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project
project
project
architect
PLUS office architects bvba
period
2008 - 2012
project
extension of the Municipal Academy of Music, Speech and Visual Arts, Lokeren
budget
€ 1.800.000,00
surface area
1.567 m2
client
gemeente Lokeren
status
finished

For the primary structural system of this project, a steel exoskeleton was selected. The tubular steel columns were welded in the workshop in a Y-shape and subsequently connected on site in an alternating pattern by means of a horizontal tube at cornice level. This steel frame supports, through thermally broken connection elements, the steel profiles on which the roof’s wide slab elements partially rest, with acoustic separation. The slab above the ground floor is supported independently by load-bearing concrete walls and columns and has no connection to the exoskeleton.