy a portion of each floor of the office building alongside one exterior wall. This allows the existing office windows to be maintained, becoming under water windows.
Different parts of the office tower are given over to worker control
Albrecht, Broikos, On the Job
Worker identity as recognised bycorporations as they design working environments
design no4: COLLAGE-WEAR The foyer of an office block often expresses corporate identity. This design reoccupies the foyer as a space of uncontrolled, semi-public exchange, an informal tailoring operation, where clothes are enchanged and customised.
A typical modular office facade offers no control to the inhabitant aover the quality of the connection to the outside.
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design no5: collage-skin A fabric wall is assembled from pieces of clothing traded in by the workers. The patches of the wall are connected using an elasticated string. Tightening or loosening the string allows the worker to control the size and position of openings within the wall. The skin is responsive to any combination of openings and degree of permeability that the worker wishes for. This is in contrast to the prescribed control offered by the standard environmental services in office buildings.
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Position on wall where worker makes the adjustment
THE ‘REACH’ OF THE OPENING POINT - ‘modulus of attraction’ corresponding to the tightness of the elastic string
parametric iterations The parametric programme allows us to imagine how a system of interconnected strings would alter the facade according to the user’s wishes, as they pulled or loosened the strings through the toggles.
modular construction serves the real estate investors not workers design 6: ad-hoc balcony (half floor meeting room) The real estate practices current in office building in the UK are responsible for a normaltive style of building. These are inefficient in several ways. - They are heavily dependent on mechanical servicing using large amounts of energy, - The space is strictly demarcated into floors, giving a limited amount of connections within the building, - The aesthetics of modular construction techniques speak more about corporate dreams of control and efficiency, rather than creative intelligent workers. The ad hoc balcony allows office workers to create their own spaces to attach onto the existing structure, performing whatever function they require.
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worker controlled function The structure disrupts the monotonous unitised facade of the office tower, and creates corners, hidden rooms, short cuts and dramatic views to be enjoyed by the office workers. The glazing panel is removed from the cladding panel and the inhabitable window is constructed on site.
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timber panels make up walls and floor suspended from the secondary structure
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lightweight frame above Fabric cladding hangs from the secondary structure to provide insulation and rain protection
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In trying to define the ‘body’ of the office, is it simply the physical boundary of the office walls? The actors within the space spend a particular time each day inside the office, but the rest of the time they disperse across the city in their homes, shopping, visiting doctors, schools or friends. Also, the resources that allow the office to function arrive from different places around the city. Frank Duffy estimates that during working hours an average office space is only occupied 60% of the time.
Duffy, Work and the City
In the self sufficient zone road traffic is removed from the city and replaced with farm land. Farm buildings are positioned as required in shop premises, and unrented office space. In this way the City can produce more of the food that it consumes, and the office workers can experience a natural activity close by. The air quality will also be greatly improved.
Worker’s homes are separated from the office. Each day they must commute to and from the office, and perform other activities across the city, for example delivering children to school, shopping, or visiting a doctor.
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hypotheses EXTRACTED FROM ZOETROPE The creation of a zoetrope allowed significant actions from the field of office work to be examined precisely, and a set of hypotheses for desirable spatial qualities to be extracted.
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zoetrope The zoetrope was a ground on which the 6 designs could be put together into a single space, inviting connections between the designs, and typological reflections. For example, how water might be introduced in a band into a space, or the moments of transition between stripes holding different programmes.
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Background The complex of office blocks on Euston Square was constructed in 1980 by British Rail to house its main administrative requirements. The buildings were designed by Richard Seiffert. When British Rail was privatised in 1993 by John Major’s Conservative government the buildings were sold to a property investment company called Sydney & London Ltd. This company represents the property investment interests of a private individual, Michael Gross.
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Having purchased the buildings Sydney & London then leased the office space to the new company which owned the railway infrastructure, Railtrack. And the complex is still provides the office base for Network Rail, the new rail infrastructure company, and a range of other private rail operators. Buildings Michael Gross MBE
The estate has a total office area of 305,000 sq ft. split between four buildings. 1. Grant Thornton House, 69,309 sq ft, with a typical square floorplate of 7,970 sq ft. 2. 40 Melton Street, the total area is approximately 116,070 sq ft, with a square floorplate size of 7,840 sq ft.
