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René Ziegler | Waagner-Biro Stahlbau
Beyond the Box - the Engineering of Freeform Surfaces in Steel and Glass
Envelopes enrobe buildings. Building envelopes of steel and glass reduce the applied elements to the supporting structure and the transparent cladding. A precise understanding of the workflow within the design development is necessary in order to achieve a good correlation of the conceptual design with the executed project. The following paper intends to provide a brief introduction into the principles of engineering of freeform surfaces.
PalaisQuartier - Frankfurt - Germany
Whitecity - London - UK
Złote Tarasy - Warszaw - Poland
NCC Spencer Dock - Dublin - Ireland
About speaker
René Ziegler *1966, studied at the department of civil engineering (Dipl.-Ing.) followed by the dissertation at the Institute of Structural Engineering at the Universität Karlsruhe (TH).
Head of the structural engineering department of the steel and glass division.
Technical project manager for the research project “Computing Multilayer Freeform Structures for Architecture” in cooperation with the Institute of Discrete Geometry at Technical University of Vienna. A project supported by BMVIT (Bundesministerium für Verkehr, Innovation und Technologie) and FFG within the programme “FIT-IT” www.fit-it.at.
Selected projects
Hangar 7, A-Salzburg
DomAquarée, D-Berlin
DR Byen, DK-Copenhagen
Dubai Festival City, UAE-Dubai
Whitecity, UK-London
NCC Spencer Dock, IRE-Dublin
PalaisQuartier, D-Frankfurt
About Waagner-biro Stahlbau
The division Stahl-Glas-Technik of the Waagner Biro Stahlbau Group is the specialist for modern architectural steel construction. The company concentrates on the planning, development and implementation of tailored, innovative solutions for complex requirements. We create unique structures of steel and glass, which combine unusual architecture with the lightness of a steel-glass construction. The Reichstag's dome in Berlin, the British Museum in London, the Copenhagen Opera and the Megaron Theatre in Athens are just a few examples. Leading international architects such as Lord Norman Foster, SOM (Skidmore, Owings & Merrill), The Jerde Partnership, A. Epstein and Sons, Murphy Jahn, Henning Larsen, Coop Himmelb(l)au, Hans Hollein and Sheppard Robson all value our innovative competence and our technical know-how.
