david.humphrey
Curves!
Serpentine Sackler Gallery. Zaha Hadid architects 2009-2013. Archtiects’ Description: The tailored, glass-fi bre woven textile membrane is an integral part of the building’s loadbearing structure. It stretches between and connects a perimeter ring beam and a set of fi ve interior columns that articulate the roof’s highpoints. Instead of using perimeter columns, the edge beam – a twisted ladder truss supported on three points – dips down to the supporting ground in front, in the back, and on the free west side. On the east side this edge beam (and thus the roof of the extension) swings above the parapet of the Magazine. (The “Magazine” is the brick building adjoining, dating from 1805).
Curves!
Serpentine Sackler Gallery. Zaha Hadid architects 2009-2013. Archtiects’ Description: The tailored, glass-fi bre woven textile membrane is an integral part of the building’s loadbearing structure. It stretches between and connects a perimeter ring beam and a set of fi ve interior columns that articulate the roof’s highpoints. Instead of using perimeter columns, the edge beam – a twisted ladder truss supported on three points – dips down to the supporting ground in front, in the back, and on the free west side. On the east side this edge beam (and thus the roof of the extension) swings above the parapet of the Magazine. (The “Magazine” is the brick building adjoining, dating from 1805).