UTD APC Athenaeum

Steel Tonnage: 450
Location: Richardson, Texas
Category: Commercial
Software: SDS/2 2022i

The UTD APC Athenaeum Phase I includes the Crow Museum of Asian Art that features 16,000 sf of flexible gallery space. The building is designed with a second floor larger than the ground floor creating covered exterior spaces. This project detailed in SDS/2 can be called the ‘TRUSS project’. The biggest truss is 207 ft long & 24 ft high, weighing around 80 tons. Moreover the most unique components were the tube supports for swooping precast panels, dubbed the ‘pipe noodles’.