Hyperbolic paraboloid structures
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English: Buildings or structures with the shape of a Hyperbolic paraboloid
Deutsch: Bauwerke in Form eines Hyperbolischen Paraboloids
The hyperbolic paraboloid is a doubly ruled surface so it may be used to construct a saddle roof from straight beams.
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Hyperbolic paraboloid with parabolas (black) und lines (red, blue). If you cut it horizontally you will get hyperbolas (not shown)
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Hyperbolic paraboloid with lines (black)
Hyperbolic paraboloid roofs[edit]
English: If there is just one hyperbolic paraboloid you call them saddle roofs
Hyperbolic paraboloid concrete shell roofs[edit]
See also category: Thin-shell structures.
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Catalina American Baptist Church, Tucson, USA
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Former exhibition hall with two hyperbolic paraboloids by Ulrich Müther in Rostock, Germany
(1966) -
Restaurant Teepott Warnemünde by Ulrich Müther with three hyp. paraboloids in Rostock, Germany
(1967–1968) -
Wrexham Swimming Baths, a.k.a. Wrexham Waterworld Leisure and Activity Centre, Wrexham, Wales, United Kingdom, 1969
Hyperbolic paraboloid suspension roofs[edit]
See also category: Tensile structures.
The first of all was the Dorton Arena by polish architect Maciej Nowicki. It was a model for many subsequent buildings with the same load-bearing system.
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Dorton Arena, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA, (1952)
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Kongresshalle Berlin by Hugh Stubbins, a bad mixture of structural systems, Partial collapse 1980
(1956–1957) -
Friedrich-Ebert-Halle in Ludwigshafen, Germany by Roland Rainer, concrete suspension roof
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Lee Valley VeloPark a.k.a. London VeloPark, cycling centre arena, Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, East London, United Kingdom, 2011
Hyperbolic paraboloid structures[edit]
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The hyperbolic paraboloid is a doubly ruled surface, and thus can be used to construct a saddle roof from straight beams.
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A saddle roof is a hyperbolic paraboloid, that mathematically, as a doubly ruled surface, can be constructed from two rows of straight beams.
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Pringles are examples of hyperbolic paraboloids.
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Stackable Pringles chips.
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Stackable Pringles chip.
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Stackable Pringles chips and reflection.