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Cover Picture: Steel Construction 2/2010
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
steel construction
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.443
H-Index - 8
eISSN - 1867-0539
pISSN - 1867-0520
DOI - 10.1002/stco.201090013
Subject(s) - roof , cover (algebra) , archaeology , situated , diagonal , engineering , geography , geometry , computer science , mechanical engineering , mathematics , artificial intelligence
China’s first National Maritime Museum is one of the first buildings to be realized in Lingang New City, a town literally built on water. The rectilinear and symmetrical layout of the Maritime Museum is situated directly adjacent to the large central lake. The museum is organized around a raised plazas. Right in the centre of the museum two 58 m tall roof shells lean against each other, touching at one point only, approx. 40 m above ground. The triangular roof structure was designed as two layers of gridshells that are connected by a series of diagonals. Symbolically, two ships are setting sail in the harbour‐like configuration of the museum wings and the landscaped open spaces (see pp. 120—126).