Thin Slabs: Unreasonably Thin Roofs and Floors

A futuristic minimalist single-story exhibition hall, with a continuous white roof slab extending outwards from beyond the glass walls to form a deep overhang. The edge of the slab appears to be only about ten centimeters thick, like a sheet of paper against the sky. Beneath the roof are frameless floor-to-ceiling glass panels, and the columns are extremely slender white steel columns, recessed behind the glass and almost invisible. Avoid: making the edge of the roof slab thick and heavy, exposing beams and structural grids beneath the overhang, using thick columns arranged on the outside, adding gutters and downspouts to the roof edge.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

一座未來感極簡的單層展示館,整片白色屋頂板從玻璃牆外延伸出去形成深出簷,板的邊緣厚度看起來只有十幾公分,在天空下像一張紙。屋頂下方是無框的落地玻璃,柱子是極細的白色鋼柱,退到玻璃後面幾乎看不見。避免:把屋頂板的邊緣做得厚重、在出簷下方露出樑與結構格子、使用粗大的柱子排在外側、在屋頂邊緣加上排水溝與落水管。