Stonebridge Structure - specialist techniques that address the challenges posed by complex structures

Designing value-engineered component level detail within complex organic shapes, and producing manufacturing drawings for complex components can be both challenging and time-consuming.

Helium3 are specialists in this field, developing highly specialised techniques to rapidly detail complex components in record time and where traditional software's are out of their depth.

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Stonebridge - developing highly customised visualisation techniques for complex projects

Imagine fitting 6000 irregular shaped panels over an equally irregular shaped roof, ensuring correct tessellation, whilst optimising the distance between panels and avoiding clashes! Imagine then having to clearly communicate this complex arrangement to a sub-contractor!

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Wembley Stadium Arch - 'parametric' modelling solutions offering unsurpassed design flexibility

To illustrate the power of our 'parametric' design techniques, Helium3 produced a fully 'parametric' arch. Every aspect of the arch's form could be altered at a touch of a button through 18 distinct control variables. A global design change could be made at a-touch of-a-button, updating all components, related drawings and manufacturing details, offering enormous advantages in terms of flexibility, cost and time over conventional modelling techniques.

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Otis Lifts - Canary Wharf HQ2

A retrospective design exercise. What if, rather than designing the lift structure in standard 2D or 3D drafting packages, we challenged the traditional approach by producing a 3D 'parametric' model?

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Private House, UK - increased flexibility, more optimised designs, reduced timescales and risk

Underlying construction detail is 'driven' by a control surface. Manipulating this surface via control points 'intelligently' updates all underlying construction detail, offering the Architect and Structural Engineer greater freedom to optimise their designs by exploring more solutions in less time and at lower cost.

Sheffield Stadium Roof - dramatically reduce cost and timescales by employing computers, not people

Helium3 are specialists in outperforming traditional drafting by developing computer programming techniques to auto-generate component geometry and production drawings.

Using programs, and not people, allows extensive structures containing thousands of components to be detailed in days and not months, significantly reducing timescales, cost and human error.

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