Federation Square

Building: Federation Square

Architect: Lab

Location: Finders Street

Completion date: 2002

i was in Melbourne the other day and had a bit of time to spend so i went and took some photos of Fed square, so i though i would post them...(this was not one of my planned site visits)

THE STRUCTURE

the deck of Fed square was built before the planning of the building was resolved so there was a bit of guess work...the crash walls, not shown in my photographs, are continuous walls that support points at random, with every second beam picking up a column load, which allows a certain amount of flexibility, the outer skin of the walls are precast concrete with an concrete in-situ infill slab...the facade wraps around the building and is purely decorative....materials used are zinc, Kimberly sandstone and glass.... just an interesting fact the (live) load are 500kg/square metre

this information is from a lecture by structural engineer Stuart Jones....that i was given notes on

IMAGES

in my images i tried to capture the complicated structure of Federation Square...as noted above the facade is not structural , the reverse of the facade can be seen in the bottom image and i have tried to show the in the middle image....

for more information there is a good article on Fed. square on the following web site...its worth a look....
http://www.architectureaustralia.com/aa/aaissue.php?article=7&issueid=200303&typeon=2