THE CHIP STORE DELIVERY HATCH
The hatch over the chip store for chip delivery is one of the most functionally crucial components of the project. It has been designed for optimum functionality. The primary issue faced for its design and making was to keep the height of hatch as low as possible to comply with our design ambition of visual connectiv-
ity. The size of the hatch opening is 3m X 2.5m, which meant that the spanning cover would have some significant depth. With the engineers, the roof structure is designed to be minimum depth possible. Another issue with chip delivery is that the back wall had to be less than 450mm for the delivery truck back not to hit the
wall. Our back wall was higher than that. To resolve this, we attached the excess height of the wall, i.e 3 log courses to the bottom of the hatch, that can be slid open with the hatch.