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Curved, vertical walls?!

Anonymous
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Okay so attached you'll see the Jubilee building located in Rome, Italy. I'm actually going to do a precedent study on this building and hoping I can learn how to construct it in ArchiCAD. Basically the issue is the walls, which I really don't have any idea of how I should go about constructing them or if its even possible.

I've seen this building built in programs that have been rendered by Artlantis, but I'm thinking it was done in Sketch-up or something.

Anyways, can anyone steer me in the right direct on constructing these walls?

Many thanks in advance for your help!

jubilee1.jpg
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Dwight
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For a schematic curtain wall, make a wall of thin glass and place columns and beams into it.
Dwight Atkinson
Anonymous
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The curtain walls look pretty straight forward (and easily done with the cw tool). The harder bits are those compound curved shells. But they shouldn't be too hard (if they don't have to be exact). Use a curved (in section) profile wall on a curved (in plan) path. The sloping tops are the parts that need SEOs.