I am designing a large scale spherical venue and I am wondering if this design is unrealistic. Reinforced with the most stable support beams and plate material possible throughout the sphere and at the base, how would it stand over time and in extremely high wind? I hope it wouldn't roll away!
Seriously though Scott. It's a snow-globe, maybe reconsider that?
However I hate to be critical and unhelpful... so consider geodesic domes, stadium trusses or maybe even inflatable structures. All depends what you are going for.
I don't think that structural glass would be able to support the sphere. You will need some sort of interior structure to hold it up. You will probably end up with a geodesic dome. Look up Buckminster Fuller's Montréal Biosphère or Disney's Spaceship Earth at Epcot.
Would this structural concept stand in extreme weather conditions?
I am designing a large scale spherical venue and I am wondering if this design is unrealistic. Reinforced with the most stable support beams and plate material possible throughout the sphere and at the base, how would it stand over time and in extremely high wind? I hope it wouldn't roll away!
You mean for the snow on the inside?
Looks more like a gumball machine to me Z1111
Seriously though Scott. It's a snow-globe, maybe reconsider that?
However I hate to be critical and unhelpful... so consider geodesic domes, stadium trusses or maybe even inflatable structures. All depends what you are going for.
Is this a studio project?
Perhaps learn from precedents:
OMA Serpentine Pavilion rendering:
As built:
Sorry, I was unnecessarily harsh.
Acoustics will be important as well as the type of structure.
Google Étienne-Louis Boullée
I'd like to see the system required to shake the snow globe.
I don't think that structural glass would be able to support the sphere. You will need some sort of interior structure to hold it up. You will probably end up with a geodesic dome. Look up Buckminster Fuller's Montréal Biosphère or Disney's Spaceship Earth at Epcot.
Looks like a job for PTFE, perhaps.
http://urbanpeek.com/2011/06/30/the-gardens-of-eden-project/
Epcot
This is insane guys :D
Insane good. Thanks for sharing the example Donna.
I would never guess sth like that was built..
Wow, and I thought I was high in college...kush got me like whoa
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