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a Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands b Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands WhatsAppLINKEDINFACEBOOKTWITTERPRINTMORE Date: 14 May 2021 This research investigates the potential of glass as a new design tool to highlight and safeguard our historic structures. Current restoration and conservation treatments with traditional materials bear the risk of conjecture between the original and new elements, whereas the high consolidation demands often result in visually invasive and i...

  In the past glass design in Switzerland was based on foreign standards and regulations. Questions raised whether the application of these standards is suitable, as they do not comply with the Swiss Standard SIA 260 –Basis of design. The most used standards are the German technical regulations for the use of glazing with linear supports (TRLV) and the DIN 18008. The Swiss society of engineers and architects (SIA) initiated a structural glass standard committee with the task to develop a Swiss glass design standard. The new Swiss glass design standard is based on the same concept as the Eu...

Luigi Malomo, ISTI-CNR Maurizio Froli, DESTEC-University of Pisa Paolo Cignoni, ISTI-CNR   Shells made of structural glass are beautiful objects from both the aesthetics and the engineering point of view. However, they pose two significant challenges. The first one is to assure adequate safety and redundancy concerning possible global collapse. Being single-layered, in a shell made of structural glass, the brittle cracking of a single pane can lead to a sudden propagation of failure, up to instability. The second one is to guarantee cheap replacing possibilities for potentially collapsed com...

© Knippers Helbig A look behind the scenes Nearly six months of preliminary work regarding the static calculation of the load on the individual panes has been completed. This allows the construction to support itself with no screws in the substrate. The project is unique, but the special features are not limited to the frameless glass structure itself. We have extended requirements for glass refiners, explored new possibilities for constructive glass construction, and developed new processes. Each laminated safety glass pane consists of two 8-mm thick, semi-stressed individual panes made of ...

Europe Time (Berlin, GMT+01:00) Panelist(s) Info:             Philippe Willareth is Partner at Lüchinger+Meyer Bauingenieure AG heading the façade engineering team. He graduated as façade engineer at Lucerne University 2004. He is in charge of various key projects and is on the board of the Swiss Façade Association linking the consultancy to the façade industry. Duration:               Description:              The Swiss watch manufacturer’s museum twists up in a spiral that emerges from the ground. The architects from BIG and the structural engineers from Lüc...