The self-supporting, doubly curved shell roof has multiple layers: the heating and cooling coils and the insulation are installed over the inner concrete layer. A second, exterior layer of the ...

In plan the store has a curved, plectrum-shaped form and consists mainly of a single-storey sales floor which is 80 metres wide and 40 metres deep. The roof, an almost imperceptible barrel-vaulted ...

The test structure, which has already been dismantled, was 7.5m high with a surface area of 160m². It was built using a framework net of steel cables covered in a polymer textile. The concrete had an ...