Digital technology impacts on the Arnhem transfer hall structural design

The new Transfer Hall in Arnhem is one of the key projects to prepare the Dutch railways for the increased future demands for capacity. UNStudio developed a master plan in 1996 for the station area of which the completion of the Transfer Hall in 2015 will be a final milestone. The Transfer Hall is a merging point of passengers, commercial and...

Parametric modelling of architectural developables

The distinction whether a geometric description is complex or not is particularly important from an analysis and construction technology viewpoint in relation with the digital means of modelling this geometry. As complex geometry possibly leads to insurmountable problems or disproportionate high costs, realising a design may be reliant on...