Stratford Market Depot
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View of fully glazed south facade
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New complex providing train maintenance and storage facilities alongside extensive office and ancillary buildings
A ‘supershed’ was the ideal solution for the main train shed – an industrial building of considered design, providing flexible, durable space.
A 100m-wide, 190m-long arched roof covers 11 maintenance bays. The economical long-span structure provides good daylight and eight metres of clear headroom above the tracks.
The parallelogram shape of the building suggested the use of a diagrid rather than a conventional orthogonal grid, and this generated the concept for a space-frame roof. This is supported by tree-like columns which spread the load onto the v-shaped supports at the perimeter, and is cut with diagonal slit windows allowing sunlight to flood the space below.
Data
- Begun: Apr 1994
- Completed: Mar 1998
- Floor area: 18,720m2
- Sector: Transport
- Total cost: £18.7M
- Address: Burford Road, Stratford, London, E15 2ST, United Kingdom
Professional Team 
- Architect: Wilkinson Eyre Architects
- Project architects: Dominic Bettison, James Edwards, Johathon Woodroffe, Keith Brownlie, Nicola Smerin, Oliver Tyler, Paul Baker, Simon Dodd, Stafford Critchlow, Stewart McGill, Zoe Barber
- Client: Jubilee Line Extension Project
- Services engineer: Hurley Palmer Partnership
- Environmental consultant: Loren Butt Consultants
- Main contractor: Laing Construction
- Structural engineer: Hyder Consulting
- Quantity surveyor: Hyder Consulting
Suppliers
- Primary Structural Steelwork: Rowan Structures
- KalWall Suppliers: KalWall Corporation
- Architectural metalwork: Wanstead Welding Works
- Profiled metal cladding and decking: Plannja
- Structural glazing: Pilkington Architectural
- Louvred cladding: Greenwood Airvac Ventilation