As a service center for the Asian Games, Yungui offers waiting and relaxation areas for technical officials and media representatives. The design of the project is inspired by Hangzhou's city flower, the osmanthus, and picks up on the design concept of “osmanthus blossoms hanging above the clouds.”
The supporting structure of this project is based on a system of three glued, sloping timber columns and three mutually supporting steel trusses. The connection points between the beams and columns were specially designed to have the ideal mechanical properties of a hinge.
After completing the structural optimization in Grasshopper, the engineers could import the wireframe drawing of the structure from Rhino into RFEM thanks to the import/export interface between RFEM and Rhino.
After importing into RFEM, RWIND was used to perform numerical wind tunnel simulations on the structure to determine the wind pressure distribution on the surface.
Subsequently, the strength, stability, and fire resistance of all timber components were verified using the Timber Design add-on according to Chinese standards GB 50005-2017 and GB/T 50708-2012.
Quote from the customer: “This project impressively shows the applicability of Dlubal software in the field of timber structure design.”
| Location | Qianjiang Century City 311215 Hangzhou China |
| Structural Design | Nanjing Tech University |
