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Sculptural shape of rear wall facing adjoining property
designed to a very much lighter floor loading.
The original architectural design for heavy concrete fins was changed to one for light aluminium fins as the structur- al frame was a cantilever type. This overall reduction in loading along the perimeter of the floors resulted in lo- wering the cost by approximately 12 per cent.
It was anticipated that if the floor slabs could be so arranged to form a complete flat soffit ceiling, they would provide better rigidity of the structure and no compression steel would be needed in the cantilever plates, even with only a 17in. construction depth. A comparison of costs between false floor and false ceiling was made by the quantity surveyors and the former de- sign was eventually selected.
The structural design then pro- duced followed closely an original pro-
Section A-A
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AIR-CONDITION
PIPE
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WATER TANK
İLIFT MACHINERY RM.
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ROOM
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Far East BUILDER, October 1968.