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3. One Eversholt Street tower has 55,102 sq ft. of space 4. One Eversholt Street Podium, which is connected through the raised ground floor reception to the tower building, has a total floor area of 63,939 sq ft. Tenants Grant Thornton House
Over 90% of the income is secured by Network Rail Infrastructure Ltd and Grant Thornton Nominees Ltd. There are five other tenants. Future In 2012 Network Rail’s lease on the offices they occupy will come to an end and they will move to a new purpose built building in Milton Keynes, Quandrant:MK. In January 2012 the government announced that they were proceeding with plans for HS2, a new high speed rail connection heading north from London to Birmingham, Manchester and Leeds. They have confirmed that Euston will be the location for the London termination of HS2. This will lead to passengers arriving at Euston increasing by a projected 10,000 per hour. Sydney & London have been lobbying for Euston to be the London terminus for HS2, presumably believing that this will increase the value of their property. They commissioned a new plan for the station and the surrounding area from the design consultacy Atkins. This masterplan envisaged a new station complex, and a huge increase in the office space on the development, from the existing 305,000 sq ft to 1,460,000 sq ft. This would be part of a mixed use development also containing 600,000 sq ft Retail, 1,220,000 sq ft Residential, and 625,000 sq ft Ancillary Facilities.
Network Rail’s new headquarters in Milton Keynes, due ofr completion 2012
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path 1 In making the transition to the new development the existing offices will be demolished. What happens to these spaces, and the community of people who work there
Forsyth Business Services occupies these vacant spaces, and quickly turns them into a work ‘hub’, giving access to office functions on a short term basis to people passing through Euston.
Existing station - 18 platforms Office complex - 305,000 sq ft.
When their leases expire the corporations move out of their office space and into a temporary building built to accomodate them until the new Euston complex is constructed.
Hi Speed 2 arrives in 2026, Euston requires 11 new platforms.
Companies return to new office building once it is complete. Sydney & London’s proposed new Euston development includes 29 platforms, 1,460,000 sq ft of office space, 600,000 sq ft Retail, 1,220,000 sq ft Residential, and 625,000 sq ft Ancillary Facilities.
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Once its temporary occupants have moved to their new office, what happens to this building? - a building with a second life with different programme? - a HUB office? - building that can be dismantled and moved to another location
Alt path PHASING STRATEGIES The proposed development of Euston station and the office acccomodation in front of it brings the communities who work there into an interesting position - a forced change, a time for rethinking and reassessing the concept of fixed spaces and office typologies.
Large new HUB office building as part of a new station development, the existing office buildings remain. Do the existing buildings connect with the new one?
BRIef - Proposal The brief takes the opportunity offered by this transitional time. As the fabric of Euston station is altered and expanded to accomodate the new rail service, and Sydney & London gigantic new vision, the old buildings will be decommissioned. Slowly the existing tenants will be moved out, and the buildings emptied, ready to be demolished. During this time a new kind of work place can be proposed, different from the rigid square foot allocation of the existing floor slabs. Forsyth Business Centres are an existing tenant of the Euston office buildings. They offer business services and spaces to accomodate any business need on a short term basis. Meeting rooms, communication facilities, work spaces. As the leases for the different companies in Euston expire Forsyth will take over their space, and expand what they can offer - a centre for people arriving in Euston who need office services, and to cater for the new capacity of people engaged in knowledge based work to be based outside of a formal office, using mobile and wireless technologies in a variety of places.
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In order to attract people to the site to use the services that Forsyth offer, they plan to offer as many different capacities as they can, making the experience as fruitful and positive for their customers as can be. It is in their interest to attract as many people as possible to the site, and to improve the general amenity, turning Euston into a place people want to be. Specific facilities to be offered include: - meeting rooms - video conferencing suites - hot desk zones - a creche, - a small hotel - sports facilities, - libraries for reference and quiet work - theatre - market place for setting up a stall
New lift, with connections to building that offer the change for informal meeting between floors
There are extreme constraints on the alterations and additions that are made, as the lifespan of the building is so short. Every intervention needs to be made quickly, as soon as the opportunity arises, and the fabric needs to be easy to dismount when necessary.
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euston common office a proposed typology of shared office space aka co-office, comoffice, euston worker’s commons
complex time balancing
Work is just one part of a complex of different activities which take place over a typical day. How might it be possible for an architectural strategy to have postitive impacts across as many of these different activities as possible? SOURCE - How Europeans spend their time: Everyday life of women and men, 2004
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Domestic work is segregated by gender, with the majority being done by women, who do in total about twice as much domestic work as men.
There is a significant difference between the amount of time men and women spend at home.
How to give women greater free time?
Of the domestic work in a household women do two thirds of the cooking, 80% of the cleaning and laundry, over twice as much childcare and about twice the amount of shopping. Men do slightly over half of the gardening task, and cleaning the exterior spaces. They do almost all of the construction and repair work.
Sketch showing how connections between programmatic stripes might be harnessed to give qualities to the transition between activities, easing the borders between work and home life perhaps.
