In December 2016, a 322-square-meter timber-and-steel structure named "Gulliver" opened above the DOX Centre for Contemporary Art in Prague, its arched form evoking an airship suspended over the museum's plaza.
Fourteen larch-wood trussed arches, spaced 2.2-3.0 meters apart, converge at a steel ring apex and are wrapped in an ETFE membrane "umbrella" for weather protection, while two steel truss columns on pile foundations carry the roughly 49-ton structure. Designed by architects Martin Rajni&scaron; and David Kub&iacute;k with structural engineer Zbyněk &Scaron;růtek, Gulliver hosts DOX's literary events and is heated for year-round use.

Gulliver, a 322 sqm timber-steel airship structure above Prague's DOX Centre, was engineered in RFEM across 11,492 members and 976 load combinations.

Gulliver Wooden Airship at DOX Centre Prague Case Study

Wooden Airship Gulliver Above DOX Centre in Prague, Czech Republic

The structural analysis program RFEM is the basis of a modular software system. The main program RFEM is used to define structures, materials, and loads for planar and spatial structural systems consisting of plates, walls, shells and members. The program also allows you to create combined structures as well as model solid and contact elements. RFEM provides deformations, internal forces, stresses, support forces, and soil contact stresses. The corresponding add-on modules facilitate data input by automatic generation of structures and connections or can be used to perform further analyses and designs according to various standards.

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Wooden Airship Gulliver Above DOX Centre in Prague, Czech Republic

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