Factory Hall, Scheifling

US
Pittsburgh

Architects:
Bohlin Cywinski Jackson Wilkes-Barre/ Pittsburgh/ Philadelphia/ Seattle

The innovative factory hall is set on a peripheral estate in an Austrian village. Internally, the hall shows the application of the familiar curved girder system. Here it has matured into an even more progressive and efficient roof construction using folded web beams and even flatter arched girder elements consisting of trapezoidal double leaf, heat insulated steel sheets. This makes for a lightweight and economical support system with comparatively larger free spans for appreciable cost savings when compared to alternative support systems, including trusses. Externally, roofing and cladding consist of smooth, double leaf heat insulated trapezoidal precoated steel sheets.