Where is the beauty of metal structure engineering buildings?

In fact, strictly speaking, any architectural shape is basically inseparable from the metal structure, and its stress state and force transmission route are also spatial. The planar structure is simplified for calculation and analysis. Of course, the development history of steel structure engineering and architecture should be synchronized in time. It’s just that with the different historical stages, the degree of development and attention is different. With the development of human industrial civilization and the differentiation of professions, and influenced by the industrial revolution, the division of labor between construction and steel structure engineering has also deepened. But in fact, buildings and metal structures are connected in many ways, and there is no way to separate them completely.

With the rapid development of social production, life, culture, education, and science and technology, the relationship between science, society, and art has become increasingly close, and now there has been a trend of the three interpenetrating each other. Steel structure engineering is more and more based on science, the more it reveals a higher ideal, the more beautiful it is. How to integrate and coordinate the three to form an overall unified building, metal structure building has always been the focus of attention and favor. As human beings have higher and higher requirements on the scale and form of architectural space, the spatial, scientific and artistic status and role of steel structure engineering are increasingly revealed.

Any building can be divided into three parts and aspects of construction, structure and equipment according to its constituent functions and professional types of work. Metal structure engineering building is a technical art product of the space environment created by people using certain material materials, and the structural is a load-bearing skeleton composed of steel structure components that meets the functional requirements of the building. Structure is the material basis for the existence of architecture, architecture promotes the development of structure, and structure promotes the innovation of architectural forms. Equipment is to ensure and improve the environmental conditions of people’s production and life, such as water supply and drainage, heating and ventilation, power supply and lighting. All successful buildings are an ingenious and organic combination of architecture, structure and equipment.

The design and construction of any successful building is inseparable from the close cooperation between architects and structural engineers. The beauty of metal structure engineering buildings is jointly created by architects and structural engineers. It is at least a one-sided misunderstanding to attribute the beauty of architecture to the creation of architects, and it is even more a misunderstanding for structural engineers to exclude themselves from the creation of beauty.

Only when architects and structural engineers cooperate tacitly and work together to create beauty, the beauty of steel structure engineering buildings can be more complete, more moving and more lasting. The carrier of steel structure building beauty is steel structure and materials. The beauty of a metal structure engineering buildings are inseparable from the material support system of the structure, just as the beauty of a person cannot be separated from the upright skeleton.