MULTIPURPOSE BUILDING

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a multipurpose building with great building frame strength, which secures a large astylar planning-free space having no column erected in a central section of a building, and in which a shaft for vertical piping, hindering a view, is not installed between columns. SOLUTION: In this multipurpose building, a utility area building 2 and a multipurpose area building 3 separate from the utility area building 2 are connected together via a communication passage 4; the utility area building 2 is equipped with a machine room, and a vertical movement means such as an elevator and a staircase; the multipurpose area building 3 is composed of one or more independent building frames 6; the building frame 6 comprises a plurality of columns 7 which are erected only on the border line of the frame and vertically elongated across a plurality of stories, a girder 8 which is arranged on the border line and rigidly joined to the column 7 on each story, and a beam 9 which is laid between the girders 8 facing each other at a short interval and rigidly joined to the girder 8; and the multipurpose area building 3 has the large astylar planning-free space. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT