Tokyo International Forum – Giant Vierendeel Truss: Sketches

Precast Vierendeel box beams, six meters deep, spanning 50 meters at a height of 20 metters. The beams are pierced by huge chrysanthemum-shaped voids, which are illuminated.

Christopher Alexander recognized the importance of the geometry of centers and for years he was looking for the common structural features among buildings, paintings, streets, carpets, doors, windows, etc. which have "life" and "wholeness". He identified fifteen structural features which ...

Focusing primarily on the pure beauty of the geometric order, which comes, above all, from the building structure (columns, walls, beams, vaults and so forth), specifically from the aperiodic grids which form the abstract underpinning of the building structure.