Commercial
Bevis Marks (London)
Rooftop ETFE-clad walkway and pod structure at a City of London office building.
City of London, United Kingdom
- Sector
- Commercial — office amenity
- System
- ETFE cladding to a rooftop walkway and pod
- Why ETFE
- Enclosure weight low enough for an existing roof structure
The challenge
Adding usable amenity space to an existing City roof means working with whatever spare load capacity the building has left — usually very little — while creating something tenants actually want to use.
The ETFE solution
An ETFE-clad walkway and pod structure sits on the roof. As cladding rather than a roof, ETFE gives a weather-tight, translucent enclosure at a tiny fraction of the weight of a glazed equivalent, so the existing frame could take it.
The result
A sheltered, light-filled rooftop route and space, added to a working building without strengthening works on the scale glass would have required.
