Thin-shell structures are lightweight constructions using shell elements.
Notable projects
Asia/Pacific
- Nagoya Dome, Nagoya, Japan
- Parish of the Holy Sacrifice at the University of the Philippines Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines
- Putrajaya Convention Centre, Putrajaya, Malaysia
- Sydney Opera House, Sydney, Australia
- Tokyo Dome, Tokyo, Japan
- Tower Infinity, Seoul, South Korea
Europe
- Adziogol Lighthouse, Kherson Oblast, Ukraine
- Aquatoll, Neckarsulm, Germany
- Berlin Main Station, Berlin, Germany
- Dortmund Opera House, Dortmund, Germany
- Dos Hermanas Velodrome, Dos Hermanas, Spain
- Eden Project, Cornwall, England
- Espace des Inventions, Swiss national exposition of 1964, Lausanne, Switzerland
- Europe 1 Transmitter Building, Felsberg-Berus, Germany
- Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
- Imperial War Museum, Duxford, England
- Parabolic steel-and-glass roof of the Kiyevsky railway station, Moscow, Russia
- Korkeasaari Lookout Tower, Helsinki, Finland
- L'Oceanogràfic at the City of Arts and Sciences, Valencia, Spain
- Lotus Sculpture at the Goodwood Festival of Speed, UK
- Milan Trade Fair, Milan, Italy
- Palau Guell, Barcelona, Spain
- Philips Pavilion at the Expo '58, Brussels, Belgium
- Pylons of Cadiz, Cadiz, Spain
- Queen Elizabeth II Great Court of the British Museum, London, England
- Sagrada Familia, Barcelona, Spain
- Shukhov's Rotunda at the All-Russia exhibition, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
- Shukhov Tower, Moscow, Russia
- Stanislav Range Front Light, Kherson Oblast, Ukraine
- Swiss Air Force Museum, Zurich, Switzerland
- Weald and Downland Gridshell at the Weald and Downland Open Air Museum, Chichester, England
- Zeiss-Planetarium, Jena, Germany
- Norwich Sports Village,1 Norwich, UK
North America
- Centre Pierre Charbonneau, Montréal, Canada
- Dorton Arena, North Carolina, US
- Ingalls Rink at Yale University, Connecticut, US
- Kresge Auditorium, Massachusetts, US
- Lambert-St. Louis International Airport, Missouri, US
- McDonnell Planetarium at the St. Louis Science Center, Missouri, US
- Montreal Biosphère, Montreal, Canada
- Payson Athletic Center, Arizona, US
- Scotiabank Saddledome, Alberta, Canada
- Spaceship Earth at Disney World, Florida, US
- TWA Flight Center of John F. Kennedy International Airport, New York, US
- Washington Dulles International Airport, Virginia, US
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Thin-shell structures.References
Shell Structures: lessons in structural efficiency for sustainable construction, The Structural Engineer, IStructE 2020, https://www.istructe.org/journal/volumes/volume-98-(2020)/issue-4/shell-structures-lessons-in-structural-efficiency/ https://www.istructe.org/journal/volumes/volume-98-(2020)/issue-4/shell-structures-lessons-in-structural-efficiency/ ↩