Currigan Exhibition Hall - Denver – (U.S.A.)

Abstract

The exhibition hall designed, of a multifunctional type, includes a main hall covering 9,400 m² and a 14,900 m² basement, intended mainly for mechanical installations, facilities and car-parks. It also has an additional area of 4,700 m² distributed in a 'twen floor, organized the length of the inner construction perimeter which houses: offices, rest rooms, and the light and sound control cabins. Worth special mention is the solution adopted for the enormous structure of the roof —with spans close on 75 m—, which relegate the vertical supports to the perimeter, leaving the hall area obstacle-free, which enables it to be used as a whole or subdivided into parts to form up to 600 small exhibition stands. The space framework making up the roofing, executed in white painted metal sections, remains entirely visible, taking advantage of its geometrical movement with plastic and esthetic aims, so that the structural working needs combine with the architectural design.