Photograph

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

01/01/1991

Drawing

Perspective of the lattice work of the trusses covering the main exhibition hall.

Photographer:

Christopher Alexander/C.E.S., Martinez, CA, U.S.A.

Source:

Digital

Characteristics:

B&W

Content of

Construction Innovation

Mary Rose Museum: Arched trusses to span the 30-meter wide dry-dock where the ship was to be permanently housed 1991

Construction System, Reinforced Concrete

Created by:

Christopher Alexander, Gary Black, Miyoko Tsutsui

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 ...

References

Scientific Research

Projects

Mary Rose Museum 1991 to 1993

Portsmouth, Hampshire, U.K.

Civic, Designed , Not built

Client:

The Mary Rose Trust - Mr. John Vimpany & Dr. Brian Hanson

C.E.S. staff:

Christopher Alexander, Gary Black, Miyoko Tsutsui, Annie der Bedrossian

Project cost:

Expected construction cost: $15,000,000

Design and construction process:

The following are the major sequential steps of the design process: 1) Defining a word-picture of generic centers 2) Structure preserving emergence of the building volume from the urban landscape 3) The rough sketch design 4) Obtaining the structural design 5) Money distribution 6) Distribution of the main mass concrete of the building 7) Working through the finer materials, concrete, brick and stone with special regard for light and color

Project stages:

Design Development stage in progress Construction management rules and process Innovative construction methods

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 ...