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STRUCTURAL DETAILING 159▲ 7.56 Charles de Gaulle Airport: Terminal 2F, Paris, France,Aéroports de Paris, 1999. Light-weight ‘peninsula’ roof.▲ 7.57 Tension-spokes allow frames to wrap around thefloor slab.▲ 7.58 Learning Resource Centre, Thames Valley University, Slough, England, RichardRogers Partnership, 1996. The two exterior forms.In the progression towards examples of visually heavier detailing twobuildings are visited that incorporate instances of both light and heavydetailing. The Learning Resource Centre, Slough, consists of threeforms – a main rectilinear concrete-framed block housing bookcases,seminar rooms and offices; a light-weight curved roof enclosing a threestoreyvolume; and within it, a single-storey concrete structure whoseupper floor accommodates computing and study areas (Fig. 7.58).Detailing for lightness is most evident in the curved roof structure,although vertical posts at each end of the light-weight structure are