vancouver millennium line:
rupert station


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Rupert Station

VIA Architecture
(formerly Baker McGarva Hart)

Vancouver Millennium Line
Vancouver, British Columbia

Project Information:

Renfrew and Rupert Stations in Burnaby, B.C, are "sister" stations that make use of similar structural vocabulary. Steel HSS round columns with steel plate fins support the glue laminated wood beams that cantilever over the platform area. Tie down support or bracing is provided by wood outriggers with steel connectors that assist in defining the exterior architectural language of the station.

Architect: VIA Architecture (formerly Baker McGarva Hart Architecture)
Contractor: PCL Constructors (Canada)
Steel Fabrication and Detailing: Solid Rock Steel, Vancouver, B.C.
Steel Erection: Solid Rock Steel, Vancouver, B.C.

Project Images: Construction (images courtesy George Third & Son)

The glue laminated beams are supported by round HSS columns.
The white steel structure will support the elevator.

Steel delivered to the site awaiting erection.
The wood beams are braced across the centre of the station with steel fins that are integrated into the wood beams.

Steel connectors atop the wood beams accept the wood purlins that will support the steel roof deck.
Near completed end view of station.
Project Images: Completed Station
Exterior view along wood and steel outriggers.
View along platform edge.
Closeup of connection detail at base of outrigger and connection to X bracing.
Exterior view of completed station.

 

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Updated May 29, 2006 x

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