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Atlantic Hotel
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Positioned near the railway tracks and Erfurt’s main station, the tower of the new Atlantic Hotel, alongside an adjacent office tower, serves as a striking landmark in the rapidly growing city, situated along the high-speed rail link between Munich and Berlin. Both towers feature a lower podium clad in locally sourced stone, topped by glazed towers. The upper sections, which cantilever prominently, are supported by internal steel trusses that manage the gravity loads above the sixth floor. The structural system transfers these loads from the facades to the internal steel trusses, ensuring stability and efficiency. Erfurt’s iconic half-timbered houses served as inspiration for the structural concept. Much like the traditional method of reinforcing weaker areas with diagonal elements, the load-bearing design of the façade reflects this approach. A custom-developed algorithm analyzes stress distribution and assigns stiffening elements based on calculated probabilities, responding dynamically to specific stress ratios and optimizing the structure’s performance.Project
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Year Atlantic Hotel
Atlantic Hotels Group
Beckh Vorhammer
Structural Design, Computational Design
Architecture
Schulz und Schulz
Erfurt (DE)
Competition Entry – Recognition
2019