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Long Span Roof for Mixed-use Retail Complex
Long Span Roof for Mixed-use Retail Complex
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King-Le Chang & Associates is working with Jerde in creating a roof structure that is informed by the winds generated at the location year around. The project is located in Dubai, UAE.
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Project Details
Location: Dubai, United Arab Emirates Scope of Service: Conceptual Design Architect: Jerde Partnership (Los Angeles, United States) Structural Engineer: King-Le Chang and Associates |
Imagine if the roof of the building were to have along its perimeter, spaced at approximately 9m, a series of ribbons, which are not tied at their ends. As the ribbons blow in the wind over the course of the year they collide in such a way that each has its own sine wave (because all the lengths are different). The result is a completely irregular, a-symmetrical series of random elements, which if then frozen in a collective moment, seize the qualities of what becomes the proposed roof.
The resultant surface appears as an elegant, undulating series of curves, which are all randomly interwoven. While serving as a membrane in that it is continuous and shall provide environmental separation between the indoor and outdoor spaces, it acts as a shell because it is the totality of its interwoven elements that gives it self-supporting capabilities. Thus no 'tree columns' or other such extra referent elements are required within the approximately 100 metres by 100 metres boundary of the roof.
The resultant surface appears as an elegant, undulating series of curves, which are all randomly interwoven. While serving as a membrane in that it is continuous and shall provide environmental separation between the indoor and outdoor spaces, it acts as a shell because it is the totality of its interwoven elements that gives it self-supporting capabilities. Thus no 'tree columns' or other such extra referent elements are required within the approximately 100 metres by 100 metres boundary of the roof.
