BDS / SHoP Construction
Earlier this year ASI Limited, the facade contractor for Barclays Center, flipped the switch on for their custom built 2500′ linear conveyor system designed to accelerate the weathering process for the 12,000 individual panels and supporting rails that make up the weathering steel portion of the facade designed by SHoP Architects. To arrive at this milestone, SHoP Construction began working under contract with ASI Limited in the summer of 2010. A transfer of design information immediately began taking place between SA and SC where essentially the surface or wireframe model as we call it, began to go through a series of automated processes resulting in both the folded and unfolded panel geometry complete with material thickness, fastener locations and a 2d output that includes pdfs for the fabrication ticket and the cut files for each panel nested by SC delivered directly to the water jet on ASI’s shop floor. The result of this collaboration is now hanging on the line…weathering.
