Linz Café: Wooden building, post and beam construction – Photographs of drawings

01/01/1980

Sketches

Four sketches of the building structural grid, including both floors, which highlight the relashionship of the structural grid to the spaces of the café. The structural system was based on a perfect “aperiodic” grid with a spacing, which is fitted organically to the nature of the spaces in the building.

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Construction Innovation 1 Items

Linz Café: "Aperiodic" grid of the timber post and beam structural frame 1980

Construction System, Timber Framework

Post and beam structural system which fits the structure of the spaces initially conceived, and is based on a structural grid with differentiated spacing of the grid lines in both directions, long and short, keeping the variations regular. The use ...

References

Scientific Research 1 Items

Emergence of Geometric Order in Building Structure

Focusing primarily on the pure beauty of the geometric order, which comes, above all, from the building structure (columns, walls, beams, vaults and so forth), specifically from the aperiodic grids which form the abstract underpinning of the building structure.

Projects 1 Items

Linz Café 1980

Linz , Austria

Commercial, Realized , Construction completed in Jul-1980

Built as part of the international exposition "Forum Design" and designed to be "portable". Wooden building overlooking the Danube, with the first floor of the building raised to clear the ten-foot-high river embarkment. Yellow and red exterior, three stories, 2,300 ...

Photographs 1 Items

Linz Café: Wooden building, post and beam construction - Photographs 01/01/1980

Construction Innovation, Interior View

View of the post and beam structural system used, clearly visible in the interior; based on a perfect grid, with a spacing that is fitted organically to the nature of the spaces in the building. The photo was exhibited during the ...