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Co-office The Coop Office is a speculativly built office space, but designed for a group of separate companies who want to occupy a range of private and shared spaces. The question is what functions and parts of their space, could they share, in order to create economies that would allow for more generous spatial experiences for workers. So there would be a spectrum of spaces from fully private, just for the use of a particular company, to spaces that one or two companies share, to a completely shared facilities, like a library space.
With larger groups of people there would also be the need and possibility for stripy qualities – crèches, shared care facilities, restaurants, physical exercise.
This proposal could be based around the group of companies who are going to be homeless if they go ahead with plans to demolish
This proposal shows an office constructed at the back of a garden for 4 households to share. What about flats? Houses without gardens? Develop ‘thick’ window for these circumstances.
PROGRAMS MIXED – private office space, shared office space, public workspace,
This makes lots of sense in the use of services too – printing machines, high quality telecommunications suite, could be shared. And large meeting/entertainment spaces.
Components, etc. required would be flexible partitioning, to accommodate adjustments in how organization were realised in the plan.
Sticky Office at Home This proposal is to find a way to attach a workspace onto people’s houses, to accomodate people who more and more need to do work from their homes.
the buildings at Euston. Possible site is the unused nurses accomodation close to Euston
Stripy City Zone The layout across of the city of this arrangement of stripes, different domains which contain the particular functions (individual working, meeting others, relaxation, eating), that make up a day. These stripes connected by dynamic connection elements, so the worker has to move between different domains. Work happens not in one zone, but in the movement across them all, in a complex matrix of place and changes It could be an argument for work happening at an urban scale, and that place and movement complement each other. You take the train where you ponder the day ahead. Walk the pavement looking at the shops displaying magazines and newspapers, which inform you of news affecting your work. There is a choice of cafes where for the price of a cappuccino you can occupy a table and hold a meeting. The cinema, gym, park, restaurants - all these amenities allow functions that contribute to work to be distributed, and of course while walking between them you do a lot of digesting and thinking.
Programs mixed - Domestic activities, Work
This is sited on top of a new railway station at Euston. There are suggestions that the new tracks would be two floors beneath ground level, allowing a new large cityscape to be created on top. Lightweight, mixed, connected to all the existing city around it, and with connections to the transport hub below. But it would be arguing for something like the density and feel of Soho as being most effective, rather than taller towers, or the more diffuse, less rich and varied, urban condition that many people experience where they live/work.
Local library sticky workHub Councils are closing local libraries because they argue that they are being used less and less. The resources that they offer to the local community are developing in two ways – 1. They have larger childrens sections housing books, but also toys, and hosting different activities. 2. They host computers which can be accessed by the public. A sticky office could be attached onto the existing buildings to expand this developing part of their role.
privacy. Programs mixed – local to home, public workspace, childcare, community facilities, library
There are libraries that are earmarked for closure. A sticky office addition would update them, rearranging the interior space so that it becomes an environment for working. Queen’s Park Library on the Harrow Road serves a wide group of people, and is used very actively for all sorts of purposes. It is a Victorian building. The sticky office would replace one of the old brick walls. These would be supported by steel supports, and a new, ‘thick’ timber wall constructed, that contains staircases, small work pods, group rooms, all with different degrees of
a plan for woven programs If the borders between work and home have been challenged by digital communication technology, and the values of employers are often under pressure from responsibilities at work, these proposals examine how domains of different activity can be woven together, and through existing spaces with defined activities, increasing the opportunities for complex life arrangements to achieve balance.
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Diagram taken from Adrian Leaman, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;The Logistical Cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;, in Reinventing the Workplace, Ed. John Worthington, 2006, showing the relationship of different kinds of office work to the level of interaction involved, and the duration of time that the task might take.
strategies for sharing
Lloyds Building
Models of sharing office space
The Hub, London
Openspace, Manchester - cooperative, self-built office spaces
questions of building form and structure how can form and structure best enable complex organisational conditions to coexist?
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The building in its site with new Euston Station
A series of baskets The proposal sought to use a basket structure to create an interior space that could be open plan, but with an articulated vertical strcture, in order to created differentiation in the open plan, a spectrum of spaces, rather than a uniform grid. Total floor area - 5,000m2
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baskets as containers The basket forms could be containers for functional and servicing elements, and circulation
The accommodation for the Rolex learning centre designed by SANAA is all on one articulated floor, rising and falling, to make a landscape
The Guggenheim Museum in New York has an long walkway of gallery space arranged in a spiral.
