The analytic and numerical definition of the geometry of the British Museum Great Court Roof

Christopher J K Williams

The analytic and numerical definition of the geometry of the British Museum Great Court Roof

Christopher J K Williams

Department of Architecture & Civil Engineering

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Abstract

The steel and glass British Museum Great Court Roof covers a rectangular area of 70 by 100 metres containing the 44 metre diameter Reading Room. The paper describes in detail how the spiralling geometry of the steel members was generated working closely with the architects, Foster and Partners, and the engineers, Buro Happold A combination of analytic and numerical methods were developed to satisfy architectural, structural and glazing constraints. Over 3000 lines of computer code were specially written for the project, mainly for the geometry definition, but also for structural analysis.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Mathematics & design 2001
Editors	M Burry, Sambit Datta, A Dawson, A J Rollo
Place of Publication	Geelong, Victoria, Australia
Publisher	Deakin University
Pages	434-440
Number of pages	7
ISBN (Print)	0-7300-2526-8
Publication status	Published - 2001

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Proceedings of the the Third International Conference on Mathematics & Design, M&D-2001. Deakin University, Geelong, Australia, July 3-5, 2001.

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The analytic and numerical definition of the geometry of the British Museum Great Court Roof

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