HIGHWAY SUPPORT CENTER SALT STORAGE

UNDERSTANDING AND RECREATING STRUCTURAL SYSTEMS

Partner: Andrew Wong

The Model Project was a partner project in which the students pick a building that has a certain unique structural quality, and reconstruct a scaled model showing the overal structural systems as well as details of its many structural elements. The salt storage unit of a highway support center in Norway by 24H Architects was the structure of choice for me and my partner. The structure has three main systems: concrete walls, diagonal wood columns, and a diagrided roof canopy. Each system has a very different structural quality in itself, but every one of these systems is essential to make this structure stand.

Model Images