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4.3.1 Timmerhuis – Rotterdam (The Netherlands)

Course subject(s) 4. Detail + Tolerances

From Germany, we travelled closer to home and stopped over in Rotterdam.  Timmerhuis is a new building for the city hall, where the façade doctors have arranged to meet their colleague Mauro Overend. The chat today is about structural design of façades.

Building: Timmerhuis
Location: Rotterdam, the Netherlands
Year: 2015
Architect: J.R.A. Koops and Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA)
Façade engineer: Scheldebouw B.V.
Partner: Dr. Mauro Overend, Professor of Structural Design and Mechanics, Delft Technical University

Watch the interview and add your notes to the stickies below.

Structural systems

Structural design of façades:

 

Deadload 

Payload

Impact loads

Building structure / façade structure

Global design / detail design: 

 

Façade structure

Detail design

Connection to building

 

How to decide the system/material:

 

Strategies for the design

Which system?

Which material?
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