Case Study: Harare International Airport, Zimbabwe
Octagonal Visual Control Room with conventional style construction and eight roof support columns. A geodesic frame roof sculpture tops the VCR as an architectural feature in keeping with the airports historical theme.
Features include:
- Floor Area 85m² (Internal)
- Glazing 16.8mm thick annealed laminated glass with 6mm Parsol green, supported in thermally broken aluminium glazing frames
- Floor Circular steel framed podium floor with anti static carpet and perimeter walkway access.
- Ceiling Acoustic ceiling tile system tapered from cab centre up to glazing head
- Roof Access via retractable ceiling ladder to roof void and marine style hatch to roof deck. Insulated GRP roof panels with eight galvanised steel handrail / antennae mounts
- Access Via conventional staircase from tower below and also through dwarf wall hatch to external perimeter walkway
- Sun Shades Six perimeter Solar control film binds electrically operated with remote control plus sixteen inset Lyverscreen electrically operated remote control blinds
- Sculpture Seven metre high GRP geodesic framed sculpture
