Storrs Center Structure - Storrs, CT

Architect Kent+Frost Landscape Architects

Project Cost Undisclosed

Address Storrs, CT

New structural steel outdoor at Storrs Marketplace highlighting the entry to the University of Connecticut

THE CHALLENGE

Client required structure to have “fin-like” qualities in the major support frame along with telescoping structural steel columns.

Storrs Center Structural Design

Custon "Fin-Like" Frame Members

Telescoping Structural Steel Columns

AESS

THE SOLUTION

The structural steel framing consisted of all custom shapes that had to be modeled for their physical properties and then inserted into a Finite Element Analysis (FEA) software for analysis.