VTB Arena Moscow, Erick van Egeraat, copyright: © Erick van Egeraat, image available at bustler.net |
The architects Erick van Egeraat and Mikhail Posokhin argued in van Egeraat's website that this large-scale project is also a self-sustainable building. The building shape looks like a torus with a beautiful envelope. This envelope will be designed by Bollinger and Grohmann Structural Engineers. This project illustrates an increasing tendency for the use of parametric tools in architecture (and to go further its popularity in architectural field). As Klaus Bollinger, Manfred Grohmann and Oliver Tessmann argued in the July/August 2010 issue of Architectural Design, computational design techniques are changing the role of analysis tools and asks a much more precise collaboration between engineers and architects (to this list, we must include mathematicians, and other fields). Collaborations with engineers such as AKT, Arup or Bollinger and Grohmann show new objectives in construction. I am currently doing research for a new post which key element is parametric model (I am trying to understand the importance of mathematics in architecture). Doing so, I remark this increasing popularity of, not only, parametric tools, but also collaboration with engineers, mathematicians, biologists, and so forth. This popularity puts a lift on the evidence of the potential of parametric tools through descriptions of the process that led to the final product (Hudson, 2008, Proceedings, Conference: Advances in Architectural Geometry 2008, PDF document).
VTB Arena Moscow, Erick van Egeraat. Copyright: © Erick van Egeraat. Image available at bustler.net |
VTB Arena Moscow, Erick van Egeraat. Copyright: © Erick van Egeraat. Image available at bustler.net |
VTB Arena Moscow, Erick van Egeraat. Copyright: © Erick van Egeraat. |
The VTB Arena Moscow may be completed around 2016.
VTB Arena Moscow, Erick van Egeraat. Copyright: © Erick van Egeraat |
Data sheet
Design: 2010
Realisation:
Architects: Erick van Egeraat Architects, Mikhail Posokhin (Mosproekt-2)
Engineers: Bollinger & Grohmann Engineers
Client: VTB - Bank
Gross floor area: 300,000 m2
Video: Copyright © Erick van Egeraat Architects
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