LOCATION | Vatican City |
TASK | Concept and Schematic Structural Design, Development design, Working Drawings |
ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN | King & Roselli Architetti |
AREA / VOLUME | 8.000 m3 |
CLIENT | Lateran Pontificial University, Vatican City |
STRUCTURAL DESIGN TEAM | Andrea Imbrenda, Pierfrancesco Imbrenda, Antonio Sivilia, Raffaele Cervellera, Rosa Mangano, Antonio Bindi |
The building has an almost square plan with sides of 19m and a height of about 25m. It is divided into two parts: the first are the book stacks on a regular structure in reinforced concrete with 23 cm thick solid slabs and pillars; the second is the reading room that consists of sloping slabs supported on deep edge beams and 4 concrete filled steel columns.