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Eight 47 m Girders and a Tower That Helps Pay for Them: Kriens' Pilatus Arena
Eight 47 m steel girders, a 10 m cantilever and 372 homes that help fund the hall: HAUS-9 reads Kriens' Pilatus Arena and Tower in one section.
The World Ends on Friday the 13th. Please Bring Your Curve's Fitted Range.
In 1960 Science dated doomsday to 13 November 2026. Why von Foerster's hyperbola worked, and why every fitted formula in your office needs its data range.
Gaussian Curvature from Zero: The One Number Bending Cannot Change, and Why UnrollSrf Says No
Gauss's 1827 Theorema Egregium: K = k1·k2, why only zero-curvature panels unroll flat, and how to sort a facade by K in Rhino and Grasshopper.
The Shape a Soap Film Already Knows: Minimal Surfaces from Lagrange to Frei Otto
Why a soap film finds the least-area surface: zero mean curvature, Plateau's 120° law, and how Frei Otto carried it to Lausanne 1964 and Munich 1972.
Thirty-Four Piles, One Slab: How Chavannes' C4 Drum Lifts a Simulation Hospital Off the Ground
How C4, a 56 m concrete drum in Chavannes-près-Renens, frees its ground floor: 34 bored piles, a jointless 360 m raft and one prestressed transfer slab.
Two Folded Tripods, One Possible Shape: Resch Origami Locks Into a 7 m Aluminium Shell
MIT CBA, Bologna, Innsbruck and Tokyo fold CNC-cut aluminium into Resch tripod cells that lock rigid. A 7 m shell, built in days with screwdrivers.
Creative Factory, Renens: Saw Open the Slab, Keep the Mushroom Columns, Pave the Park
Bauart and Patrimonium turned a 1950s Coop warehouse in Renens into 51 homes: a sawn atrium, kept mushroom columns, cut concrete reused as park paving.
Aperiodic Tiling: How a Few Tile Types Cover a Plane Without Ever Repeating
From Wang and Penrose to quasicrystals and the 2023 hat and Spectre: how few tile types build non-repeating façades and paving, plus a GhPython hack.
Draw the Force, Find the Form: Graphic Statics from Culmann's Zürich to Rhino
Graphic statics from first principles: how a closing force polygon proves equilibrium, from Culmann's ETH Zürich and Maillart to a force diagram in Rhino.
Kantonsschule Wattwil: The Toggenburg Forest Became the Floors of Its Own Valley's School
Gunz & Künzle's Kantonsschule Wattwil opened 10 August 2026: CLT ribbed slabs tied to concrete cores, built from 3,623 m³ of mostly Toggenburg timber.
