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IKEA Southampton, the
first UK IKEA built in a city centre and the Swedish furniture giant’s
254th store worldwide with 32,000 square metres of retail space and 20,000 customers a day. IKEA has found the Southampton IKEA to be an
important testing ground logistically due to the location in the center
of an urban area illustrated in the commercial photography. A 90 foot high tensile structure has been installed to shelter IKEA
customers as they enter and exit the store from the adjacent
multi-storey car park.Measuring 14m wide by 72m long, with a surface area of 1120m2, the
tensile fabric structure protects the high level entrance to the store
from the multi-storey car park illustrated in the commercial photography and architectural photography. A 45m long and 19m wide void between
the car park and main building houses a series of travellators, taking
shoppers from the checkouts at ground level up to each level of the car
park. Drainage of rainwater was a key design element. The offset wave
profile, with the front profile 90 degrees out of phase with the back,
allowed far more efficient control of rainwater run-off to the internal
guttering system. The perimeter and cross-bracing structural framework
was constructed from steel sections that could be utilised as both a
guttering and tensioning system for the fabric membrane shown in the commercial photography above.
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