Project description
Fornale Engineering was commissioned for the form-finding process for the construction of a complex-shaped roof deck in São Paulo, Brazil.
The roof deck, which houses a restaurant below and is clad in glass, has a floor plan of approximately 700 sqm and is made of GLT glulam.
The assignment also included the design of the top glulam floor on reinforced concrete columns.
Professional assignment
- Research of the optimal structural solution;
- Parametric modeling and FEM analysis;
- Executive structural design for glulam;
- Economic optimization of connections.
