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This article takes

us through two of

using flexible spacers for
the most recent several reasons.”
More than 20 years have
projects carried passed since the CAD soft-
ware CATIA was used for
out by Edgetech a prestigious building for
the first time in the design
Europe with its of the titanium outer skin
for the Guggenheim Mu-
®
Super Spacer seum in Bilbao. This soft-
ware, which was originally
system. Firstly for developed for the aircraft
is
sector,
construction
glass facades eight now also irreplaceable in
the glass architecture field.
metres high and “One can justifiably claim
that complex buildings
more than 20 metres such as Zaha Hadid’s ‘The
Opus’ or even the ‘Muse-
um of the Future’, which is
wide, concave still under construction in
Dubai, could not have been
and convex, in the realised without digital
planning tools,” explains
reconstruction of Johannes von Wenserski,
authorised signatory at
the Gustave Eiffel Edgetech Europe GmbH.
The company based in
Pavilion and the Heinsberg is therefore par-
ticularly proud of the fact it
Ferrié Pavilion is the first choice for such
projects.
in Paris; and the GLASS FACADES WITH

DOUBLE BENDS ON
‘Museum of the THE EIFFEL TOWER
Future’, currently The graduate mathema-
tician Zaha Hadid knew
under construction what type of burdens she
could subject her designs
in Dubai. too. Other architects are
increasingly using the help
of mathematicians to re-
alise complex shapes. The
relatively recent discipline
in many cases,” explains Heinsberg on the outskirts are exclusively installed as of architectural geometry
Joachim Stoss, Manag- of Düsseldorf. “The re- unique items. Thousands also played a role in the
ing Director of the Ger- linquishment of the right of individual insulating last renovation of the Eiffel
man Edgetech Europe angle means that glass ele- glass units for a single Tower, which was complet-
GmbH company based in ments in organic buildings building are only feasible ed in 2014. One of the key

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