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Message: [QUOTE="sutomcat, post: 3411735, member: 27"] Cool. That one has even more parallels to what is happening here, I think. You can see the same crown truss used (even the same girders). I wonder if we are going to use the same opaque thick square plastic panels as the outer layer of material for the hard shell part of the roof? It would say this is likely. I know we have seen that before in other Pfeiffer projects. The one drawing we have of the new roof using a perspective from inside the building makes it look like there will be a layer of material between the hard roof and the interior of the building. Maybe for insulation, maybe to absorb sound, maybe to hide some ugly mechanicals inside the hard roof? Not sure. If there really is a layer of material like that, I have to believe it will absorb a lot of sound and make the new building noticeably quieter than it could be. The same URL that had the new drawing of the exterior of the new roof has a bigger, better quality version of the drawing of the new roof from the inside. From this, you can see a lot more than you could before. You can see that the cables that support the roof look like they are going to be pulled across from wall to wall and kept tight, making them almost (maybe completely?) flat. The arches will sit on top of these cables, supported by columns. You can see, I think, what [USER=5058]NJCuse97[/USER] was talking about, how the arches on top of the supporting cables form interior trusses (the one on the upper left is particularly easy to see). This is way different than what I was thinking it would look like. I hope the PTFE really is clear enough that you can see the blue of the sky on a clear day. I think Pete Sala indicated it would not, but it would let in more light than the old roof. The old roof had only one layer in the middle section, but I think that layer was a little more opaque than the PTFE will be. And the middle portion of the roof on the new roof, that lets in more light, will be significantly bigger on the new roof than the old one. I think it will be a significantly more airy, open feel than we are used to. Thoughts? [ATTACH type="full"]182243[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]

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