Hyperbolic Paraboloid Roof Structure Joins
A hyperbolic paraboloid roof shell section made in prefabricated portions each of which has a joining edge parallel to the joining edge of another prefabricated portion and is adapted to extend.
Hyperbolic paraboloid roof structure joins. Horizontal sections taken through the surface are hyperbolic in format and vertical sections are parabolic. Antoni gaudi and shukhov carried out experiments with hyperboloid structures practically simultaneously but independently in 1880 1895. Antoni gaudi used structures in the form of hyperbolic paraboloid hypar and hyperboloid of revolution in the sagrada família in 1910. International colloquium on space structures for sports buildings 27 30 10 1987 beijing china pp.
It is also a doubly ruled surface that is every point on its surface lies on two straight lines across the surface. The hyperbolic paraboloids of the tor di valle racetrack in rome. Hyperbolic paraboloid shell structures author s. This is what the framing process of actually building one is like its all straight sections of wood and then the roofing is put on and structure removed.
In the sagrada família there are a few places on the nativity facade a design not equated with gaudi s ruled. Hyperbolic paraboloid thin shell concrete structures for sports buildings.