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Mutsuro Sasaki: Train Station Florence

in his collaboration with the architect Arata Isozaki on the 2002 design competition for a new train station for Florence, Italy, the Japanese structural engineer Mutsuro Sasaki reversed his traditional role. He started with what he calls the target values for stress and deformation loads, and then worked back to the final structure. Instead of taking a given form and optimizing its structural conditions based on calculated stress loads, Sasaki generated an otherwise unknowable form by applying those target values on individual components of the structure. Each application rippled through the structure until a definitive form emerged.

Source: Archecord    

(Rendering courtesy Arata Isozaki and Associates)

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