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Location |
Barcelona, Spain |
Dates |
May 1999 - January 2006 |
Architect |
Richard Rogers Partnership |
Structural Engineer |
Buro Happold |
Project : |
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| Hotel, retail, conference and sports complex in an area of regeneration
in Barcelona. Hotel forms distinctive 105m high, 30 storey tower block with
restaurant at roof level. Restaurant is formed using a mathematical polyhedron
with refined mesh projection to minimise number of differently shaped triangles. |
My Role : |
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- Create software to generate and refine geodesic dome geometries
- Develop flat-panel geometry for model-making
- Optimisation study on spherical cut position to meet geometrical and aesthetic constraints
- Optimisation study on panel size and repetition
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