IAC Building, Frank Ghery, NYC.
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As we all know, Frank Ghery is on of those architects who makes the most out of experimenting with new technologies, models and 3d fabrication as well as 1:1 models of façade sections, and mockups. In this way, we are able to say that his buildings are in the edge of exploiting technology in order to explore new materials, new shapes and more complex structural solutions. Gehry is so into digital technologies that he owns a company called “Gehry Technologies”, http://www.gehrytechnologies.com/index.html, devoted to the production, solution and execution of Ghery’s projects, as well as anybody else’s.
The tilted position of the columns make of this building a breakthrough in the design of Ghery’s buildings. In the beginning Ghery’s proposals where only about the evolvement façade, this is a complete evolution since the internal structure responds to the external shape, the unusual shape of the skeleton was solved by the use of reinforced concrete. It became more than merely a scenic façade. What makes this building more interesting, is that all the formal part of the design, became a result of a number of plastic studies, many created directly through the help of technology, which evolved into a structural façade that would have been much more expensive and very hard to solve without the help of these technologies, making the geometry, very complex, every panel in the façade was resolved in a different size.
As we all know, Frank Ghery is on of those architects who makes the most out of experimenting with new technologies, models and 3d fabrication as well as 1:1 models of façade sections, and mockups. In this way, we are able to say that his buildings are in the edge of exploiting technology in order to explore new materials, new shapes and more complex structural solutions. Gehry is so into digital technologies that he owns a company called “Gehry Technologies”, http://www.gehrytechnologies.com/index.html, devoted to the production, solution and execution of Ghery’s projects, as well as anybody else’s.
The tilted position of the columns make of this building a breakthrough in the design of Ghery’s buildings. In the beginning Ghery’s proposals where only about the evolvement façade, this is a complete evolution since the internal structure responds to the external shape, the unusual shape of the skeleton was solved by the use of reinforced concrete. It became more than merely a scenic façade. What makes this building more interesting, is that all the formal part of the design, became a result of a number of plastic studies, many created directly through the help of technology, which evolved into a structural façade that would have been much more expensive and very hard to solve without the help of these technologies, making the geometry, very complex, every panel in the façade was resolved in a different size.
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