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The present paper stems from the research we are developing in our Ph.D. work. From the study of concrete examples, we are particularly interested in understanding the impact that, in the last 25 years, the technological innovations and changes in aesthetic paradigms and spatial concepts had in architecture, interfering in the way Geometry, as a support tool for design, composition and construction of architectural objects, is used in the creative act. In this sense, the present study proposes a specific reading of the work of Herzog & de Meuron (HdM). Through the analysis of the recent project for the new Stamford Bridge Stadium in London, we intend to recognize which geometry lays behind the architectural forms, in order to gauge its role in the construction of the project and understand how new technologies can become a driving force in the exploration of this design tool.
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As considered by Adrian Gheorghiu and Virgil Dragomir “the conoid is a ruled surface of which the directrices are one curve and two straight lines, either both at a finite distance (general conoid), or one at a finite distance and other at infinity (directing plane conoid)” [6].
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The author wishes to thank the office of Herzog & de Meuron for the support.
Assignment co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) through the COMPETE 2020—Operational Programme Competitiveness and Internationalization (POCI) and national funds by the FCT under the POCI-01-0145-FEDER-007744 project.
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Castro, A. (2020). Geometry and Digital Technologies in the Architecture of Herzog & de Meuron. The Project for the Stamford Bridge Stadium in London. In: Viana, V., Murtinho, V., Xavier, J. (eds) Thinking, Drawing, Modelling. Geometrias 2017. Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics, vol 326. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-46804-0_2
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