Fashioning an aural architecture

Fashioning an Aural Architecture
To build the 76-foot-diameter dome over the main theater at the Tempe Center for the Arts, construction workers installed a structure of glue-laminated beams connected by steel saddles and supported with shoring.
Photo © Bernon Monger

Fashioning an Aural Architecture
To build the 76-foot-diameter dome over the main theater at the Tempe Center for the Arts, construction workers installed a structure of glue-laminated beams connected by steel saddles and supported with shoring.
Photo © Peter Rutti

Fashioning an Aural Architecture
Though the configuration of the wood members resembles a lamella pattern in the finished ceiling, their purpose was to provide temporary support for the fiberglass formwork.
Photo © Peter Rutti

Fashioning an Aural Architecture
To ensure that the concrete flowed evenly around the dome’s dense network of steel reinforcement, contractors used a self-consolidating mix.
Photo © Peter Rutti

Fashioning an Aural Architecture
Crews formed the shell and ribs with 125 cubic yards of concrete in a single 8-hour pour.
Photo © Thomas Brown




