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From Informed Parametric Design to Fabrication: The Complex Reinforced Concrete Shell of the Railway Station Stuttgart 21

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As part of one of Germany biggest infrastructure projects in the 21st century, a new underground train station is currently under construction in the heart of Stuttgart. The station’s freeform geometry coupled with high requirements regarding the execution quality necessitated the development of a number of highly sophisticated digital tools. These tools are presented in the following paper.

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  1. Werner Sobek AG, Albstr. 14, 70597, Stuttgart, Germany

    Frederic Waimer, Torsten Noack, Angelika Schmid & Roland Bechmann

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  1. Structural Design and Engineering, University of the Arts Berlin, Berlin, Germany

    Christoph Gengnagel

  2. School of Architecture Grenoble, École des Ponts ParisTech, Champs sur Marne, Paris, France

    Olivier Baverel

  3. School of Design, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

    Jane Burry

  4. Centre Information Technology and Architecture, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen, Denmark

    Mette Ramsgaard Thomsen

  5. Audio Communication Group, Technical University Berlin, Berlin, Germany

    Stefan Weinzierl

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Waimer, F., Noack, T., Schmid, A., Bechmann, R. (2020). From Informed Parametric Design to Fabrication: The Complex Reinforced Concrete Shell of the Railway Station Stuttgart 21. In: Gengnagel, C., Baverel, O., Burry, J., Ramsgaard Thomsen, M., Weinzierl, S. (eds) Impact: Design With All Senses. DMSB 2019. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29829-6_31

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