The Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts is an art gallery and museum located on the campus of the University of East Anglia, Norwich in the United Kingdom. It is housed in one of the first major public buildings to be designed by Norman Foster.

Introduction

The building Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts The Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts building was opened in 1978. It was designed between 1974 and 1976 by the then relatively unknown architect Norman Foster (now Lord Foster). It is situated on the western edge of the University campus, beside the River Yare, and also houses the School of World Art Studies and Museology.

The main building is sited on sloping, turfed ground, and consists of a large cuboid, clad steel structure. One face is almost entirely glazed, with the prefabricated skeleton clearly visible. Internally, the museum gives the impression of being one vast open space, lacking any internal divisions to interfere with the interplay of natural and artificial light. Services, lighting, toilets and maintenance access are housed in triangular towers and trusses, and between the external cladding and internal aluminium louvres.

Structure and Materials The building is founded on a large audience, while the structure was solved with a system similar to that of the industrial building, consisting of an independent steel structure. The structure of the type of space and function is visible, and in large areas and exterior walls, more private and other sectors and some service wet the structure is hidden by concrete slabs. The exterior walls are curtain walls where they want to have a broad visual and also the remaining plates are coated with concrete, the interior has also aluminum coatings.

Introduction Building Construction phase

Present foundation and zoom details

Present truss structure and zoom

details

Show final outlook

• Refrence

The university of east anglia(uea) ,norwich

• Site http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sainsbury_Centre_for_Visual_Arts

http://www.fosterandpartners.com/Projects/0188

http://www.scva.org.uk