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Envelopes: Structures at the boundary

 Envelopes: Structures at the boundary
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Presented at IABSE Symposium: Engineering for Progress, Nature and People, Madrid, Spain, 3-5 September 2014, published in , pp. 2288-2294
DOI: 10.2749/222137814814069075
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New technological boundaries have brought about a new envelope design paradigm. Modern digital tools and fabrication techniques are making possible more complex shapes and larger scales. In respon...
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Author(s):

Medium: conference paper
Language(s): English
Conference: IABSE Symposium: Engineering for Progress, Nature and People, Madrid, Spain, 3-5 September 2014
Published in:
Page(s): 2288-2294 Total no. of pages: 7
Page(s): 2288-2294
Total no. of pages: 7
Year: 2014
DOI: 10.2749/222137814814069075
Abstract:

New technological boundaries have brought about a new envelope design paradigm. Modern digital tools and fabrication techniques are making possible more complex shapes and larger scales. In response, the structural engineering has to evolve into façade engineering, a new and distinct field.

Keywords:
digital design geometry Large span structures Geometrically complex large scale envelopes façade engineering