Isotropic Spherical Shell

The focus here is to create a generalization of a building system by understanding the geometric dependencies and its constructive constraints which is to be defined and evaluated. The challenge after is to propose enhancements to the system and a study of constructive trade-offs when the building system is applied to an another geometry.

This presentation is divided in two sections. During the first one, we re-model the building aiming to reach better metrics than its been proposed in the original building.At the second part we re-adapt this generation method to the provided surface. Starting building, Saldome : A warehouse for road salt storage in, Switzerland.  The building has a diameter of 120 meters and a height of 32 meters. Storing 100,000 tons of salt; more than twice the capacity of a normal warehouse.Thanks to its design approximating to the spherical shape, it only consumes half as much building materials.The timber construction has technical reasons, neither concrete nor steel would withstand the enormous salt load in the long term. It also meets ecological criteria: the silver firs and spruces for the supporting structure come to a large extent from the nearby Rheinfelder Forest and were processed untreated by a Swiss timber construction company into the supporting structure made of glued arched beams. The salty air, on the other hand, will preserve the wood

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