Nemetschek Engineering User Contest 2009 • Category 5: CAE Special Projects 199 5 to be rather frail when exposed to (wind) pressure. IMd suggested an extra connection on two places, which led to a much more solid object. This meant that the amount of steel could be reduced. After the initial manual calculations, a 3D-drawing was made of the final shape. This was then used to compute a Scia Engineer model of the vast object. The model was first drawn up as a wire-frame model, after which the steel slabs were added as discs. After that, the model was used to optimise the steel edge moulding, which was welded alongside the sea container’s slabs. Ultimately, “Container Origami” was manually constructed, using a carefully cut-open sea container. The entire work of art was then moved, by special transport, to its final position. The folly, which initially was to be a temporary construction, was adopted by the city of Rotterdam, and thereby gained its permanent status as a work of art. Container Origami, Rotterdam
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