Gridshell
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Project • By Elding Oscarson • Museums
Wisdome Stockholm
Wisdome Stockholm is a forward-looking extension of the National Museum of Science and Technology in Stockholm, Sweden (known in Swedish as Tekniska museet). Designed by Stockholm-based Elding Oscarson, the 1,325-square-metre extension has a sweeping and sculptural dome-shaped roof. This timber gridshell structure is the first known gridshell built from flat, standard laminated veneer lumber (LVL) panels.
Mikael Olsson
Elding Oscarson
Mikael Olsson
An immersive interior and sculptural exterior
The Wisdome Stockholm extension includes an immersive spherical dome, with high-resolution visual and audio technology that takes visitors on an exploration of the galaxy. The building also houses an exhibition hall and cafe.... More
Project • By AIDIA STUDIO • Train stations
Tulum Train Station
The station sits in the beach resort of Tulum, in the Mexican Caribbean, along the Riviera Maya. The primary goal in the design process was to push the sustainability agenda to the foreground and to find in that optimized performance a narrative which would speak about the qualities of pre-Hispanic Mayan Architecture through the use of light, shadows, patterns, materials and vegetation.
AIDIA STUDIO
One of the key elements was to minimise the footprint of the station, so after exploring different spatial configurations, an eye-shaped footprint, widest at the centre, where the main functions converge, seemed the most efficient use of space. This was enhanced by stacking the public programme of the station above the platforms de... More
Project • By Delugan Meissl Associated Architects • Restaurants
Taiyuan Botanical Garden
The project was launched with the ambitious objective of transforming a former coal-mining area into a landscape park, which is not only a model for the landscape design that is so essential in China, but also contains a building infrastructure that can be used for researching into and offering people access to and information about natural ecosystems. The politically stated need to create high-quality leisure areas in or close to cities and to find ways of controlling the resulting large numbers of visitors formed the basis for the definition of a spatial programme. This envisaged not only the creation of the landscape park itself, but also the construction of a central entrance building with a nature museum and administration facility, th... More