Global BIM Awards 2024
It's been a year since our project 'House of Culture and Sports' in Zuidwolde won the Construsoft BIM Award. Because we won, we are now also participating in the Global BIM Awards and voting is open again (until September 30): House for culture and sport | Tekla
The facade undulates around the building, so no part is the same. To ensure the dimensions of all unique parts, we paid a lot of attention to making smart connections between parts in Tekla. For example with cut mortise and tenon joints.
One of the most difficult connections is mounting the wooden slats on the aluminum frames. This connection has a number of requirements:
- A slat is almost never parallel to the frame (there is always a small angle twist);
- The contact surface between the wood and the aluminum must be kept to a minimum;
- Finally, the center-to-center distance of the slats varies.
To be able to meet these requirements in one connection, we opted for a laser-cut comb-shaped plate. This plate reduces the contact surface between wood and aluminum, allows angular rotation and determines the position of the wooden slat in relation to the aluminum. This makes the assembly of the slats easier. All the complexity is in the cut part.