Shading Roof: Porta Genova Station in Milan

Final project of the degree course in Building Systems Engineering at the Politecnico di Milano, for the course of Prof. Ruta, "Integrated Building Design". It is a preliminary project for the renovation of the Porta Genova railway station in Milan, Italy.

Author	Leonardo Silvestri, Gianluca Contini, Prof. Matteo Francesco Ruta
University	Polytechnic University of Milan, Italy

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Shading Roof of Porta Genova Station in Milan

In particular, our efforts were directed towards the technological and structural design of the shading roof depicted in the photographs.
The integration of the parametric design, created with Rhino/Grasshopper software, into the structural design was achieved rapidly and efficiently through the use of the Dlubal RFEM 6 software, due to the seamless integration between the two software programs. Furthermore, the design of steel tubular elements was performed using the "Steel Design" add-on, while load modeling was facilitated by the utilization of load transfer surfaces, a highly beneficial feature given the expansive surface area of the structure.
Ultimately, the constrained ground reactions were extracted for the purpose of joint sizing.

Presentation of Prefabrication of Shading Roof Structure

Presentation of Structural Ssolution for Shading Roof of Porta Genova Station in Milan

Visualization of Shading Roof at Porta Genova Station in Milan

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