With two large buildings, a palace, an auditorium and a daycare center, Administrative City expresses the development of the technology applied to the work of architect Oscar Niemeyer.
On the ground almost 790 thousand square meters, are distributed extensive green areas, two lakes and the administrative complex of the state government of Minas Gerais.
With around 17 thousand square meters of built area, the government palace attracts attention and respect to be seen by fully suspended glass volume.
It refers to a glass box suspended 30 prestressed straps over the 150 meters in length, supported by the two frames of the facades, whose conceptualization reflects the release of land, raising a support structure with four external pillars, no structural connection with the suspended floors.
In the course of construction, the metal structures of the rods acted as temporary abutments between the ground and first floor, with the cast off of the support order and nod the advancement of the work.
The pillars were removed following the execution, The remaining five floors suspended by tie rods in the roof structure.
The Administrative City President Tancredo Neves, located in North Vector of the metropolitan region of Belo Horizonte, It is near the airport Pampulha, highway verge Mayor Américo Gianetti.
Márcio Estefano, Prof. PhD
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