Instructors:
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Frank Wellershoff
Roman Baudisch

Coauthors:
Jack Ross,
David Albers,
Stephan Berthold

In this course, our group had to fulfill three tasks.

1 / GLASS CONSTRUCTION

We have designed a fully glazed waiting area for the planned HVV ferry station at HCU. All bearing elemts had to be glass.

We also had to calculate the load-bearing capacity and plan the details of the glass construction accordingly.

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2 / LATTICE SHELL FACADE

In the second part of the course, we designed a double-curved lattice shell as a glass roof for a shopping mall. We used Rhino 3D to convert this into a surface model, and then we optimized it with the use of Grasshopper, resp.Evolute Tools, for a cost-effective production. We have also prepared the file for 3D printing.

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3 / CABLE FACADE

In the last part of the course, we had to design a cable facade (including construction details) for the same shopping center. This facade had to be curved around at least one axis and carried out with diagonal cable girders.