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- Sunderland, United Kingdom
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Danieli Group
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Dunwoodie Architects
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- Sunderland, United Kingdom
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- Danieli Group
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- Dunwoodie Architects
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Following the popularity of STACK Newcastle, leisure operator Danieli Holdings set out to create a similar vibrant, flexible, and relaxed venue in Seaburn. They appointed us to provide structural engineering solutions for this project, which reuses around 50 shipping containers as the key building material.
While shipping containers are built to be strong and secure, they still required some modifications for their new purpose. Our structural engineers optimised the quantity of structural elements within the superstructure and substructure by utilising the strength and stiffness of the containers to support vertical and horizontal loads.
Due to the site being next to the North Sea, our main challenge was dealing with wind loads. To overcome these, we relied on the existing container support posts and inherent rigour of the side panels to transfer load in compression and tensions to the foundations. And anchoring the containers to the foundations helps them resist any uplift from wind loads. Where the sides of containers needed to be altered, we retrofitted moment-resisting frames to provide the adequate racking resistance against horizontal pressure.
Despite opening during the pandemic, STACK Seaburn created over 200 jobs and helped boost the local economy, garnering more than 700,000 visitors in the first year.
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- Location
- Sunderland, United Kingdom
- Offices
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Client
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Danieli Group
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Architect
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Dunwoodie Architects
- Location
- Sunderland, United Kingdom
- Offices
- Client
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- Danieli Group
- Architect
- Dunwoodie Architects