New IKEA store – Catania (CT) – Italy

Preliminary, final and detailed design of structural works and works supervision

 

Client: IKEA Italia Property S.r.l.
Building volume: 220.000 m3
Building surface: 30.000 m2
Structural works value: 14.891.000,00 €
Total works value: 22.151.000,00 €
Construction period: 2010÷2011

 

The construction has regular plan similar to a rectangle of maximum size equal to about 180×120 m and a height of approximately 12 m.
The building is on three levels: ground floor and two floors above ground, and is divided into two parts by a structural joint.
The vertical structures are made up of r.c. precast columns and r.c. cast in place shear walls placed along the perimeter of the building.
The first floor, with a 16×8 m mesh, is made of precast r..c. prestressed elements consisting of inverted T or L-shaped beams and ribbed slabs.
The roof, with a 16×16 m mesh, is instead made up of precast prestressed r..c. inverted T and L-shaped main beams, I-shaped secondary beams, and from a lightweigt structural concrete slab cast on corrugated steel sheet.
The foundations are footings on 600 piles for columns and mats on 1000 piles for shear walls.
The building is completed by a large underground r.c. basin and from external and internal stairs in steel structure.
The external facades are made of aluminum sandwich panels supported by a secondary steel structure.