Structure: Alvar Aalto, Wolfsburg Cultural Center, Germany 1962
Except for Aalto's reused bar of offices in the floor plan, the entire ground floor is offset columns around the perimeter. The structure is holding up the reading room of the library and auditorium volumes so they look like they are flying on the street. On the interior columns we also see a technique that is reused, the variation of columns for different spaces. Some columns are doubles and other single, however this has nothing to do with the bearing on the columns but the design of the spaces.
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