Museum Design Mirrors Swiss Artist it Honours

This Article talks about a new museum built in Bern, Switzerland. It comprises of three large steel and glass undulations to create the form. It gains relevance as it talks about how steel was the only possible choice for materials. As steel could adequately account for the diverse stresses the form would experience. this is because steel allows for differences in plate thicknesses without changing material sections. The extremities of the steel arches are stressed together with tiebacks and connected to the floors and the floor slabs to prevent the steel arches slipping apart at the base.







This was taken form "Steel Australia, Vol 20, Num 1, March 2007" page 11