National Veterans Memorial Museum

The Ohio Veterans Memorial and Museum was designed by the architect Allied Works from Portland, Oregon, in collaboration with Knippers Helbig Advanced Engineering. The building is two stories tall with a total height of about 60 ft. The area of the building is about 53,000 square feet. The architectural concept is closely integrated with the structural design. A series of intertwined reinforced concrete rings supports the roof as a visible design element. A ramp winds its way up to the roof of the building, where a gathering place is located. The roof and floor systems are structural steel frames with Composite stell Floors and beams. The ramp is executed as a T-beam construction. The rings were designed as site-cast concrete-construction with architecturally demanding fair-faced concrete surfaces. The poor soil condition implied a deep pile foundation. Lateral stiffness is provided by the stiff inner ring, which functions as a central concrete core as well as the diagonal geometry of the middle and outer rings.