Cases of Lightweight Structures for Polar Areas

Jessica Fernandoy-Bak; Julian Christ; Paul Shepherd; Holger Koss

Cases of Lightweight Structures for Polar Areas

Jessica Fernandoy-Bak, Julian Christ, Paul Shepherd, Holger Koss

Department of Architecture & Civil Engineering

Technical University of Denmark

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The paper focuses on what the authors call ‘Polar Lightweight Structures’. The first part presents a collection of lightweight structures (LWS) designed and built for Antarctic conditions, with the aim of demonstrating the diversity of approaches attempted by designers. The second part of the paper presents two studies where different computational methods were applied for the design of generic LWS based on the local conditions of two particular Polar locations; namely, the Arctic region and Glacier Union in the Antarctic plateau. Both studies were conducted independently with the aim of demonstrating the feasibility of employing LWS of larger dimensions/scale than currently seen in Polar settings.

Original language	English
Publication status	Published - 25 Sept 2017
Event	IASS Annual Symposium 2017: Interface: architecture, engineering, science - Hamburg, Germany Duration: 25 Sept 2017 → 27 Sept 2017

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Conference	IASS Annual Symposium 2017
Country/Territory	Germany
City	Hamburg
Period	25/09/17 → 27/09/17

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