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The Woolbeding kinetic glasshouse
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1657-6111
Designed by Heatherwick Studio and engineered and built by Bellapart, with the collaboration of EOC and Eadon, this new kinetic glasshouse sits within Woolbeding Gardens in West Sussex (England). The highly innovative design of this unique glasshouse features a series of 15 m long “sepals” that gently open and close, operating as a precise machine. Bellapart participated in the geometric, structural and automation design and engineering from early stages until detailing, fabrication, erection and commissioning. In its closed position, the Glasshouse is a 14.5 m high building with a 15 m diameter base and a maximum diameter of 19 m at the base of its ‘kinetic’ roof, at 2.8 m from the ground level. Its twenty-sided façade is cladded with Insulating Glass Units and anodized aluminium profiles and flashings, while the main structure is made of tapered welded custom made profiles of mild steel that meet in sharp angles and complex nodes. To allow its movement, the Glasshouse relies on 10 hydraulic cylinders. When closed, a pneumatic system inflates a gasket system to achieve a weathertight building envelope. In this paper, an overall view of the project is presented, with a focus on the mechanisms, the weathertightness and the structural design and verification, from the global verifications to details such as the structural nodes, the hinges and the glass and cladding retaining systems.
The Woolbeding kinetic glasshouse
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1657-6111
Designed by Heatherwick Studio and engineered and built by Bellapart, with the collaboration of EOC and Eadon, this new kinetic glasshouse sits within Woolbeding Gardens in West Sussex (England). The highly innovative design of this unique glasshouse features a series of 15 m long “sepals” that gently open and close, operating as a precise machine. Bellapart participated in the geometric, structural and automation design and engineering from early stages until detailing, fabrication, erection and commissioning. In its closed position, the Glasshouse is a 14.5 m high building with a 15 m diameter base and a maximum diameter of 19 m at the base of its ‘kinetic’ roof, at 2.8 m from the ground level. Its twenty-sided façade is cladded with Insulating Glass Units and anodized aluminium profiles and flashings, while the main structure is made of tapered welded custom made profiles of mild steel that meet in sharp angles and complex nodes. To allow its movement, the Glasshouse relies on 10 hydraulic cylinders. When closed, a pneumatic system inflates a gasket system to achieve a weathertight building envelope. In this paper, an overall view of the project is presented, with a focus on the mechanisms, the weathertightness and the structural design and verification, from the global verifications to details such as the structural nodes, the hinges and the glass and cladding retaining systems.
The Woolbeding kinetic glasshouse
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1657-6111
Designed by Heatherwick Studio and engineered and built by Bellapart, with the collaboration of EOC and Eadon, this new kinetic glasshouse sits within Woolbeding Gardens in West Sussex (England). The highly innovative design of this unique glasshouse features a series of 15 m long “sepals” that gently open and close, operating as a precise machine. Bellapart participated in the geometric, structural and automation design and engineering from early stages until detailing, fabrication, erection and commissioning. In its closed position, the Glasshouse is a 14.5 m high building with a 15 m diameter base and a maximum diameter of 19 m at the base of its ‘kinetic’ roof, at 2.8 m from the ground level. Its twenty-sided façade is cladded with Insulating Glass Units and anodized aluminium profiles and flashings, while the main structure is made of tapered welded custom made profiles of mild steel that meet in sharp angles and complex nodes. To allow its movement, the Glasshouse relies on 10 hydraulic cylinders. When closed, a pneumatic system inflates a gasket system to achieve a weathertight building envelope. In this paper, an overall view of the project is presented, with a focus on the mechanisms, the weathertightness and the structural design and verification, from the global verifications to details such as the structural nodes, the hinges and the glass and cladding retaining systems.
The Woolbeding kinetic glasshouse
Glass Struct Eng
Bitlloch, Carles-Hug (author) / Guitart, Núria (author)
Glass Structures & Engineering ; 8 ; 527-547
2023-12-01
21 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
The Woolbeding kinetic glasshouse
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