Project cost: £70,000
designers: Paul Archer Design
Photographs: Paul Smoothy
The project involved creating a glass conservatory at the rear of an existing Victorian town house. The Client wanted the minimum of structure so a system was devised whereby glass beams supporting the roof could be connected to the supporting glass walls. By using this method glass fins were avoided and the internal space was free of obstruction. The design of the connections involved significant research and testing.
At a meeting of the Institute of Structure’s award panel on 25th June 2004 it was agreed that an award be made to Fluid Structures for the above project. A special presentation was made on Wednesday 10th November 2004 and the award was accepted by David Crookes on behalf of Fluid Structures. For this structure the judges comments were; “Deceptively simple design” “A wonderful response to a demanding brief” “Demonstrating that exceptional engineering is immune to scale”