SLIDERS STRUCTURE SYSTEM
INNOVATIVE PREFABRICATED WAREHOUSE

ANCHORAGE, ALASKA

This project focus was on designing an Assembly Plant for a prefabricated building company, Slider Structure Systems LLC, to be located in Anchorage, Alaska. The Plant was comprised of multiple buildings and the infrastructure that supports those buildings and the processes, equipment.

The concept and form of the building was derived from words which described the assembly plant and its functions.

+ SYSTEM
+ ASSEMBLY
+ FLEXIBILITY
= TESSELLATION

SYSTEM

An assemblage or combination of things or parts forming a complex or unitary whole. Any assemblage or set of correlated members. a coordinated body of methods or a scheme or plan of procedure; organizational scheme.

ASSEMBLE

To bring or call together into a group or whole: assembled the jury. To fit together the parts or pieces of: assemble a machine; assemble data. To gather together; congregate.

FLEXIBILITY

Responsive to change; adaptable. Susceptible to influence or persuasion; tractable.

TESSELLATION

A tessellation is the tiling of a plane using one or more geometric shapes, called tiles, with no overlaps and no gaps. In mathematics, tessellations can be generalized to higher dimensions.