Chaple of Valley locates in narrow valley of Bailu Bay, Rizhao city, Shandong Province, China.
It's about 55m long, 3.4~7.1m wide, and 45m above ground.
The building is a steel + reinforced concrete combined sturcture.
It is surrounded by day wall of reinforced concrete, forming a free-form shell which is a three-sided enclosure, and a narrow opening on one side without a roof.
Shear resistance along the plane of the steel-reinforced concrete shear wll, and the cantilever bending resistance along the out-of plane direction of the wall.
The wall and steel frame section are gradually thickened and strengthened from top to bottom according to the structural force characteristics. At both ends of the structure the steel-reinforced concrete walls are solid. But in the middle of the section, in order to reduce the structural dead load and further reduce the seismic force, the wall is hollow.
The foundation is in the form of a thick raft with a thickness of 2m. dry sand cushion is set at the bottom of the foundation to release temperature stress to a certain extent.
The main structure and the raft foundation are connected as a whole to improve the overall anti-overturning ability of the structure.
In order to avoid the loss of strutural rigidity and the effect of faced concrete caused by cracks within 4m of the bottom of the wall, the bottom of the wall is designed as a compression-only unit, and the concrete tensile bearing capacity is not considered.