THE SILO BUILDING: A NEW URBAN AND COMPACT INDUSTRIAL BUILDING TYPE In The Silo, the industrial “plots” are piled up, and a structure of Vierendeel beams spanning 32 m allows for a flexible column-free interior. This structure can contain all the necessary piping and infrastructure, that is accessible from for repair and maintenance. Mezzanines are possible due to the 8m free height between floor and ceiling. Small and medium sized trucks can be lifted to the upper “plots” for direct loading and unloading.
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The south façade can be a solar energy generator, and the roof can be used for intensive all-year-round urban farming using hydroponics. The more compact nature of this industrial building typology frees up ground that can be used as rain gardens, waste water filtering basins or other productive strategies to renaturalize the area with productive landscapes.
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