Complex Buildings & Hybrid Structures Photo Gallery:

This building has the effect of another building running through it, using a diagonal skewed wall. The protruding building serves as office space. Typical PEMB roof purlins can only span so far. When you need to span further, we can integrate bar joists into the roof design. Hips form easily because OSI's draftsman use a one piece, fully formed butterfly clip to make the hip connection. No parts and pieces to bolt together at every turn. This hipped building is actually a home! The structure is designed to withstand 150 MPH winds. In hurricane prone regions, this is a perfect solution. When this congregation approached OSI about an octagonal sanctuary, we said “No problem.” When they asked for a double octagon, we said “No problem.” This building features a valley cut into the octagonal roof to join the sanctuary with the family life center. This building features a valley cut into the octagonal roof to join the sanctuary with the family life center. To eliminate the need for fill dirt we built this building "taller" to bring it up to grade, providing more building space, and saved money on fill dirt. The compression ring shown here is the hub for the hip frames to form the octagon. This church wanted to build a pyramid. OSI was able to make a unique frame line at every location, and tie them all together at the apex of the pyramid. These roof purlins were set close enough together that the customer could deck the building with plywood and roof it with the asphalt shingles.

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