The design information for the roof is purely generated from 5240 lines of computer code which produces a model of about 120,000 elements in15 seconds.
The roof is a white painted steel structure with a glass and aluminium exterior cladding system. Internal cladding is white painted aluminium rods over a mid grey fabric covered recycled ‘jeans’ acoustic insulation. Columns are clad with mid-umber anodised aluminium sheet and have single casting at the head.
The roof is double glazed with a solar coating and fritted with 3mm white dots covering 65% of surface.
Number of glass panels: 864 of which 92 are triangular. All glass sizes are different due to varying, site responsive geometry.
Roof is a flattened tied shell structure supported on eight columns which take all loads including lateral stability.
Overall Weight of steel: approximately 900 tons
