We present to you our final report as part of the Technoledge: Structural Design course for the design of a northern lights observatory in Iceland. Over the course of ten weeks we gained a broad spectrum of knowledge about glass structure, ranging from properties to manufacturing to structural verification of connections. This report reflects these different aspects of designing with glass.
We start off with the design of our building, sharing our vision and restrictions we placed on ourselves. After that we look into manufacturing, both of the various glass components and the assembly of the structure as a whole. We also take a brief look into safety analysis and sustainability.
The meat of the report is the structural design, in which we schematize the building to a hand-calculatable frame. The hand calculations give us values to verify our structural elements, adjusting them if needed. These values will also serve as an input to size our connections. Connection design is the last functional chapter of the
