PROJECTS
BAGNORE 3 Geothermal Power Plant, Santa Fiora (Grosseto - Toscana)
Project's Categories
INDUSTRIAL BUILDINGS, SPECIAL STRUCTURES
Client
ENEL - Italian National Electrical Energy Company
Architect
Stefano Boeri - Luca Bucci
Builder
Dalla Verde S.p.A. (VC)
Contruction year
1999
Services provided
Complete design, from preliminary to detailed.
The original design of a new geothermal power plant in a wilderness area was modified to face architectural and landscaping espects. The new design includes a special "roofing" of the main machinery building, consisting of a steel structure featuring 17 "purlins", 64 m long, shaped to fit to the natural slope of the hillside.
No cladding is added, so that the "roofing" is composed by the structural elements only: the section shape of the "purlins" was studied in order to fulfill special architectural and aesthetic requirements.
Design included seismic response analysis and non-linear analysis of the very slender steel "purlins". Because of the heavy corrosive environment, special self-passivating (CORTEN type) steel was used.
