Big-box buildings
The term of project realization is the crusial
criterion for the commercial construction. So, the best
solution will be big-box building.
The advantages of the big-box building construction are the following:
- short terms of mounting,
- technological designs,
- unrestricted design by sizes and shapes.
There are enough examples of successful application of the big-box technology in construction of commercial and entertainment centers, logistics and industrial complexes.
The main purposes of using the big-box technology are:
- practicality,
- manufacturability,
- desire to use standard components, solutions or standard combination with the maximum design space inside the building.
There are unlimited number of
architectural and aesthetic decisions those can avoid the
effect of "bleak boxes". They are all kinds of forms
of glass, metal, the useness of innovative designs, sometimes,
the useness of such non-functional forms as architectural ornament. Sometimes all
communications equipment, evacuation galleries are carried outside
the building place. In other ones all building is hidden by
extraordinary curvilinear forms using atypical for big-boxes
materials (for example, retail and enterntainment
centers "Kvadrat").
The most common big-box Ukrainian buildings are metallic-structures, reinforced concrete and steel reinforced concrete ones. These types of bildings distinguishes by an universality, an adaptation to many technologies and a possibility of modifications.