Technology: From the Construction of a Building to the Design of the Processes involved

Adaptable strip facade: One Ocean theme pavilion, Expo 2012, Yeosu, South Korea
architects: soma; structural planning of kinetic facade: Knippers Helbig Advanced Engineering
For every task with which it is confronted, architecture knows an almost endless number of solutions, whereas engineers can draw on only a limited range. Towards the end of the 19th century, the theory of structures was established as a tool for design and analysis, and hinged joints were introduced to arch and frame construction – not to increase the...
Adaptable strip facade: One Ocean theme pavilion, Expo 2012, Yeosu, South Korea
architects: soma; structural planning of kinetic facade: Knippers Helbig Advanced Engineering