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The New Herbarium and Library is an extension to the existing Herbarium Buildingat Kew Gardens. Founded in 1853, the Herbarium is the world’s leading centre forthe study of plant diversity. The new building will provide long awaited additionalarchive space for Kew’s priceless collection of dried plant specimens, botanic booksand illustrations.The main structure consists of a reinforced concrete frame to provide thermal massand provide deflection control to the archive areas. The building was founded on a raftfoundation that was designed to resist the high archive loads of the building whilstcontrolling the heave and settlement to both adjacent buildings. The roof to the mainherbarium block consists of steel portal frame arches with a curved insitu roof slab.Disciplines involvedCivil Infrastructure • Façades • Ground Engineering • Structures
LONDON KEW HERBARIUMClient: Royal Botanical GardensArchitect: Edward Cullinan ArchitectsThe main challenges for the project were thehigh performance criteria for the archive spacesin terms of environmental stability (particularlyhumidity) and control of deflection for the highloads from the roller racking storage systems.© Tim Soar
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