Titanic Visitor Centre

The architecturally stunning roof, designed to mimic the bow of a boat, is 10 degree monopitch construction with walk-in secret gutters, falling tangentially at 5.2 and 5.6 degrees. Dams were designed across the two, 60 metre long gutters, enabling water to collect about the siphonic outlet of Geberit’s Pluvia system, before cascading into the next dam.

“Conventional gravity outlets would not have been feasible with the volume of water collected and channelled into the ‘flumes’ and a traditional weir overflow couldn’t be formed without interrupting the facade geometry and spoiling the form of the building,” explained Angus Waddington from Todd Architects.

“To combat these issues, an additional overflow system was installed. Geberit rose to the challenge of solving these potential issues and seemed to relish the opportunity to do something ‘different’. They were fully supportive, providing technical assistance and calculations to review the unusual performance criteria.”