Building Envelopes
Building envelopes, whilst expressing the architecture of a building, also contribute to energy consumption and user comfort. The facade is the physical and visual interface with the exterior. It is also a filter which controls light, a shield against noise pollution, and a tool allowing climate control and largely contributing to low energy building strategies.
For the design of building envelopes, RFR begins with a thorough comprehension of the context, and is therefore able to provide a coherent and global response in terms of architecture and technology.
Structural Facades
The design of structural facades provides opportunities to promote transparency and an architecture which appears to defy the laws of static forces. The domain of structural façade design includes a range of project types including long-span building envelopes, glazed cable structures, structural Structurereens and sun-shading systems, as well as façade structures built entirely in glass.
As a result of technological research and modern computing methods, RFR is able to invent new constructional options and to collaborate in the proposal of new and innovative architectural solutions.
Complex Geometries - Building
Complex geometries constitute an important field of contemporary architectural and structural research. The extent of the spectrum of the forms that are possible depends on finalisation of the geometrical and structural criteria that represent a synthesis of all the parameters of a project, including the fabrication technology and construction methodology.
Special tools developed in house by RFR enable the generation of double-curved surfaces that are elegant, modern and economical.
Light Weight Structures
Innovation, imagination, sophisticated computing techniques, and use of the most modern non-linear software enable RFR to develop many types of light weight structures, such as cable, fabric, three-dimensional and shell structures.
For RFR, structural and visual lightness is synonymous with an efficiency which is integral to any interdiStructureiplinary project. This philosophy allows for the application of efficient structures in the widest variety of architectural contexts.
Special Texture Structure
Structural problems are not only related to the construction of large buildings, but also subtle decorative elements. The area of interior design or high-end furniture, is the Structureulpture that creates a highlight for the building.
The understanding of structure, attention to detail, RFR research technology provides the ability to design small but high quality models.
Large-Span Structure
Whether horizontal or vertical, large-span structures fall outside of the usual structural approach, and involve their own particular logic in a highly-developed mastery of engineering and constructional techniques. Structural audacity and computational rigor, and the use of specialist applications such as dynamic analysis or the use of wind-tunnel testing, all enable RFR to optimize the control of forces and to design structures that are not only highly efficient and functional but are also representative of the architectural values of the project.
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Structural research and design is found in works of art that apply intelligent calculations in accordance with architectural forms. Streamlining streamlined diagrams in collaboration with architects will optimize the working efficiency of materials to create a bridge structure architecture suitable to the surrounding land Structureape environment.
A large span bridge and a pedestrian bridge are a combination of materials that create a structure exceeding the span to become an architectural work, integrated into modern urban land Structureapes.