Extension Pecci Museum for Contemporary Art

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Location

Prato, Italy

Size

3.000 m2

Client

Mrs. Pecci, Gemeente Prato

Year

2012

The new extension for the Pecci Museum for Contemporary Art in Prato, Italy has been designed by Architect Maurice Nio. Extra volume has been created and through a new orientation of the main entrance, the entrance has become better visible and the exposition area has been enlarged. Zonneveld ingenieurs b.v. made the earthquake resistant structural design for the extension.  
To make the building as light as possible, the design incorporates a steel structure with composite slab floors at level 1. The roof consists of steel girders with wooden purlins and wood plating. This reduces the mass of the building and therefore reduces the responce forces during an earthquake.
Another feature of the earthquake resistant structural design are the "eccentric bracings", that absorb the energy created by an earthquake.
 

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