For the first time in the history of the SCIA User Contest, this ninth edition – “The Art of Structural Design” - introduces a new contest prize for which everyone will be able to vote on any number of their favourite projects.
Bernard Tschumi scooped away the 2015 A+Award in the Halls and Theaters category. The juxtaposition of deference and playfulness was put into practice with the arcing steel dome of the Paul and Henri Carnal Hall, a concert venue in Tschumi’s native Switzerland.
A structural engineer is sometimes confronted with geometries that are more complex than a flat slab on some columns: this can be the case for organic shapes, for intricate steel joists, etc.
For a few years SCIA has been allowing every enrolled structural engineering student, postgraduate or professor to download a completely free copy of SCIA Engineer and SCIA Design Forms.
One hundred years ago, the architects Frank Lloyd Wright, Berlage and Rietveld became famous with building projects based on simple shapes, light materials and colorful patterns.