Wave roof and glass facade provides an open interaction space for a library building.

Nasik Engineering College

A library building with glass façade looking East – For the Rising Sun…
The spacial architectural space represents openness, an unending curiosity, a place for open, free and unhindered interaction and debate. Further the library of an Engineering College should represent the spirit of engineering, display immaculate structural design and motivate engineering students to create unprecedented feats of Engineering and excel.

The Structure

The 65M. X 35M Wave Roof is resolved by a unique combination of 4-trusses and 6-wave girders supported with G.I. V-columns. Each girder is a composite box section made out of steel plates with tensile cables and varying depths as per the wind load and stresses. The unique combination of steel components: such as Wave Girders, Optimized trusses, V-columns resonating the rhythm and metal sheet cladding has resulted in a mass-less effect.