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East Chesterton Youth and Community Centre
1st January 2006
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Large Modern Country House
A highly complex curved structure
East Chesterton Youth and Community Centre in Cambridge is a highly complex curved structure all built in ICF.
Full of linear and curved geometries, this structure highlights the
flexibility of Polarwall construction. The challenge set to the main
contractor was to find a building method capable of delivering the unusual shapes and to achieve a robustness of structure necessary in a youth centre.
It is practical to build the Polarwall formwork in a curved form by constructing the rails vertically. This allowed the contractor to follow the different radial dimensions set by the architect.
Coulson’s Contracts Manager explained, "we were faced with a project that needed to be robust but also flexible to achieve the design. Lightweight frame construction was our initial thought but we were concerned about it not being able to stand up to the rigors of every day life being a youth centre. Noise was also an issue" "Constructing such a building in block would have been difficult, too slow and expensive."
