First Exercise

Commercial Building:
Suite Deals, 459 Church St. Richmond, Architect unknown.

Was garage, now furniture showroom.




The garage, suitable for its original and current purposes has long stretches of uninterrupted space. This is achieved by the use of long-span trusses. The trusses are timber and considering their size and design, were probably specially engineered for this building.
The trusses ends rest on brick piers, which probably conceal steel columns.
The trusses were at some points laterally stabilised with butting timber beams.