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Cubierta Voronoi, ETFE roof

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General information

  • Home page
    https://www.3dtex.de/cubiera-voronoi-en
  • Location address
    San Pedro Garza Garcia, Monterrey
  • Location country
    Mexico
  • Year of construction
    2015
  • Function of building
    Public spaces
  • Degree of enclosure
    Open structure
  • Climatic zone
    Tropical - hot and wet all year
  • Number of layers
    double-layer
  • Type of application of the membrane
    covering
  • Primary function of the tensile structure
    • Rain protection
    • Sun protection

Description

Cubierta voronoi is the first ETFE roof in the history of Mexico. The project was concepted to be the meeting point of the new shopping mall in the neighbourhood of San Pedro Garza Garcia, Monterrey.

 The structure consist of a tree-like steel masts which support a “honeycomb” covering steel structure. The panels of the honey were covered by ETFE cushions, this are transparent on the bottom and white on the top. The first project, so its name, was a Voronoi structure, i.e., the surface descripted by the roof was divided into panels by the algorithm developed by Mr. Voronoi. This gave a very nice and aesthetic structure, but far away to be built with the budget and time propose by the client. Because of this we rethink and redesign the project, to be able to achieve the schedule and budget proposed the client.

In this way was designed a free form steel roof which was divided into a honeycomb structure. The big achievement of this design was to build the freeform roof only with 5 different cushions. In this way all the production process was accelerated and cost for the construction and planning were reduced. Also the assembly process was standardized, and the whole 100 cushion (1.600 sqm) were mounted in only 12 days.

Description of the environmental conditions

Material of the cover

  • Cable-net/Fabric/Hybrid/Foil
    Foil
  • Type (code)
    NOWOFLON® ET 6235Z

Main dimensions and form

  • Form single element
    Synclastic

Duration of use

  • Temporary or permanent structure
    Permanent

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