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Office block, including reception with brewery buildings behind
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Reception bar in office block
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Staircase entrance hall
to office block
joining "Z's allows free passage for light and air. This folded plate roof makes very effective use of the mono- lithic properties of reinforced concrete. All the plates and their supporting main beams were cast in place.
The commission to develop the site as a brewery was given by Guinness to Steen Sehested and Partners, en- gineers, as a structural, mechanical and organisational problem. Booty. Edwards and Partners, architects, were then brought in as design con- sultants and co-ordinators.
The site was chosen for its first class road and rail communications, good drainage facilities and adequate. supply of water and electricity. Some 100,000 cu. yd. of sand had to be imported to raise the ground level a foot before construction could start. Mining slime estimated to be 20 to 30 ft. deep covered the site and at one end there was a 28 ft, deep, three- acre pond.
Basic Layout
The basic brewery layout was inevitably dictated in principle by the experience and process requirements of the clients. Natural light, con- trolled climate and expandability was
of utmost importance.
There are two main buildings. One houses the brewing and fermenting plant, grain stores, service machinery and offices. The other houses the bottling plant and stores. Both are served by the road-rail line. The buildings are supported on 700 piles
to an average depth of 80 ft.
The folded plate roof over the brewery, offices and bottling areas provides unimpeded floor space, light control and ease of continuation. The building also has a modular struc- ture for aesthetic resolution at the time of extending.
Far East Architect & Builder March, 1967