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Structural Design of a Retail Condominium Shopping Center
Fremont Times Square is a retail condominium shopping
center comprised of eight
single-story buildings that enclose a total of 94,800
square feet of retail space.
One of the buildings encloses 30,000 square feet of
space and is constructed with masonry exterior walls, a
wood roof and a concrete spread footing foundation.
The building exhibits a flat roof, a recessed dock and an
open floor plan for use by a single tenant.
The remaining seven buildings each enclose between
5,900 square feet and 11,800 square feet of space and
are constructed with wood framed exterior walls, a flat
wood roof and a concrete spread footing foundation.
Each of these buildings feature a floor plan that can be
used by multiple tenants.
Design challenges for this project include the openness
of the strorefronts which limited the amount of wall
space available for shearwalls on the wood framed
buildings. Additionally, the locations of interior
shearwalls were subject to how the spaces were sold so
locations were being changed as we were designing the
project.
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