The INMOS microprocessor was designed by Richard Rogers and built in Newport, Wales in 1982. What made this design flexible was that it was potentially suitable for construction in a variety of locations. The fact that this factory needed to be constructed quickly meant that Rogers had to incorporate a great deal of prefabricated material into the design. Like the Reliance Controls factory, Rogers brings the structural elements to the exterior, but this time to the roof, and the loads are dispersed across the building using tensile supports.
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Powell, Kenneth, Richard Rogers, Artemis, London
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