Presentation and analysis of geometric structures of contemporary buildings in the world architecture

Abstract

The key-role in architectural design of contemporary buildings certainly lays in geometry of their structure. The compliance of construction technologies and materials brought variety of attractive 3D structures, the ones with simple geometry, as well as the other with complex geometric properties. This work presents several architectural achievements of exceptional aesthetics and design and discusses their geometric structures. Four 3D structures, generated from the surface hyperbolic-paraboloid, are chosen to present architectural designs, of famous architect Felix Candela, well known in the architecture of the world.