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Salvador Dalí Museum in Florida, USA

The Salvador Dalí Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida, USA, contains the largest collection of Dalí’s artwork outside Spain.

The architectural highlight is the "Enigma", a glazed atrium that drapes over the side of the boxy reinforced concrete building.

The architectural highlight is the "Enigma", a glazed atrium that drapes over the side of the boxy reinforced concrete building. The structural analysis of this unique steel-glass construction was carried out with RSTAB by Novum Structures, a customer of Dlubal Software.

Structure

The "Enigma" is a steel‑tube construction comprising more than 900 triangular glass panels. They form the protruding bulges. No two glass panels within the curving glass structures are identical so they provide a truly unique view of St. Petersburg’s picturesque waterfront.

The builders had to solve a mystery (Latin: Enigma) of how to shape, engineer, and hang the transparent structure. They achieved this with the fragile-looking glass structure, which is 75.5 ft at its tallest, 105 ft at its widest, and 27.5 ft at its deepest. It should withstand hurricane-force winds and windborne debris.

HOK’s architect Weymouth calls the Novum system a visual diagram of the way the structure performs, because the triangles get tighter in places of the greatest stress.

In 2010, HOK received the Novum Design Excellence Award for its iconic design of the Salvador Dalí Museum.
Location 1 Dali Blvd, St. Petersburg,
FL 33701, USA
Structural engineering (concrete) Dr. J. Grob & Partner AG
www.gropar.ch
Construction General Contractor
Beck Group
Atlanta, GA, USA
www.beckgroup.com
Architect HOK Architects
Tampa, FL, USA
www.hok.com


Project Specifications

Model data

Number of Nodes 815
Number of Members 1613
Number of Load Cases 16
Number of Load Combinations 76
Number of Result Combinations 2
Total Weight 46.989 tons
Dimensions 120.22 x 99.74 x 75.91 feet
Program Version 8.01.00

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