Steel frame construction

Example of a steel frame building:
the north front of the Augsburg Glass Palace

Roofing in steel frame construction: Duisburg Hbf (Bj. 1931–34)

Solar house with filigree, hot-dip galvanized steel frame

The steel frame construction is a building construction developed around 1884 in which the supporting structure of a structure is erected in a frame construction with steel girders . Ceilings and walls are then inserted into the supporting steel structure, which also gives the entire structure a high load-bearing capacity. B. is required for warehouse and factory buildings. Thanks to this stable construction, many older steel frame buildings survived the air raids of the Second World War with comparatively little damage.

The steel skeleton structure defined in the rule in that the main supporting structure , d. H. Supports and beams are made of steel profiles that are connected by means of rivets , screws or welding . Therefore, faster construction progress is possible and due to the lack of load-bearing partition walls, the interior layout is very flexible. The ceilings can be designed as precast concrete , semi- precast or composite ceilings (wood, etc.).

history

The first steel frame building was the Ditherington Flax Mill by Charles Bage , which was built in 1796-97.

The construction method became very popular especially in the USA due to the first high-rise buildings . Early examples of steel frame construction in Germany were the Berlin department store am Weinberg (1904), the Weinhaus Rheingold (1907) and the Vox-Haus (1908), followed by the Augsburger Glaspalast (1910), Weinhaus Huth and Haus Vaterland (Berlin, both 1912) , Lübeck Handelshof (1924), Anzeiger-Hochhaus (Hanover, 1928), Karl-Bröger-Haus (Nuremberg, 1930), Grenzwacht house (Aachen, 1930), IG-Farben-Haus (Frankfurt am Main, 1931), Shell- House and Columbushaus (Berlin, both 1932), the churches Heilig-Kreuz (1929, Martin Weber ) and St.-Josef (new part from 1931, Hans and Christoph Rummel ) in Frankfurt-Bornheim , the Zeche Zollverein in Essen (1932, Fritz Schupp and Martin Kremmer ) and building 7 of the former Munich Reichszeugmeisterei in the old McGraw barracks, built between 1935 and 1937 by Paul Hofer and Karl Johann Fischer .

Web links

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Individual evidence

1. ↑ Stock 115 Zollverein mine, Essen-Katernberg. on: archive.nrw.de