The Mary Rose Museum: Arched trusses to span the 30-meter wide dry-dock where the ship was to be permanently housed – Photographs of drawings

Arched trusses, conceived and design early in the design process along with the foundation design. Deep pile foundationa on either side of the dry dock were designed to carry the arched trussesThe main arches were to be pierced tracery made ...

Large building are not easy to design and keep the feeling of intimay in them. The way a large building can be given this quality is by succeeding in the creation of living centers throughout its fabric. The profusion and ...

One of the main topics of research, included in every building project, was to identify, early on in the design process, the material and techniques of construction. This would re-establish building as an art, and allow rapid shaping and adaptation, ...

Museum for Henry VIII's ship, sank in 1547, raised in 1982, and then preserved in a dry dock next to HMS Victory. The museum, with an area of construction of about 8,000 square meters, was to be built over dry ...