SCIA User Contest 2020 Flipping Book

160 The “Wooden Ball” viewing platform – with its total height of 40.0 m – is located in Steinberg am See. The main construction consists of laminated timber and slim iron components that transfer tensile stress. The foundation of the Wooden Ball is formed by a reinforced concrete plate with the thickness of 0.85 m and the diameter of 29.00 m. The geometric form, the height of the construction and the combination of different loads (pay- and snow load, wind pressure) require intensive structural design in coordination with the architecture. The result is a meaningful and efficient structural design, with an optimised component design. The quick geometric design input , combined with the automatic cross-section optimization , resulted in significant time savings in the structural design. Problems were solved constructively together with the SCIA Engineer hotline . WOODEN BALL Steinberg am See , Germany NOMINEE 6000 m² 6000 m² 462 “Use of multi-materials in the original design with the automatic optimisation of the cross-sections.”