The circulation of the Bavinger House designed by Bruce Goff is a sprial rising up through the buildings, with the ‘rooms’ suspended ‘pods’. The Free University in Berlin is a mat of different enclosures set into a ground of circulation, over two floors
One of the first studies of the Bürolandschaft model by GEG-Versand in Kamen, Germany, 1963-4 - a potentially endless open floor of work clusters
Norman Foster’s City Hall in London has a sprial walkway around the main public chamber of the building
The spiral plan of the building allows an endless floor to be placed within a limited site.
neverending plan The complex of endless connections and unlimited configurations that you can achieve in an open plan office gives many qualities that can be useful to office work. However in a large floor area
The CultureHuset in Stockholm has a large spiral ramp rising through the building. Here you can see an office with direct access from the ramp.
An endless floor twisted into a spiral gives the possibility of joining points through vertical connections which would not otherwise be adjacent
EXPERIMENT 1 Frame composition: no of arches - 6 spacing Tension cord: connection to frame - at node Amount of tension -
EXPERIMENT 2 Frame composition: no of arches - 11 spacing Tension cord: connection to frame - at node Amount of tension -
garden frame structure experiments A bent panel that can fit into the moving frame and open and close as the frame moves.
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Architonic.com; Material Research; 2005
HONEYCOMB STRUCTURES Innovations in aircraft design, motor vehicle technology and light-weight construction have formed the basis for the development of honeycomb structured panels. Their decisive advantage is low weight, combined with great structural strength. Because of their anti-shock properties, honeycomb structures are today used as shock-absorbent layers both in automobile construction and in sportsgear and sport shoe production. They are ideally suited for design and architectural applications as a result of their optimal ratio of weight to load-bearing capacity and bending strength. In addition this composite material, which generally consists of a honeycomb core and external facing, can be adapted to individual requirements with regard to instrength and choice of both sides of Euston station, and much of the interior, are clad currugated steel sheetsmaterials. And not least, the aesthetic properties of these materials are being increasingly valued. From transparent to translucent, catching the eye and directing the gaze, this versatile material can be tailor-made for a variety of design purposes.
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Glasshoneycomb Flooring System Here structure of aluminium was The material consists of two 4-mm glass plates with an inlaid aluminium used between two 4mm thick glass sheetsreinforced to create a lightweight but strong floor honeycomb. The honeycomb is structurally effective and ensures that the fire-resistant
material is not only lighter but has both greater durability and load-bearing strength than conventional glass. Standard tile size: 600 x 600 mm. Surfaces can be either sandblasted or made non-slip using clear anti-slip strips or plastic bubbles.
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Areas with no (or transparent) floor covering allow light to pass
thevs. floor to the level below. (It may even be possible to PC2 polycarbonate honeycomb exhibits a unique cell structure. The core has 3 through orientations the slab 2 use opaque corrugated sheets in these areas to allow near complete orientations common with other honeycomb, making its properties more uniform. Each cell has a tubular form light penetration) and is inherently stable.
Plascore Polycarbonate Honeycomb
Profile of floor can be tailored to architectural requirements, without any loss to structural integrity of floor slab
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PC2 polycarbonate honeycomb uses include wind tunnels – grilles, sandwich cores, radomes – antennae, Transparent Honeycomb Panels skylights, energy absorbing structures and EMI/RFI shielding. Depth of floor can be varied as deptermined by structural Highly transparent plastic honeycomb panels with a transparent core and transparent requirements. thermoplastic cover. The panels are easy to work, low in weight and have flammability class B1 ( DIN 4102 ). They are suitable for partition walls or display systems as possible Availability: applications. UV resistant versionFeatures: for outdoor use is available. • Excellent dielectric properties • Good thermal and electric insulator
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PC2 polycarbonate honeycomb is available in the following standard dimensions. Cell Sizes:
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A proposed solution to construction the floor of the building that spirals upwards, with a • Sandwich skins can be melted constant changes of height, is to use a honeycomb construction to create a slab. This could be to core strong, depending on its depth, and lightweight in comparison to say a concrete slab.
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Elements hung from the soffit of the slab delineate the floor below, and hold servicing and other functions.
slab given extra depth with timber pieces The slab can be given extra depth and loadbearing capacity by incorporating timber verticals within it.
The slab can respond to changes of level, and increases to the loadbearing requirements, as required
Cables in tension hold the timber pieces in position
Corrugated steel sheet, cut into diamond shaped pieces
Support frame, made up of Corner supports, which support the points of the corrugated steel pieces, and
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Attached to these beams and corner supports are steal members making up the depth of the slab.
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ROOFING STRUCTURE The proposed roofing structure aims to provide a light weight roof slab able to span the areas that require roofing, with a maximum distance of 10m. The slab can be constructed from commonly available material.
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