New Indian Research Station “Bharati” Antarctica During the Antarctic summer months of the years 2010/2011 and 2011/12, a new research station was built in East Antarctica for the Indian Ministry for Earth Sciences. Design and planning came from the German offices of bof architekten and IMS Ingenieurgesellschaft in Hamburg. The complex structural system con- sists of an enveloping steel construc- tion and a total of 134 special con- tainers integrated to transfer vertical and horizontal loads. The final struc- tural analysis was carried out by the German engineering office KSF in Bremerhaven. Structure The research station, which is for the most part a two-storey building, has a floor plan with the dimensions of about 30 m x 50 m and is more than 12 m high. The station wa

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