Waffle ceiling or lattice is a double slab made of orthogonal concrete joists and covered with a slab of constant thickness. The Waffle ceiling has been used extensively in the US and European countries since the early 1940s. Because of its unique beauty, the Waffle Roof has always been a favorite among architects in a variety of structures such as passenger terminals, parking lots, residential buildings, towers, hotels, amphitheaters, meeting rooms and the like.
Benefits of cuboid waffle slab:
- Dead weight loss and seismic mass
- Ability to run long openings
- Fixed roof thickness
- Fireproof
- Run speed
- No need for high strength concrete
- Possibility to run on concrete and steel structures
- Freedom of action in space design and column layout
- Architectural beauty and no need for cover under the roof
- Vibration control
- Deformation control
- Possibility of modular and simple implementation of false ceilings
- Optimized noise control and acoustic ceiling
- Possibility of using hollow ceiling space
- Ease of installation and operation of the pop-up before or after the ceiling