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Left: Detail developed for three of the four concrete cores to support the shaped sky; right: façade beam (red) in explosion of concrete landscape and shaped sky.
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This paper describes innovative aspects in the parametric structural design process of an automotive flagship store from competition to construction documentation. Novel approaches in design workflow and tight integration of architecture and engineering from the earliest phases on enable a strong correlation of design intent and realized artifact....
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... with the architectural program the geometry was subject to profound change several times during the schematic design phases, the design of a hierarchical structural system came about early on. The four cores are the main elements stabilizing the shaped sky vertically and horizontally, see the detail for the connection in Figure 4. The vertically supporting column clusters are built just as pinned rods for the sake of their slenderness, not taking any bending moments or horizontal forces. ...
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... beam to hang the entire glass façade from is placed on the underside of the roof, set in from the perimeter between 5 and 20 meters. The maximum vertical displacements for the façade beam were bounded to 10 cm (see Figure 4). algorithmic parameterization-and optimization technology to conclude with efficiency of workflow and designed structure in the given time frame. ...
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... algorithmic optimization methods are used to improve performance quantitatively, but also to identify mechanisms and bottlenecks and to identify modeling mistakes. Conflicting intentions are negotiated with multi-objective genetic algorithms (Vierlinger, 2013) to place the column clusters (Fig.4), while structural member sizes immediately follow each design change with a Eurocode-based algorithm until design documentation phase (Fig.5). ...