A particularly exciting customer project is the high-speed toll station by Jiangsu Jingong Space Structure Co., Ltd. In this project, a membrane is supported by an innovative arch truss, which has an interesting appearance and also special properties.
At the end of April 2023, a new aviary was completed at the Sichuan Pavilion in the Prague Zoo. The aviary structure has a length of 14 m and a width of 10 m. The company Carl Stahl & spol. created the architectural and structural design, calculated in RFEM 5.
A new timber structure can be admired in Monbijoupark in the city of Bern, Switzerland. The gazebo was built during the park renovation and is to be used as a meeting place in the future. The unusual shape is particularly eye-catching and fits perfectly with the surroundings.
The stand-alone program RWIND allowed Davide Prando (architect) and Marco Rota Nodari (engineer) to optimize the project, highlighting some critical locations on the buildings' surfaces, due to the high positive and negative pressure values encountered.
For many years, VM Architettura Integrata has been involved in the design of rainscreens for buildings of considerable size; in this particular case, the collaboration between Arch. Davide Prando and Eng. Marco Rota Nodari has enabled the further development of wind flow analyses, examining two towers with heights of about 393 ft and 295 ft (120 m and 90 m), respectively, in a digital wind tunnel.
The German "Digital Timber Construction" (DTC) Lab headed by Prof. Dr. Christopher Robeller has recently completed an impressive showcase of its research activities. It is a lightweight and environmentally friendly timber gridshell, which is part of the "Timber Structure Interface" (TSI) research project, built in Moritzplatz in the city of Augsburg, Germany.
The successful general redevelopment of AQUAtherm has been providing year-round swimming pleasure in Straubing since 2021. The structure of the indoor swimming pool is something very special.
This is a research and development project with the long-term goal to design a circular timber house that is energy-efficient and provides excellent living comfort using a rotation system according to the sun's position.
This project aims to rehabilitate, extend, and enhance the former Haras ice rink, located near the Château d'Angers, a castle in the city of Angers, belonging to the ABF sector (Architectes des Bâtiments de France). The aim is to create a modern sports facility that meets the needs of the local community while preserving the existing architectural heritage.
After its creation in 2022, the second edition of the Festival des Cabanes at the Villa Medici in Rome takes place from May 24 to October 1, 2023. Throughout the summer, it offers architects, artists, and people interested in art and culture the opportunity to visit the exhibition in the historic gardens of the Villa Medici. One of the seven cabin projects has benefited from the intervention of Atelier PoCo, a French customer of Dlubal Software, for its design and technical study.
In Cologne, a new exhibition greenhouse and an orangery are going to enrich the Flora botanical garden. The exhibition greenhouse consists of three arched building sections that are connected to each other.
The Jewish community center, including a synagogue, is an all-round successful structure, fitting seamlessly into the cityscape of Regensburg, Germany. The connection of a community center in the northern part and a synagogue with a spherical dome in the southern part is something very special.
The new sports hall of the Alice Salomon School in Hanover is exceptional from an architectural and structural point of view. The timber structure stands on a reinforced concrete first floor and cantilevers above it at the sides about 18 ft.
The "Azerbaijan Pavilion" was an eye-catcher at Expo 2021 in Dubai. Simmetrico network and iDeas were responsible for the architecturally valuable design. Among other things, Dlubal customer Rubner Ingenieurholzbau created the structural analysis and design, and constructed the complex glued-laminated timber structure at its own site.
The new Desmet-Dardenne funeral parlor opened in the town of Chimay, France in 2021. In the search for an ecological construction, the choice focused on a structure made mainly of timber. Due to the free area of approximately 15,177 ft², the structure of this new funeral parlor allowed for gathering various funeral services in one place: a reception hall, workshop, store, offices, and storage space.
The "Bamboo Stalactite" is a project representing Vietnam at the 16th edition of the Venice Biennale for Architecture. La Biennale di Architettura di Venezia is an international exhibition held every 2 years in Venice (Italy), in which architects from all over the world participate, presenting their projects.
At over 807,293.28 square feet, the new Tianfu Agriculture Exposition is the largest timber structure in Asia, and one of the largest timber structures in the world. It is a series of five arched halls that use unique Vierendeel-inspired trusses.
ATP architekten ingenieure is an Austrian customer of Dlubal, working in Innsbruck. It has designed a special project for Markus Handl Beteiligung GmbH, a speck producer in Pians, Tyrol, Austria. The new building of the trading company has in-house production, supplying upscale restaurants and hotels. It includes one of the world's largest continuous cross-laminated timber panels, with a total area of about 6,996 square feet.
The building is located on avenue Melchor Ocampo, Tercera Sección, in El Espinal, Oaxaca, Mexico. It is a building with a pharmacy on the ground floor and medical offices on the upper floors with partitions made of lightweight material.
The Fondation Avicenne, formerly known as the Maison de l'Iran, created in the 1960s, is a building of the Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris (CIUP) which now shelters many houses where students from all around the world are accommodated in an outstanding landscaped environment. The architect Claude Parent completely redesigned the sketches of Iranian architects Mosheine Foroughi and Heydar Ghiai, who originally designed this project, initiated by Mohammad Reza Chahd'Iran.
Dlubal's Spanish customer Estudi M103, an architectural office for structural consulting and calculation reports located in Barcelona, participated in an extraordinary construction project. The "Cirerers" project arises from a contest for municipal building sites for cohousing published by the Barcelona City Council in 2016.
Dlubal customer Estudi M103, an architecture office for structural consulting and calculation reports, was commissioned to carry out the structural consulting of the first office building built entirely of wood in Spain, using Dlubal RFEM software. It is an office building with a ground floor and 4 above-ground stories, located on Calle Llacuna 42 in Barcelona. With this type of building, construction periods are shortened due to the use of new sustainable materials, and even carbon emissions are reduced by 50% during construction.
An innovative research project has been carried out on the company premises of STM Montage GmbH in Lunzenau, Germany: A wind power plant with a lattice tower, where the uppermost segment consists of fiber-reinforced molded timber pipes.
Europlaza Movilidad is an 86,111 ft2 building that includes a bank branch, the Federal Government's Mobility Secretariat, and the State Government's Public Works Secretariat. It has parking space in the basement and offers seven above-ground stories of office space. The roof is used for air-conditioning equipment. The building is located in Villahermosa, the capital of the state of Tabasco, Mexico.
The Moongate residence, located in Sedona, Arizona, USA, was exceptionally designed by the Scottsdale-based architecture and planning studio of SWABACK.
High Point "E" is a residential building with approximately 107,639 ft² of living space (13-story residential building on a 2-story base structure with a 2-story underground parking garage).
The goal was to design a spiral staircase with glass steps and railings spanning 2 floors. With sophisticated anchoring details and helical stringers created from subtle rectangular hollow sections, a light and elegant staircase was formed. The interior spiral staircase is located inside the educational, training, and rehabilitation center in the city of Zlín.
The arched hall includes a 72 ft x 177 ft rectangular floor plan, height of 33 ft and roof radius of 66 ft. The structure houses large offices with additional storage space available.
This project was designed using BIM technology. During the documentation process, IFC files were used for the data exchange. The architectural building model was first created in REVIT, then exported to RFEM to apply loads and complete the full structural analysis and design.
EGOIN SA was awarded a timber design project for 35 new CLT apartments in Girona, Spain. Cross-laminated timber (CLT) was selected as the building material due to its sustainability, ability to filter CO2, and architectural design freedom.