[architecture article]architectural review_sept03bingthom

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columns, which are tapered at each end to express bending stresses and reduce their visual impact (a very large lathe had to be specially built to make them). Extensive use of timber has two purposes: both to make the big space more touchable and approachable, and to celebrate the ethos of a technological university that should have a The other big public space opens to the left of the atrium. Toplit,the galleria is fundamentally part of the mall with its roof taken off and built up with layers of university to form a much more noble space than the drearily functional and rather dark volume there
before. One of the problems of creating this part of the complex was that the shopping centre had to remain open throughout the building operations. To allow for that, and to provide enough support for the new upper floors, the new work is almost entirely carried on seven massive cruciform columns. Light pours down into the central street-like space from a roof made of glass, laminated timber compression members, and steel cable ties with ductile iron connections. From below, the whole thing looks a bit like a fish skeleton, a form not unknown in contemporary western Canadian architecture. Ideally,the whole tall volume will act together, with the lives of the students on their open galleries and those of the shoppers below reinforcing 8
Timber is used extensively in the interior to make the building approachable, and to remind of Canadian essentials.9
Rising from the entrance hall to the atrium, with the university on upper floors. Galleria beyond.10
Galleria at university level (11)
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