Design, engineering, production and realisation of spatial glass structures for 'Digital Baroque' architecture

摘要

Architects mainly generate the new Digital Baroque designs for buildings with their arbitrary and non-rectilinear form, from sculptural considerations. All lessons from past decades, where systemized spatial structures and economical building industrialization and their regularities were developed, the do's and don'ts were learned, seem forgotten. The load bearing structures of these buildings, disguised as artefacts, must be developed later than the initial design. The structural engineer rarely gets a position in the front row of the design process. The structural and cladding components of these buildings require an enormous effort in collaborative design and engineering. It should be recommended that, at least in the design phase, the concept of the building technical composition would be developed simultaneously with the architectural concept. Both the design and engineering phase and the production and realization phase, need a definite extremely high degree of collaboration between all the involved capable building parties, to reach the goal of a successful fluent design building, which will be a success to all parties.